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  • RAABE, Christine Henriette

    RAABE, Christine Henriette. Utrecht 1878 — Utrecht 17.2.1959. Dutch Student of Indology. Daughter of Adam Hendrik Raabe and Christina Henriette Raabe (née Marth). ...

  • RABE, Carl

    RABE, Carl. Breslau 1814 — 18??. German Student of Indology. Son of a farmer, educated in Breslau. Ph.D. Breslau 1845 (under Stenzler). Could ...

  • RABEL, Lili

    RABEL, Lili (after 1969 Lili Rabel Heymann). 1913 — California 1985. German-born Linguist in Canada. Ph.D. Berkeley. At University of Calgary (1976). Married 1969 Frederic G. Heymann (1900–1983, a historian), survived him.

    Publications: Wrote ...

  • RABIN, Chaim

    RABIN, Chaim Menachem. Giessen 22.11.1915 — Jerusalem 13.5.1996. Israeli (born in Germany) Linguist and Semitic Scholar. Son of Israel and Martle Rabin. In ...

  • RADCLIFFE-BROWN, Alfred Reginald

    RADCLIFFE-BROWN, Alfred Reginald (born A. R. Brown). Birmingham 17.1.1881 — London 24.10.1955. British Anthropologist. Son of Alfred Brown (d.1886), a manufacturer’s clerk, and ...

  • RAE, George Milne

    RAE, George Milne. Aberdeenshire 2.9.1840 — Edinburgh 24.3.1917. British (Scottish) Missionary in South India. Son of John Rae and Isobel Milne. Studies at Aberdeen. Taught at Madras Christian College and Madras ...

  • RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford

    RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford (Sir Stamford). on sea near Jamaica 6.7.1781 — near London 5.7.1826. British Colonial Servant and Scholar. Born on board of ...

  • RAGOZIN, Zenaide Alekseevna

    RAGOZIN, Zenaide Alekseevna (born Zenaida Alekseevna Verderevskaja). Rjazan govt. 16.6.1838 (1835?) — Leningrad 18.5.1924. Russian Traveller and Authoress of Popular Histories in the ...

  • RAHDER, Johannes

    RAHDER, Johannes. Loeboeg Begalong (Lubuk Begalung), Sumatra 27.12.1898 — 3.3.1988. Dutch Japanologist and Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Born in Indonesia ...

  • RAHMANN, Rudolph

    RAHMANN, Rudolph. Niederense, Westfalen 20.9.1902 — Troisdorf, Kr. Rhein-Sieg 23.9.1985. SVD. German Ethnologist. Roman Catholic Priest. Studies in the Netherlands and at Missionshaus ...

  • RALSTON, William Ralston Shedden

    RALSTON, William Ralston Shedden (born W. R. Shedden). London 4.4.1828 — London 6.8.1889. British Author, Translator and Russian Philologist. Son of William Patrick Ralston Shedden, a wealthy merchant who had long been ...

  • RAMOS DE ANDRES, Justo

    RAMOS DE ANDRÉS, Justo. 1904 — 1965. Spanish Linguist. Ph.D. Taught Sanskrit in Madrid from 1934 and still in the late 1950s.

  • RAMPOLLA DEL TINDARO, Mariano

    RAMPOLLA DEL TINDARO, Mariano. 1893 — 1945. Monsignor. Italian Indologist. Born in a Sicilian noble family. Student of O. Nazari at ...

  • RAMSAY, E. Wardlaw

    RAMSAY, E. Wardlaw. 18?? — 19??. Miss. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Worked many years among Korkus in Central India. E. Stock, History of the Church Missionary Society. Suppl. vol. L. 1916, ...

  • RAMSAY, Horatio Nelson

    RAMSAY, Horatio Nelson. London 13.12.1805 — Malligaum, New South Wales 20.5.1847. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Thomas R. and Jane Sills. Served in Bombay Native Infantry, later went to ...

  • RAMSAY, William

    RAMSAY, William. 15.6.1834 — 20.6.1867?. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Sir George R. and Emily Eugenia Lennon. In Bombay Civil Service. In 1866 in Baitul, Central India (Betul ...

  • RAMSTEDT, G. John

    RAMSTEDT, Gustaf John. Tammisaari 22.10.1873 — Helsinki 25.11.1950. Finnish Altaic Scholar. Son of Gustaf Adolf R. and Edla Matilda ...

  • RANDLE, Herbert Niel

    RANDLE, Herbert Niel. Bombay 19.10.1880 — 8.7.1973. British Indologist. Civil servant (teacher) in ...

  • RANKE, Kurt

    RANKE, Kurt. Blankenburg, Harz 14.4.1908 — Stadensen bei Uelzen 6.6.1985. German Germanist and Folklore Scholar interested in IE Linguistics. Professor in Kiel and ...

  • RANKING, George S. A.

    RANKING, George Speirs Alexander. Hastings, Sussex 1.1.1852 — Caversham, Berkshire 14.6.1934. British Physician and Oriental Scholar in India. Son of Robert and Isabella R. Educated in Cambridge, studied medicine in London. In 1875-1905 ...

  • RAPSON, Edward James

    RAPSON, Edward James. Leicester 12.5.1861 — Cambridge 3.10.1937. British Indologist. Professor in Cambridge. ...

  • RASK, Rasmus

    RASK, Rasmus Kristian (bapt. Rasmus Christian Rasch). Brændekilde near Odense 22.11.1787 — Copenhagen 14.11.1832. Danish Linguist and Traveller, also interested in ...

  • RASMUSSEN, Harald

    RASMUSSEN, Harald. Haderslev 28.8.1853 — Copenhagen 25.12.1904. Danish Schoolteacher and Oriental Scholar. Son of Harald Valdemar R., a minister and scholar of Danish, ...

  • RAU, Heimo

    RAU, Heimo. Breslau 30.12.1912 — Filderstadt, Kr. Esslingen 30.12.1993. German Art Historian and Indologist. Long time in India. Son of Stadtbaurat ...

  • RAU, Wilhelm

    RAU, Adolf Wilhelm Ludwig. Gera 15.2.1922 — Gera 29.12.1999. German Indologist. Professor in Marburg. Son of Rudolf Rau, a schoolteacher, and ...

  • RAVENSHAW, Edward Cockburn

    RAVENSHAW, Edward Cockburn. Mangalore 1804 —?.4.1877. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Goldsborough R. (1777–1840), later the chairman of E.I.C., and Hannah ...

  • RAVERTY, Henry George

    RAVERTY, Henry George. Falmouth, Cornwall 31.5.1825 — Grampound Road, Cornwall 20.10.1906. British Colonial ...

  • RAWLINSON, George

    RAWLINSON, George. Chadlington, Oxfordshire 23.11.1812 — Canterbury 6.10.1902. Rev. Canon. British Classical Scholar and Historian. Son of Abraham Tyson R. and Eliza Creswicke, ...

  • RAWLINSON, Henry Creswicke

    RAWLINSON, Henry Creswicke (Sir Henry). Chadlington Park, Oxfordshire 11.4.1810 — London 5.3.1895. Bart. British Pioneer of Near Eastern Archaeology. Son of ...

  • RAWLINSON, Hugh George

    RAWLINSON, Hugh George. Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire 12.5.1880 — Isle of Wight 8.6.1957. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of ...

  • RAWSON, Joseph Nadin

    RAWSON, Joseph Nadin. Hyson Green Radford, Nottinghamshire 8.5.1880 — Calcutta 19.4.1940. British Scholar of Religion. Son of Joseph R. ...

  • RAWSON, Philip S.

    RAWSON, Philip Stanley. Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire 13.1.1924 — 6.11.1995. British Artist and Art Historian. Son of Stanley Walter Rawson, an industrialist, and Phyllis ...

  • REA, Alexander

    REA, Alexander. Dundee 17.10.1858 — Bangalore 4.2.1921 (or 1924?). British (Scottish) Archaeologist and Photographer in India. Son of David Rea and ...

  • RECZEK, Józef

    RECZEK, Józef. 16.2.1936 — 13.2.1988. Polish Indo-European, Slavonic and Iranian Linguist. Studies at Cracow in 1953-59. Taught at Cracow University as Docent.

  • REES, John David

    REES, John David. London 16.12.1854 — London 2.6.1922. First Baronet (1919). British Civil Servant in India. Son of Lodwich William Rees and Ann ...

  • REEVE, William

    REEVE, William. 1794 — Bristol 1850. Rev. British Missionary in India. Born in Northern England. Ordained 1816, married and left for India. Worked ...

  • REGAMEY, Constantin

    REGAMEY, Constantin (Konstanty). Kiev (now Kyiv in Ukraina) 15.(28.)1.1907 — Lausanne 27.12.1982. Polish/Swiss Indologist, Tibetan and Buddhist Scholar and Componist. Professor in ...

  • REGEL, Albert (von)

    REGEL,  Johann Albert von (Russian Ioann-Al’bert Regel’). Zürich 12.12.1845 — Odessa 6.7.1908. Swiss Physician, Botanist and Exporer in Russia. Son of Eduard R. (1815–1892, 1873 Russian title of nobility), a garden architect and ...

  • REGNAUD, Paul

    REGNAUD, Paul. Mantoche (Haute-Saône) 19.4.1838 — Sanary-sur-Mer (Var) 18.11.1910. French Indologist. Professor in Lyon. Son of a court clerk. Studies at ...

  • RÉGNIER, Adolphe

    RÉGNIER, Jacques-Auguste-Adolphe. Mainz 7.7.1804 — Fontainebleau 20.10. 1884. French Indologist. Born in a ...

  • REHATSEK, Edward

    REHATSEK, Edward (Ede). Illack (now Ilok in Croatia) 3.7.1819 — Bombay 11.12.1891. Hungarian Oriental Scholar in India. Son of the forest inspector of princess ...

  • REICHELT, Hans

    REICHELT, Hans (Johann). Baden bei Wien 20.4.1877 — Ibid. 11/12.5.1939. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Graz. Son of Leo R., the ...

  • REINAUD, Joseph-Toussaint

    REINAUD, Joseph-Toussaint. Lambesc (Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence) 4.12.1795 — Paris 14.5.1867. Abbé. French Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar and Historian. Professor in Paris. ...

  • RELAND, Adriaan (Hadrianus Relandus)

    RELAND, Adriaan (Hadrianus Relandus, Reelant). De Rijp, North Holland 17.7.1676 — Utrecht 5.2.1718. Dutch Oriental Scholar. Professor in Utrecht. Son of Johannes R., ...

  • REMPIS, Christian

    REMPIS, Christian Herrnhold. 18.8.1901 — 4.6.1972. German Iranian and Persian Scholar. Professor in Tübingen. In 1921-32 worked as schoolteacher, then studies at Tübingen ...

  • REMUSAT

    REMUSAT —> ABEL-REMUSAT.

  • REMY, Arthur Frank Joseph

    REMY, Arthur F. J. Elberfeld near Wuppertal 26.6.1871 — 24.10.1954. U.S. (of German Origin) Germanic Scholar interested in Indo-Iranian. ...

  • RENAUDOT, Eusèbe

    RENAUDOT, Eusèbe. Paris 20.7.1646 — Paris 1.9.1720. Abbé. French Theologian and Oriental Scholar. Born as the eldest of the 14 children of a ...

  • RENEL, Charles

    RENEL, Charles Ulysse. Strasbourg 6.5.1866 — Tananarive 9.9.1925. French Philologist. Son of Émile R., a railway official, and Uranie Lafite (D. 1878). After Franco-Prussian war the family moved to Épinal (Vosges). From ...

  • RENNEL, James

    RENNEL, James. Chudleigh, Devonshire 3.12.1742 — London 29.3.1830. British Colonial Officer and Geographer in India. Son of Captain John R. (of artillery), who died in ...

  • RENOU, Louis

    RENOU, Louis Marie Joseph. Paris 28.10.1896 — Vernon (Eure) 18.8.1966. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. School and studies in Paris. The ...

  • RËRIH

    RËRIH —> ROERICH.

  • REUTER, Julio Natanael

    REUTER, Julio Natanael. Turku 7.1.1863 — Helsinki 9.1.1934. Finnish Indologist. Professor in Helsinki. Son of the school director Edvin Titus Feodor ...

  • REVILLA Y MORENO, Manuel de la

    REVILLA Y MORENO, Manuel de la. Madrid 24(26?).10.1846 — El Escorial 13.9.1881. Spanish Literate, Poet, Literary Historian, Philosopher. Studies ...

  • RÉVILLE, Albert

    RÉVILLE, Albert. Dieppe 3/4.11.1826 — Paris 25.10.1906. French Theologian and Scholar of Religion, a Protestant Priest. Professor in Paris. Son of Rev. Jean ...

  • REYNOLDS, M. C.

    REYNOLDS, M. C. 1??? — 1???. Mrs. “An old resident”. We may perhaps conclude that she was married with an officer or civil servant and therefore probably a Britishwoman.

    Publications: Household Hindustani. A Manual for New-comers, ...

  • RHEEDE TOT DRAKENSTEIN, Hendrik Adrian van

    RHEEDE TOT DRAKENSTEIN, Hendrik Adrian van. Utrecht 13.4.1636 — on sea off Bombay 15.12.1691. Dutch Colonial Administrator and Botanist. Son of Ernst van Rheede and Elisabeth van Utenhove (d. 1637), a noble ...

  • RHENIUS, Karl

    RHENIUS, Karl Theophilus Ewald (Charles Theophilus/Gottlieb E. Rh.). Graudenz, West Prussia (now Grudziądz in Poland) 5.11.1790 — Tirunelvēli/Palayamkottai 5.6.1838. German Missionary and Tamil ...

  • RHODE, Johann Gottlieb

    RHODE, Johann Gottlieb.1762 — 23.8.1827. German Literate, Teacher and Dramatist. Studies at Helmstedt, then worked as tutor in Marienthal, Braunschweig and Estonia. In 1789-97 living in Göttingen, then in Hamburg and soon in ...

  • RHYS DAVIDS, Caroline Augusta Foley

    RHYS DAVIDS, Caroline Augusta Foley. ...

  • RHYS DAVIDS, Thomas William

    RHYS DAVIDS, Thomas William. Colchester, Essex 12.5.1843 — Chipstead, ...

  • RHYS, Ernest

    RHYS, Ernest Percival. Islington, London 17.6.1859 — London 25.5.1946. British Publisher and Poet. Son of John Rees (as he wrote it) of Wales and Emma Percival. The family moved soon to Carmarthen ...

  • RIBBACH, Samuel H.

    RIBBACH, Samuel Heinrich. Hebron, Labrador 10.2.1863 — 31.5.1943. German Missionary. In 1892-1913 served Moravian Mission in Lahul and later in Leh, Ladakh, to 1927. Back in Germany worked worked in Museum für ...

  • RIBEIRO, João

    RIBEIRO, João. Baptized Lisbon 17.5.1622 — ?.11.1693. Portuguese Officer in South Asia. Son of a cap-maker. Left for India as private soldier in ...

  • RIBEZZO, Francesco

    RIBEZZO, Francesco. Francavilla Fontana near Brindisi 8.5.1875 — Lecce, Apulia 19.10.1952. Italian IE Scholar. Professor in Palermo. Educated in Lecce, studies at Naples ...

  • RICCAZ, Alexis

    RICCAZ, Alexis. Saint-Jean-d’Arves (Savoie) 26.1.1834 — Nagpur 8.9.1892. Monseigneur. French Catholic Missionary in India. Ordained in 1861 as priest of Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy and arrived in India ...

  • RICE, Benjamin H.

    RICE, Benjamin Holt. 28.5.1814 — Bangalore ?.2.1887. Rev. British Missionary in South India, a Kannada Scholar. Son of wool merchant Simon Peter Rice. ...

  • RICE, Benjamin L.

    RICE, Benjamin Lewis. Bangalore 17.7.1837 — 10.7.1927. British Schoolteacher, Historian and Indologist in India. Born in South India, where his father, ...

  • RICE, Carlton C.

    RICE, Carlton Cosmo. 1876 — 1945. U.S. Linguist. Studies at University of Texas (A.B. 1897, M.A. 1899) and Harvard (A.M. 1900). Ph.D. 1902 Harvard. Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at University ...

  • RICE, Edward P.

    RICE, Edward Peter. Bangalore 1849 — 11.12.1936. Rev. British Missionary and Scholar of Kannaḍa, in India. The youngest son of —> ...

  • RICE, Henry

    RICE, Henry. 1846 — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in South India. Son of —> Benjamin H. Rice. Studies and ordination in London. Worked ...

  • RICE, Stanley P.

    RICE, Stanley P. 1869 — 1944. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Sanskrit. Served 19 years in Madras, retired before ...

  • RICHARDS, Frederick John

    RICHARDS, Frederick John. 26.6.1875 — 19??. British Civil Servant and Archaeologist in India. Son of John R. and his wife Sarah. M.A. Joined I.C.S. in 1898, served in Madras Presidency. Long time ...

  • RICHARDS, Glyn

    RICHARDS, Glyn. Rhymney, Wales 6.8.1923 — 2003. Rev. British (Welsh) Philosopher and Scholar of Religion. Son of Thomas R. and Rose Jones. Studies at University of Wales (B.A. 1950), Oxford (M.Litt. ...

  • RICHARDSON, David

    RICHARDSON, David Thomas. Langholm, Dumfriesshire 176? — on sea ?.11.1808. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Gilbert Richardson (d. 1783) and Susanna Scott (d. 1775). Like several of his brothers ...

  • RICHARDSON, Hugh Edward

    RICHARDSON, Hugh Edward. St.Andrews 22.12.1905 — St.Andrews 3.12.2000. British (Scottish) Tibetologist. Son of an army medical officer, Colonel Hugh R., and ...

  • RICHTER, Oswald

    RICHTER, Paul Oswald. Schneeburg, Sachsen 5.9.1873 — 1907. German Student of Indo-Iranian. Ph.D. 1897 Leipzig (under Brugmann). From 1898 ...

  • RICKMERS, Mrs.

    RICKMERS, Mrs. —> DUFF, C. M.

  • RIDDING, C. Mary

    RIDDING, Caroline Mary. Meriden, Warwickshire 30.8.1862 — Cambridge 9.11.1941. Miss. British Indologist. Daughter ...

  • RIDOUT, J. B. M.

    RIDOUT, John Bertram Mais. Bourne, Cambridgeshire 17.7.1866 — Swanage, Dorset 31.12.1944. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of John Dowell R. and Alician Maria Mais. District Surveyor from 1889, Assistant Superintendent 1897, ...

  • RIEKER, Hans-Ulrich

    RIEKER, Hans-Ulrich. 1.2.1920 — 26.10.1979. German Bauddha and Student of Yoga. An actor. Studies of Yoga under a Guru in India, where he ...

  • RIEU, Charles Pierre Henri

    RIEU, Charles Pierre Henri. Geneva 8.6.1820 — London 19.3.1902. Swiss Indologist and Oriental Scholar in the U.K. Professor of Arabic in ...

  • RIMKA, Albinas

    RIMKA, Albinas. Skerpieviai 16.2.1886 — Vilnius 27.2.1944. Lithuanian Politician, Economist, Statistician and  Tagore Scholar. Educated in Lankeliskiu, studied economics in Germany and Netherlands. ...

  • RINGBOM, Lars-Ivar

    RINGBOM, Lars-Ivar. Turku 23.7.1901 — Turku 21.5.1971. Finnish Art Historian interested in Iranian Mythology. Son of Lars Ivar R., a physician, and Elin Elisabeth Granit. Educated in Turku, also art studies ...

  • RISCH, Ernst

    RISCH, Ernst. Moscow 9.10.1911 — Kilchberg, Zürich 1.9.1988. Swiss IE and Mycenaean Linguist. Professor in Zürich. Born in Russia in a Swiss family, ...

  • RISLEY, Herbert H.

    RISLEY, Herbert Hope. Akeley, Buckinghamshire 4.1.1851 — Wimbledon 30.9.1911. Sir. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of ...

  • RITTER, Pavlo Grigorovič

    RITTER, Pavlo Grigorovič (Russian Pavel Grigor’evič Ritter). Čutove, Poltava obl. 5.4.1872 — 17.4.1939. Ukrainian Indologist, Literary Historian, Critic, etc. Professor in Harkiv. ...

  • RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha

    RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha. Arraiolos, Évora dt. 23.6.1809 — Évora 20.2.1879. Portuguese Physician, Colonial Civil Servant and Oriental Scholar, Specialist ...

  • RIVERO GODOY, Francisco María

    RIVERO GODOY, Francisco María (also R. y Godoy). 18?? — 1???. Spanish Diplomat and Sanskrit Scholar. Son of Nicolás María Rivero, a politician and diplomat. Grew up in Málaga, studied ...

  • RIVERS, W. H. R.

    RIVERS, William Halse Rivers. Luton near Chatham, Kent 12.3.1864 — Cambridge 4.6.1922. British Physician and ...

  • RIVETT-CARNAC, John Henry

    RIVETT-CARNAC, John Henry (Harry). London 16.9.1838 — Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland 11.5.1923. British Colonial Officer and Scholar of Indian Prehistory. ...

  • ROADARMEL, Gordon C.

    ROADARMEL, Gordon Charles. Kharagpur, West Bengal 1932 — Berkeley 15.6.1972. U.S. Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Son of missionary parents, grew up in India, educated ...

  • ROBERTS, Emma

    ROBERTS, Emma. Methley near Leeds 1793? — Poona 16.9.1840. British Journalist and Poet in India. Daughter of Captain William R., who died before her birth, grew up with her mother in ...

  • ROBERTS, Ernest Stewart

    ROBERTS, Ernest Stewart. Swineshead, Lincolnshire 1847 — Cambridge 16.6.1912. Rev. British Linguist. Lecturer in Cambridge. Son of Dr. Stewart Blacker R. and Selina Milson. Educated at Boston ...

  • ROBERTS, Hugh

    ROBERTS, Hugh. Pontyraran, Dolgellau, Merionethshire 23.6.1841 — Ruabon near Wrexham 1916. Rev. British (Welsh) Missionary in India. Ordained priest 1865, a Calvinistic Methodist. Arrived in India with his wife in 1866, ...

  • ROBERTS, Joseph

    ROBERTS, Joseph. Rev. Missionary in Sri Lanka and India, author of “Extracts from the Sakaa Thewan Saasteran, or Book of Fate, tr. from the tamul language by the Rev. J.R.”, ch. ...

  • ROBERTS, R. E.

    ROBERTS, Roger Elliot. 1753? — London 9.8.1831. British Colonial Officer in India. As Major in 1777 visited Burma, in the mid-1780s called Persian interpreter. In 1798 Lieutenant-Colonel, 180? Colonel. Member of ...

  • ROBERTS, S. G.

    ROBERTS, Sydney Gordon. 18?? — 19??. British Civil Servant in South India. In 1899 already there, 1915-18 District Judge ...

  • ROBERTS, T. Theo

    ROBERTS, T. Theo. 17?? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant. His Glossary was intended to help newcomers, consisting mainly of Indian words and names adopted in English usage in ...

  • ROBERTSON, Alexander

    ROBERTSON, Alexander. Dingwall 28.3.1877 — 19??. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of William R. and Margaret Urquhart, educated in Kilmorack, Inverness and Edinburgh. Studies at Aberdeen, M.A. 1898. Worked ...

  • ROBERTSON, Elphinstone Pourtales

    ROBERTSON, Elphinstone Pourtales.1831 — Middlesex 30.1.1912. British Civil Servant in India. Educated at Haileybury. Arrived at Bombay in 1851, worked in Surat, Ahmedabad, Colaba, etc. in Gujarat, from 1869 in Dharwar. ...

  • ROBERTSON, George Scott

    ROBERTSON, George Scott. Southwark, London 22.10.1852 — London 2.1.1916. Sir. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Surgeon Major. Served and travelled in the North-West. Son ...

  • ROBERTSON, William

    ROBERTSON, William. Borthwick, Midlothian 19.9.1721 — Edinburgh 11.6.1793. British (Scottish) Historian. Son of Rev. William R. and Eleanor Pitcairn, educated in Borthwick and ...

  • ROBINSON, Richard H.

    ROBINSON, Richard H. Carstairs, Alberta 21.6.1926 — Madison 6.8.1970. Canadian Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Madison. School in Carstairs, ...

  • ROBINSON, Thomas

    ROBINSON, Thomas. 1790 — Rochester 17.5.1873. Rev. British Clergyman in India. Son of Rev. Thomas R., educated at Rugby. Studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816. Ordained priest 1816 ...

  • ROBINSON, William (civil servant)

    ROBINSON, William. 18?? — 1???. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. In the 1840s Head Assistant Collector of Malabar. In the 1850 commanded Madras Police. Later on, member of Madras Council ...

  • ROBINSON, William (missionary)

    ROBINSON, William. Bencoolen (?) 4.9.1819? — Assam 27.8.1863. British Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Rev. William R. (Olney, Buckinghamshire 18.1.1784 — Dacca 2.9.1853), a shoemaker turned into missionary working in ...

  • ROBINSON, William Henry

    ROBINSON, William Henry.1829? — Edmonton 1910 (when 81) – says JRAS, but the editor’s preface in his book has Westminster 1824 — 1906. Britishman, interested in Indology. Of modest background, grew ...

  • ROBSON, John

    ROBSON, John. Lasswade, Midlothian 14.1.1836 — Aberdeen 12.8.1908, when 72. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Dr. John R. and Agnes Renton. M.A. D.D. United Presbyterian Missionary in Ajmer ...

  • ROCA Y LÓPEZ, Pedro.

    ROCA Y LÓPEZ, Pedro.Tarancón (Cuenca) 9.10.1856 — Madrid 21.1.1903. Spanish Scholar. Dr. In Sanskrit student of Gelabert y Gordiola, as librarian of Barcelona University gave first Sanskrit teaching there. Later ...

  • ROCCA, Vittorio

    ROCCA, Vittorio. Leghorn 1.10.1862 — 19??. Italian Indologist. Docent in Rome. Studies at Pisa. From 1905 libera docenza in sanscrito at ...

  • ROCK, Joseph Francis

    ROCK, Joseph Francis Charles (Josef Franz Karl). Vienna 13.1.1884 — Honolulu 5.12.1962. Austrian-born U.S. Botanist, Geographer and Central Asian Scholar. Son of the ...

  • ROCKHILL, W. W.

    ROCKHILL, William Woodville. Philadelphia, Pa. 1.4.1854 — Honolulu 8.12.1914. U.S. Diplomat, Traveller, Sinologist ...

  • RODET, Léon

    RODET, Léon. 1832? — 1895. French Oriental Scholar and Historian of Mathematics. Several internet sources (e.g. wikidata) give the impossible 1850 ...

  • RODGERS, Charles James

    RODGERS, Charles James. Wilne Mills, Derbyshire 1838 — Lahore 20.11.1898. British Teacher and Oriental Scholar in India. “Educated at Shardlow and Milford in ...

  • RODRÍGUEZ PINILLA, Tomás

    RODRÍGUEZ (Y) PINILLA, Tomás. Salamanca 2.11.1814 — Madrid 1886. Spanish Historian and Politician. Studied law at Salamanca. Professor at Salamanca.

    RODRIGUEZ, Etienne Alexander

    RODRIGUEZ, Etienne Alexander. 1??? — 1???. Indian? Head Draftsman in the Survey Department, Madras.

    Publications: The Hindoo pantheon, comprising the principal deities worshipped by the natives of British India: being a collection of coloured sketches ...

  • ROE, Charles

    ROE, Charles Arthur. Blandford Forum, Dorset 4.9.1841 — Oxford 28.1.1927. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Bannister Roe and Mary ...

  • ROE, Thomas

    ROE, Thomas. Low Leyton near Wanstead in Essex 1580/81 — Bath 6.11.1644. Sir. British Diplomat in India. Son of Sir Robert Rowe and ...

  • ROEBUCK, Thomas

    ROEBUCK, Thomas. Linlithgowshire ?.12.1784 — Calcutta 8.12.1819. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer and Linguist in India. Son of an iron-works manufacturer, educated at Alloa and Edinburgh. Came to India in 1801 and served ...

  • ROENAU, Ernst

    ROENAU, Ernst —> Ernst ROSENBAUM

  • ROEPSTORFF, Frederik Adolph de

    ROEPSTORFF, Frederik Adolph de. on sea 25.3.1842 — Kamorte, Nicobars 24.10.1883.Danish Scholar and Missionary. Son of sea captain Adolph de Roepstorff and Charlotte Georgiana Holmes, baptized in Cape Town, which gave ...

  • RÖER, Eduard

    RÖER, Johann (Hans) Heinrich Eduard. Braunschweig 26.10.1805 — Braunschweig 17.3.1866. German Indologist in ...

  • ROERICH (Rërih), Nikolai Konstantinovič

    ROERICH, Nicholas (Nikolaj Konstantinovič Rërih). St.Petersburg 9.10.1874 — Naggar, Himachal Pradesh 1.3.1948. Russian Painter, lay Archaeologist, Theosophist and Central Asian Traveller. Father of ...

  • ROERICH, Georg N. (Jurij Nikolaevič Rërih)

    ROERICH, Georg N. (Jurij Nikolaevič Rërih, George Nicolas de Roerich). Okulovka, Valdajskij raion, obl. Novgorod 3.(16.)8.1902 — Moscow 21.5.1960. Russian Tibetologist, ...

  • ROGER, Abraham

    ROGER, Abraham (A. Rogerius). Haarlem (?) 1609 — Gouda 1649. Dutch Reformed Priest in India and Indonesia. Studies at Leiden, in ...

  • ROGERS, Alexander

    ROGERS, Alexander. 1825/26 — 27.11.1910. British Civil Servant and Persian Scholar in India. Educated at Haileybury, in 1845 joined Bombay Civil Service, served in Northern Division. Collector and Magistrate 1860, Commissioner ...

  • ROGERS, E. H.

    ROGERS, E. H. 18?? — 1899?. Head Master of the Lawrence Military Asylum in Sanawar, Himalayas (1858), then Sub-Inspector of Army Schools (1879), retired.

    Publications: How to speak Hindustani, being an ...

  • ROGERS, George Gordon

    ROGERS, George Gordon. Dharamsala ?.4.1893 — Maidenhead, Berkshire ?.5.1966. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of G. W. Rogers, Colonel of Gurkha Rifles. ...

  • ROGERS, Thomas

    ROGERS, Henry Thomas. ?.1.1830 — St.Leonards-on-sea, Sussex ?.11.1898. British Colonial Officer in Burma. In 1848-49 at Addiscombe, then joined ...

  • ROLLAND, Pierre

    ROLLAND, Pierre. Santec (Finistère) 2.5.1940 — 28.5.1974. French Indologist. Studies of Indology and comparative linguistics at Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Göttingen (as Alexander ...

  • ROLLAND, Romain

    ROLLAND, Romain. Clamecy (Nièvre) 29.1.1866 — Vézelay (Yonne) 30.12.1944. French author interested in Indian Thought, Personal Friend of Gandhi and Tagore. Also a ...

  • ROMER, John

    ROMER, John. Ancroft, co. Durham 1780 — 18??. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert R. and Frances Marshall. In 1816/23 he ...

  • RONA, José Pedro

    RONA, José Pedro. Lučenec, Slovakia 20.3.1923 — Rio de Janeiro 16.7.1974. Uruguayan IE Scholar. Born of Hungarian parents in present Slovakia, son of engineer Alejandro Róna and pianist Lea Vajda. Migrated ...

  • RÖNNOW, Kasten

    RÖNNOW, Kasten Anders. Stockholm 24.1.1897 — Uppsala 2.5.1943. Swedish Indologist and Historian of Religions. Son of director August R. and Hilda ...

  • ROOKE, George Harry

    ROOKE, George Harry. 18?? — 19??. British Officer and Theosophist. In 1909 in Adyar. In 1939 Major G.H.R. is ...

  • ROOS-KEPPEL, George

    ROOS-KEPPEL, George Olaf (also referred to as Ross-Keppel). London 7.9.1866 — London 11.12.1921. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Gustaf ...

  • ROSE, Eugen

    ROSE, Eugen. Barmen, Rheinland 4.7.1909 — Erkrath 5.8.2003. German Priest, former Student of Indology. Son of Walter R. (d. 1918) and Caroline Schneider. From 1929 studied Theology and Indology at Marburg, ...

  • ROSE, Horace Arthur

    ROSE, Horace Arthur. East Grinstead, Sussex 25.11.1867 — Saint Brélade, Jersey 18.9.1933. British Civil Servant in India. Son of a merchant. Educated at ...

  • ROSEN, Friedrich (diplomat)

    ROSEN, Friedrich Felix Balduin. Leipzig 30.8.1856 — Peking 27.11.1935. German Diplomat and Oriental (Persian and Urdu) Scholar. Son of the diplomat Georg R. (1820–1891), from Lippe, and ...

  • ROSEN, Friedrich (Indologist)

    ROSEN, Friedrich August. Hannover 2.9.1805 — London 12.9.1837. German Indologist and Oriental Scholar in the U.K. Professor in London. Son of ...

  • ROSEN, Valentina —> V. STACHE-ROSEN
    ROSEN, Valentina —> V. STACHE-ROSEN
  • ROSENBAUM, Ernst

    ROSENBAUM, Ernst (nom-de-plume Dr. Ernst Roenau). Vienna 6.11.1888 — 1938?. Austrian Translator. Son of Ignáz R. and Hermine Zuckerbäcker. Dr.iuris. Worked in graphic ...

  • ROSENBERG, F

    ROSENBERG, F. —> ROZENBERG, F. A.

  • ROSENBERG, O.

    ROSENBERG, O. —> ROZENBERG, O. O.

  • ROSENMÜLLER, Ernst Friedrich Karl

    ROSENMÜLLER, Ernst Friedrich Karl. Heßberg bei Hildburghausen 10.12.1768 — Leipzig 17.9.1835. German Arabist and Protestant Theologian. Son of Johann Georg R., a minister and rationalist theologian. Studies at Leipzig.  PD 1792, in 1796-1813 ...

  • ROSITZKE, Harry A.

    ROSITZKE, Harry August. Brooklyn, N.Y. 25.2.1911 — Warrenton, VA 4.11.2002.U.S. Linguist. Educated at Harvard. In 1940 at University of Rochester. Later worked as spy for Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.), some time ...

  • ROSNER, Victor

    ROSNER, Victor. 1911 — 1985. S.J. Father. Catholic Missionary in India. In Jashpur, M.Pr., in 1964 had been 20 years in India.

    Publications: “Venom Sweeping as Practised in the ‘Upar Ghat’ ...

  • ROSS-KEPPEL, George —> G. ROOS-KEPPEL
    ROSS-KEPPEL, George —> G. ROOS-KEPPEL
  • ROSS, Aileen D.

    ROSS, Aileen Dansken. Montreal 1902 — 1995. Canadian Sociologist. Born of a wealthy family. Studies at London School of Economics (B.Sc. 1939) and University of Chicago (M.A. 1941). Ph.D. 1951 Chicago ...

  • ROSS, Alan S. C.

    ROSS, Alan Strode Campbell. 1.2.1907 — 23.9.1980. British Linguist. Son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross of Penzance and Millicent Strode Cobham. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford, started with astronomy, but soon moved ...

  • ROSS, E. Denison

    ROSS, Edward Denison. London 6.6.1871 — Istanbul 23.9.1940. Sir. British Oriental (Persian) Scholar in India. Professor in London. Son of Rev. Alexander J. ...

  • ROSSET, Carl Wilhelm

    ROSSET, Carl Wilhelm. Freiburg i. Br. 24.4.1851 — Duderstadt 18.6.1923. German Merchant, Adventurer and Collector. In 1885 he spent two months in the Maldives and took the very first photographs of ...

  • ROSSILLON, Pierre

    ROSSILLON, Pierre. 22.9.1874 — 22.3.1947. S.F.S. Catholic Missionary in India. In 1898 ordained priest of Missionariesof St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy and sent to India. Worked in Vizagapatam. From 1919 Titular ...

  • RÖSSING, Hans

    RÖSSING, Hans. 1929 — 7.1.2001 (when 71). German Linguist (Celtologist). Ph.D. PD, from 1968 Professor of comparative linguistics at Marburg, retired 1995.

    Publications: Wrote on Celtology.

    Sources: https://www.uni-marburg.de/aktuelles/unijournal/10/Personalien.

  • ROST, Reinhold

    ROST, Ernst Reinhold. Eisenberg, Sachsen-Altenburg 2.2.1822 — Canterbury 7.2.1896 (thus both Wikip., Weise & Wollaston; Stache-W. 2007 d. London 15.2.1896). German Indologist and ...

  • ROTH, Heinrich

    ROTH, Heinrich (Henricus Rodius, Roa). Dillingen 18.12.1610 — Agra 20.6.1668. S.J. German Missionary and Precursor of Indology. Son of Johann Konrad Roth, ...

  • ROTH, Rudolf (von)

    ROTH, Walter Rudolf (von). Stuttgart 3.4.1821 — Tübingen 23/24.6.1895. German Indologist. Professor in ...

  • ROTHKIRCH-PANTHEN, Hugo von

    ROTHKIRCH-PANTHEN, Hugo Bernhard Sigismund von. Breslau 22.4.1812 — Breslau 16.3.1868. German Astronomer, also interested in Linguistics. Of Silesian nobility. After Ritterakademie Liegnitz and Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau studies at Breslau. Began with law, but ...

  • ROTTLER, Johann Peter

    ROTTLER, Johann Peter. Strassburg (Strasbourg) ?.6.1749 — Madras 24/27.1.1836. German Missionary and Tamil Scholar in India. Educated at gymnasium and university in Strasbourg, ...

  • ROUSE, George Henry

    ROUSE, George Henry. Melton, Suffolk 13.11.1838 — Worthing, Sussex 2.4.1909. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Rolla Rouse and Elizabeth Jane Meadow. Became Baptist when 16. After Stepney College ...

  • ROUSE, W. H. D.

    ROUSE, William Henry Denham. Calcutta ...

  • ROUSSEAU, Pierre

    ROUSSEAU, Pierre (pseudonym Pierre Vellones). Paris 29.3.1889 — Paris 17.7.1939. French Composer and Painter. Educated at Collège Stanislas. Studied medicine, from 1914 in the army. After 1926 seriously ill. He was rather ...

  • ROUSSEAU, Samuel

    ROUSSEAU, Samuel Kent. London, bapt. 20.9.1763 — London 4.12.1820. British Printer and Oriental Scholar. Distant relative of J. J. Rousseau, of the English Huguenot branch of the family, descending from J.J.R.’s great uncle, ...

  • ROUSSEL, Alfred

    ROUSSEL, Alfred. Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes, Brétagne 17.1.1849 — Monsoult (Val d’ouse) 6.8.1921. French Indologist in Swizerland. Professor in Fribourg. Son of a butcher. ...

  • ROVIRALTA BORREL, José

    ROVIRALTA BORREL, José. 1856 — 1926. Spanish Physician and Theosophist. In 1889 he was one of the founders of Sociedade Teosófica da Espanha.

  • ROWLAND, Benjamin, Jr.

    ROWLAND, Benjamin, Jr. Overbrook near Philadelphia 2.12.1904 — Cambridge Mass. 3.10.1972. U.S. Art Historian. Professor in Cambridge, Mass. Educated at St.Paul’s School in ...

  • ROWLANDS, Jane Helen

    ROWLANDS, Jane Helen (Helen o Fôn). Menai Bridge, Anglesey 3.4.1891 — Karimganj 12.2.1955. British (Welsh) Missionary in Assam. Daughter of Captain Jabez and ...

  • ROXBURGH, William

    ROXBURGH, William. Underwood near Craigie, Ayrshire 3. or 29.6.1751 — Edinburgh 18.2.1815. British (Scottish) Physician and Scientist in India, Pioneer of Indian Botany. ...

  • ROYEN, Gerlach

    ROYEN, Gerlach (born Nicolaus Jacobus Hubertus Royen). Valkenburg 18.10.1880 — Utrecht 4.2.1955. O.F.M. Father. Dutch Linguist. Educated in Sittard, joined O.F.M. 1898, ordained priest 1905. In 1905-11 gymnasium teacher in Venray, 1911-14 ...

  • ROYLE, Forbes

    ROYLE, John Forbes. Cawnpur (Kanpur) 10.5.1799 — Acton near London 2.1.1858. British (Scottish) Physician, Botanist and Scientist in India. Son of Capt. William ...

  • ROZENBERG, Fridrih Aleksandrovič (Friedrich Rosenberg)

    ROZENBERG, Fridrih (Fëdor) Aleksandrovič (Friedrich Rosenberg). Fellin, Livonia (near Viljandi in Estonia) 1.(13.)3.1867 — Leningrad 5.6.1934. Russian (German of Livonia) Iranian Scholar. Graduated ...

  • ROZENBERG, Otton Ottonovič (Otto Rosenberg)

    ROZENBERG, Otton Ottonovič (Otto Karl Julius Rosenberg). Friedrichstadt, Kurland (Jaunjelgava, Latvia) 7.7.1888 — Tallinn 26.11.1919. Russian (Baltic German) Buddhologist. Son of ...

  • ROZWADOWSKI, Jan M.

    ROZWADOWSKI, Jan Michał. Czarna near Tarnów 7.12.1867 — Warsaw 14.3.1935. Polish IE and Slavic Linguist and Gipsy Scholar. Professor in Cracow. ...

  • RUBEN, Walter

    RUBEN, Walter. Hamburg 26.12.1899 — Berlin 7.11.1982. German (East) Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of Albert R., a merchant, and Emmi ...

  • RUBINO, Giovanni Antonio

    RUBINO, Giovanni Antonio. Strambino (Turin) 1.3.1578 — Mount Unzen (Nagasaki), Japan 16.3.1643. S.J. Italian Missionary in India. Novice 1596, studies in Milano. Sailed from Lisbon in 1602. Ordained priest 1605 ...

  • RÜCKERT, Friedrich

    RÜCKERT, Friedrich. Schweinfurt 16.5.1788 — Neusess bei Coburg, Franken 31.1.1866. German Poet, Translator, Oriental Scholar and Indologist. Professor in Erlangen and ...

  • RUDENKO, S. I.

    RUDENKO, S. I. 1885 — 1969. Russian Art Historian and Archaeologist. A specialist of Scythian antiquity.

    Publications:

  • RUDICH, Berta

    RUDICH, Berta. 18?? — 19??. Art Historian. Ph.D. 1920 Vienna (under Strzygowski). geni.com has an unlikely Ukrainian candidate (who was born in the then Austrian territory): Berta Rudich (Branie Rudih, née ...

  • RÜDIGER, Johann Christian Christoph

    RÜDIGER, Johann Christian Christoph. Burg near Magdeburg 9.5.1751 — 21.10.1822. German Cameralist. Background not known. From 1768 studies of law and modern languages ...

  • RUDIN, Semën Gesselevič.

    RUDIN, Semën Gesselevič. Leningrad 21.7.1929 — 22.8.1973. Russian Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of an official. In 1947-52 studied Indology in Leningrad. ...

  • RUDNICKI, Mikołaj

    RUDNICKI, Mikołaj. Sokołow Podlaski 6.12.1881 — Puszczykowo 28.6.1978. Polish Linguist. Son of Szymon R. Studies at Cracow (under Rozwadowski). PD 1911 Cracow. From ...

  • RUELL, Johannes

    RUELL (de Ruël), Joannes. Leiden 1659/60 or 1663/64 — Colombo ?.5.1701. Dutch Priest in Ceylon, worked there as predikant in Colombo from 1692 ...

  • RUNDALL, Frank Montagu

    RUNDALL, Frank Montagu. Madras 18.5.1851 — 25.4.1930. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of General Francis Hornblow R. (1823–1908), an irrigation engineer in ...

  • RUNKLE, Catharine Bird

    RUNKLE, Catharine Bird. 7.2.1863 — 24.12.1943. U.S. Student of Sanskrit. Daughter of John Daniel Runkle and Catharine Robbins. Studied from 1886 at Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College), learned Sanskrit under ...

  • RUPP, Joseph

    RUPP, Joseph. Hamberg near Priem 14.3.1822 — Freising 24.9.1894. German Roman Catholic Priest and Schoolteacher interested in Indology. Studies of theology at Freising ...

  • RUSSELL, Robert Vane

    RUSSELL, Robert Vane. 8.8.1873 — off the coast of Crete 30.12.1915. British Ethnologist in India. Son of Charles Robert Tilden R., a navy officer, educated at Winchester College, then studies at ...

  • RUTGERS, Antonie

    RUTGERS, Antonie. Groningen 8.3.1805 — the Hague 18.10.1884. Dutch Oriental Scholar and Reformed Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Leiden. Son of Rev. ...

  • RYBOT, N. V. L.

    RYBOT, Norman Victor Lacey. Jersey 7.1.1874 — Jersey 18.5.1961. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel G. O. Rybot of Bengal Artillery. Joined Indian army in 1897, posted in the Punjab. In ...

  • RYDER, Arthur W.

    RYDER, Arthur William. Oberlin, Ohio 8.3.1877 — Berkeley 21.3.1938. U.S. Indologist. Professor in Berkeley. Son of William Henry R. and Mary ...

  • RYDH, Hanna

    RYDH, Hanna Albertina. Stockholm 12.2.1891 — Solna 29.6.1964. Swedish Archaeologist. Daughter of director Johan Albert Ryd and Matilda Josefina Westlund, teacher at elementary school. School and studies in Stockholm, graduated 1915 in ...

  • RYLANDS, Cyril Alexander

    RYLANDS, Cyril Alexander. 18?? — 197?. British Indologist. In the early 1920s studied at Cambridge (B.A. & M.A.). From the 1930s ...

  • RYSIEWICZ, Zygmunt

    RYSIEWICZ, Zygmunt. Krosno, Subcarpathian Voivodeship 5.1.1911 — Warsaw 14.4.1954. Polish Indologist and Linguist. From 1929 studies of Polish, Slavics and philosophy ...

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