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  • RAABE, Christine Henriette

    RAABE, Christine Henriëtte. Utrecht 1878 — Utrecht 17.2.1959. Dutch Student of Indology. Daughter of Adam Hendrik Raabe (d. 1899) and Christina Henriette 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). Perhaps RABEL, Lili (L. Rabel Heymann)

    RABEL, Lili (after 1969 Lili Rabel Heymann). 1913 — California 1985. German-born Linguist in Canada and the U.S.A. Ph.D. 1957 Berkeley. Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of Calgary 1967–78, then retired. ...

  • RABIN, Chaim

    RABIN, Chaim Menachem. Giessen 22.11.1915 — Jerusalem 13.5.1996. Israeli (born in Germany) Linguist and Semitic Scholar. Son of Russian Jewish historian Israel Rabin (1882–1951) and ...

  • RADCLIFFE-BROWN, Alfred Reginald

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

  • RAE, George Milne

    RAE, George Milne. Udny, Aberdeenshire 2.9.1840 — Edinburgh 24.3.1917. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in South India. Son of John Rae (1800–1856) and Isobel Milne. Studies at Aberdeen (M.A. 1863). ...

  • RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford

    RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford (Sir Stamford). on sea near Jamaica 6.7.1781 — Highwood Hill near London 5.7.1826. Sir. British Civil Servant and Scholar in South-East Asia. ...

  • RAGOZIN, Zenaide Alekseevna

    RAGOZIN, Zenaide Alekseevna (born Zenaida Alekseevna Verderevskaja, then Agreneva, Kel’sieva and Ragozina). Rjazan govt. 16.6.1838 (1834/35?) — Leningrad 18.5.1924. Russian Traveller and Authoress of Popular ...

  • 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 where his ...

  • RAHMANN, Rudolph

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

  • 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 (1794–1880), a wealthy merchant with ...

  • RAMOS DE ANDRES, Justo

    RAMOS DE ANDRÉS, Justo. 1904 — 1965. Padre. Spanish Linguist. Ph.D. Professor of Classical languages at Madrid, also taught Sanskrit, from 1934 and still in ...

  • RAMPOLLA DEL TINDARO, Mariano

    RAMPOLLA DEL TINDARO, Mariano. Polizzi Generosa, Palermo 26.10.1893 — Rome 21.10.1945. Monsignor. Italian Indologist. Born in a Sicilian noble family. Student of O. ...

  • 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. ...

  • RAMSAY, Horatio Nelson

    RAMSAY, Horatio Nelson. London 13.12.1805 — Malligaum, New South Wales 20.5.1846. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Thomas Ramsay and Jane Sills. Served in Bombay Native Infantry, later ...

  • RAMSAY, William

    RAMSAY, William. 15.6.1834 — 30.11.1901. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Sir George Ramsay (1800–1871), 9th Bart., and Emily Eugenia Lennon. In Bombay Civil Service. In 1866 ...

  • RAMSTEDT, G. John

    RAMSTEDT, Gustaf John. Tammisaari 22.10.1873 — Helsinki 25.11.1950. Finnish Altaic Scholar. Son of Gustaf Adolf Ramstedt, a machineman, and Edla Matilda Holmberg. Gymnasium in Turku, ...

  • RANDLE, Herbert Niel

    RANDLE, Herbert Niel. Bombay 19.10.1880 — Richmond, Surrey 8.7.1973. British Indologist. Civil servant (teacher) in India and Librarian in London (India ...

  • 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 Göttingen. Son ...

  • 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 Ranking (1785–1867) and Isabella Spiers (1810–1883). Educated at Aldenham School ...

  • RAPSON, E. J.

    RAPSON, Edward James. Leicester 12.5.1861 — Cambridge 3.10.1937. British Indologist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of the teacher and future vicar Edward ...

  • 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 Christian. Haderslev 28.8.1853 — Copenhagen 25.12.1904. Danish Schoolteacher and Oriental Scholar. Son of Harald Valdemar Rasmussen (1821–1891), a minister and scholar ...

  • RASSAT, Hans-Joachim
    RASSAT, Hans-Joachim. Elbing, Westpreussen 29.1.1926 — Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) 7.1.1999. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1955 Tübingen. Probably worked as journalist.
    Publications: Diss. Gaṇeśa. Eine Untersuchung über Herkunft, ...
  • RASTORGUEVA, Vera Sergeevna
    RASTORGUEVA, Vera Sergeevna. Manor of Storoževskij, Tambovskij Gub. (later Usmanskij rajon in Lipeckaja oblast) 23.5.(5.6.)1912 — 7.11.2005. Russian Iranian Scholar. Daughter of a farmer. Graduated 1938 in Leningrad. Kand. ...
  • RAU, Heimo

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

  • RAU, Wilhelm

    RAU, Adolf Wilhelm Ludwig. Gera 15.2.1922 — Gera 29.12.1999. German Indologist. Professor in Marburg. Son of Rudolf Rau (1877–1954), a schoolteacher, and Johanna ...

  • RAVEAU, Régine
    RAVEAU, Régine Gisèle Francette. Poitiers (Vienne) 17.5.1922 — Saint-Sébastien-du-Morsent (Eure) 9.12.1997. French Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Daughter of a winegrower. Studied German ...
  • RAVENSHAW, Edward Cockburn

    RAVENSHAW, Edward Cockburn. Mangalore 1804 —14.4.1877. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Goldsborough R. (1777–1840), later the chairman of E.I.C., and Hannah Bond. In ...

  • RAVERTY, Henry George

    RAVERTY, Henry George. Falmouth, Cornwall 31.5.1825 — Grampound Road, Cornwall 20.10.1906. British Colonial Officer and Oriental (Afghan) Scholar in India. Son ...

  • RAWLINSON, George

    RAWLINSON, George. Chadlington, Oxfordshire 23.11.1812 — Canterbury 6.10.1902. Rev. Canon. British Classical Scholar and Historian. Son of Abraham Tyson Rawlinson (1777–1845), a breeder of racehorses, ...

  • 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 (Wikidata: Brighton) 12.5.1880 — Seaview, Isle of Wight 8.6.1957. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son ...

  • RAWSON, Joseph Nadin

    RAWSON, Joseph Nadin. Hyson Green Radford, Nottinghamshire 8.5.1880 — Calcutta 19.4.1940. British Scholar of Religion. Son of Joseph Rawson (1856–1940) and Elizabeth Ross. ...

  • 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 Adeline Bargate. ...

  • REA, Alexander

    REA, Alexander. Dundee 17.10.1858 — Bangalore 4.2.1924 (ancestry.com 4.2.1921). British (Scottish) Archaeologist and Photographer in India. Son of David Rea and Helton Mair. ...

  • RECZEK, Józef

    RECZEK, Józef. Szczepanów, Lesser Poland 16.2.1936 — Ibid. 13.2.1988. Polish Indo-European, Slavonic and Iranian Linguist. Son of Alojzy Reczek ...

  • REDARD, Georges
    REDARD, Georges. Neuchâtel 4.4.1922 — Kirchlindach 24.1.2005. Swiss IE and Iranian
    Scholar. Professor in Neuchâtel and Bern. Son of post official Arnold ...
  • 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 (1816–1885) and Ann Jones. ...

  • REEVE, William

    REEVE, William. Chelmsford, Essex 7.8.1793 — Bristol 14.4.1850. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of the elder William Reeve and his wife Mary. ...

  • REGAMEY, Constantin

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

  • 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 Regel (1815–1892, 1873 Russian title of nobility), a garden ...

  • 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. From 1868 studies at ...

  • RÉGNIER, Adolphe

    RÉGNIER, Jacques-Auguste-Adolphe. Mainz 7.7.1804 — Fontainebleau 20.10. 1884. French Linguist and Vedic Scholar. Born in a French family in German area then occupied ...

  • REHATSEK, Edward

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

  • 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 Reichelt, the owner of ...

  • 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. After seminary ...

  • RELAND, Adriaan (Hadrianus Relandus)

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

  • REMPIS, Christian

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

  • REMUSAT

    REMUSAT —> ABEL-REMUSAT.

  • REMY, Arthur F. J.

    REMY, Arthur Frank JJoseph. Elberfeld near Wuppertal 26.6.1871 — 24.10.1954. U.S. (of German Origin) Germanist Scholar interested in Indo-Iranian. Professor in New York. Born in ...

  • 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 the elder E. ...

  • RENEL, Charles

    RENEL, Charles Ulysse. Strasbourg 6.5.1866 — Antanarivo 9.9.1925. French Philologist. The only child of Émile Louis Étienne Renel, a railway official, and Uranie Charlotte Henriette Lafite (d. 1878). After Franco-Prussian ...

  • RENNEL, James

    RENNEL, James. Chudleigh, Devonshire 3.12.1742 — London 29.3.1830. British Colonial Officer and Geographer in India. Son of Captain John Rennel (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. Military ...

  • 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 Reuter (1824–1899) ...

  • REUTHER, Oskar
    REUTHER, Oskar August. Herner, Sauerland 20.10.1880 — Heidelberg 5.8.1954. German Historian of Architecture. Son of merchant O. A. Reuther. Studied 1899-1904 architecture at Technische Hochschule Dresden, soon ...
  • 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 and Philosopher. Son of José de la Revilla. ...

  • 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 Auguste Réville ...

  • 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. ...

  • RHEEDE TOT DRAKENSTEIN, Hendrik Adrian van

    RHEEDE TOT DRAKENSTEIN, Hendrik Adrian vanUtrecht 13.4.1636 — on sea off Bombay 15.12.1691. Dutch Colonial Administrator and Botanist. Son of Ernst van Rheede (1588–1640), Council at the Admiralty in ...

  • 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 Scholar in ...

  • RHODE, Johann Gottlieb

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

  • RHYS DAVIDS, Caroline Augusta Foley

    RHYS DAVIDS, Caroline Augusta Foley. Wadhurst, East Sussex 27.12.1858 — Chipstead, Surrey 26.6.1942. British Indologist, Pāli and Buddhist Scholar. President of ...

  • RHYS DAVIDS, Thomas William

    RHYS DAVIDS, Thomas William. Colchester, Essex 12.5.1843 — Chipstead, Surrey 27.12.1922. British Indologist, Pāli and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Manchester, Founder ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 1640 and ...

  • RIBEZZO, Francesco

    RIBEZZO, Francesco. Francavilla Fontana near Brindisi 8.5.1875 — Lecce, Apulia 19.10.1952. Italian Archaeologist and Linguist (IE Scholar). Professor in Palermo. Educated in Lecce, studies at ...

  • RICCAZ, Alexis

    RICCAZ, Alexis. Saint-Jean-d’Arves (Savoie) 26.1.1834 — Jabalpur 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 ...

  • 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. Worked in ...

  • RICE, Benjamin L.

    RICE, Benjamin Lewis. Bangalore 17.7.1837 — Harrow, London 10.7.1927. Rev. British Schoolteacher, Historian and Indologist in India. Born in South India, ...

  • RICE, Carlton C.

    RICE, Carlton Cosmo. Iowa 12.8.1876 — Albemarle, Stanly, NC 17.71945. U.S. Linguist. Studies at University of Texas (A.B. 1897, M.A. 1899) and Harvard (A.M. 1900). Ph.D. 1902 Harvard. Assistant ...

  • RICE, Edward P.

    RICE, Edward Peter. Bangalore 26.4.1849 — 11.12.1936. Rev. British Missionary and Scholar of Kannaḍa, in India. The youngest son of Rev. ...

  • RICE, Henry

    RICE, Henry. 1846 — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in South India. Son of Rev. —> Benjamin H. Rice (1814–1887) and Jane Peach Singer (d. 1864), ...

  • RICE, Stanley P.

    RICE, Stanley Pitcairn. 10.12.1869 — 18.11.1944. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Sanskrit. Served from 1890 in Madras, retired1918 and became member ...

  • RICHARDS, Frederick John

    RICHARDS, Frederick John. 26.6.1875 — 19??. British Civil Servant and Archaeologist in India. Son of bank clerk John Richards and his wife Sarah. Educated at Merchant Taylors’ School. From 1893 ...

  • RICHARDS, Glyn

    RICHARDS, Glyn. Rhymney, Wales 6.8.1923 — Glamorgan, Wales 7.3.2003. Rev. British (Welsh) Philosopher and Scholar of Religion. Son of Thomas Richards and Rose Jones. Studies at University of Wales ...

  • RICHARDSON, David

    RICHARDSON, David Thomas. Langholm, Dumfriesshire 176? — on sea ?.11.1808. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Gilbert Richardson (1722–1783) and Susanna Scott (d. 1775). Like several of his ...

  • RICHARDSON, Hugh

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

  • RICHTER, Oswald

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

  • 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 of Rev. William Ridding (1830–1900) and Caroline Selina Caldecott. Studied ...

  • RIDGEWAY, Thomas
    RIDGEWAY, Thomas (Tom) Bruce. Chewelah, co. Stevens, WA 30.9.1949 — Seattle 15.4.2005. U.S. Linguist. Son of Colonel Gordon Blais Ridgeway (1918–2003) and Margaret Adelaide Carlock (1922–2015), grew ...
  • 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 Rev. John Dowell Ridout and Alician Maria Mais. Joined Ceylon C.S. District ...

  • RIEKER, Hans-Ulrich

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

  • RIENCOURT, Amaury de
    RIENCOURT, Amaury de, Marquis. Orléans 18.6.1918 — Bellevue, Switzerland 13.1.2005. French Historian, Indian, South-East Asian and Tibetan Scholar. Born in an old family of nobility, son of ...
  • 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. Son of Juozapas Rimka (1850?–1887) and Uršule Rimkienė. Educated in Lankeliskiu, ...

  • RINGBOM, Lars-Ivar

    RINGBOM, Lars-Ivar Edvin. Turku 23.7.1901 — Turku 21.5.1971. Finnish Art Historian interested in Iranian Mythology. Professor in Turku. Son of Lars Ivar Ringbom (1869–1937), a physician, and Elin Elisabeth ...

  • 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, son of ...

  • RISLEY, H. H.

    RISLEY, Herbert Hope. Akeley, Buckinghamshire 4.1.1851 — Wimbledon 30.9.1911. Sir Herbert. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of a rector, Rev. James (or ...

  • RITTER, Pavlo Grigorovič

    RITTER, Pavlo Grigorovič (Hryhorovyč, Russian Pavel Grigor’evič Ritter). Čutovo, 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 of Konkani ...

  • RIVERO GODOY, Francisco María

    RIVERO Y GODOY, Francisco María. 18?? — 1???. Spanish Diplomat and Sanskrit Scholar. Son of Nicolás María Rivero (1814–1878), a politician and diplomat. Grew up in Málaga, studied law ...

  • RIVERS, W. H. R.

    RIVERS, William Halse Rivers. Luton near Chatham, Kent 12.3.1864 — Cambridge 4.6.1922. British Physician and Anthropologist. Son of Rev. Henry Frederick Rivers and Elizabeth Hunt, ...

  • RIVETT-CARNAC, John Henry

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

  • RIX, Helmut
    RIX, Helmut. Amberg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria 4.7.1926 — Colmar, Alsace 3.12.2004. German Linguist (IE and Italic). Professorin Regensburg and Freiburg. Son of ...
  • ROADARMEL, Gordon C.

    ROADARMEL, Gordon Charles. Kharagpur, West Bengal 2.2.1932 — Berkeley 15.6.1972. U.S. Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Son of missionary parents, grew up in India, educated in Mussoorie ...

  • ROBERTS, Emma

    ROBERTS, Emma. Methley near Leeds (or London?) 27.3.1791 — Poona 16.9.1840. British Journalist and Poet in India. Daughter of Captain William Roberts, who died before her birth, and his ...

  • ROBERTS, Ernest Stewart

    ROBERTS, Ernest Stewart. Swineshead, Lincolnshire 1847 — Cambridge 16.6.1912. Rev. British Classicist and Linguist. Lecturer in Cambridge. Son of Dr. Stewart Blacker Roberts (1819–1877) and ...

  • ROBERTS, Hugh

    ROBERTS, Hugh. Pontyraran, Dolgellau, Merionethshire 23.6.1841 — Ruabon near Wrexham 1916. Rev. British (Welsh) Missionary in India. Son of Robert Roberts. Ordained priest 1865, a Calvinistic Methodist. Arrived in ...

  • ROBERTS, Joseph

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

  • 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. ...

  • ROBERTS, S. G.

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

  • 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 ...

  • ROBERTSON, Alexander

    ROBERTSON, Alexander. Dingwall, Ross-shire 28.3.1877 — 19??. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of William Robertson and Margaret Urquhart, educated in Kilmorack, Inverness and Edinburgh. Studies at Aberdeen, ...

  • ROBERTSON, Elphinstone Pourtales

    ROBERTSON, Elphinstone Pourtales. 1831 — Middlesex 30.1.1912. British Civil Servant in India. Educated at Haileybury. Joined the service and arrived at Bombay in 1851, worked in Surat, Ahmedabad, Colaba, ...

  • 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 of ...

  • ROBERTSON, William

    ROBERTSON, William. Borthwick, Midlothian 19.9.1721 — Edinburgh 11.6.1793. British (Scottish) Historian. The eldest son of Rev. William Robertson (1686–1745) and Eleanor Pitcairn (d. 1745), educated ...

  • ROBINSON, Richard H.

    ROBINSON, Richard Hugh. Carstairs, Alberta 21.6.1926 — Madison 6.8.1970. Canadian Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Madison. Son of a farmer, of ...

  • ROBINSON, Thomas

    ROBINSON, Thomas. Leicester (?) 1790 — Pracincts, Rochester 17.5.1873. Rev. British Clergyman in India. Son of Rev. Thomas Robinson (1749–1813), lost his mother as infant (1791). Educated at ...

  • ROBINSON, William (civil servant)

    ROBINSON, William Rose. Midlothian 28.6.1822 — London 27.4.1886. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of the elder W. R. Robinson (1781–1834), the Sheriff of Lanarkshire, and ...

  • ROBINSON, William (missionary)

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

  • 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 Rev. Dr. John Robson and Agnes Renton. Educated in Glasgow, Geneva, ...

  • ROCA Y LÓPEZ, Pedro.

    ROCA Y LÓPEZ, Pedro.Tarancón (Cuenca) 9.10.1856 — Madrid 21.1.1903. Spanish Librarian. Educated in Cuenca, studies at Madrid. Dr.phil. In Sanskrit student of Gelabert y Gordiola, as librarian of Barcelona University ...

  • ROCCA, Vittorio

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

  • ROCK, Joseph Francis

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

  • ROCKHILL, W. W.

    ROCKHILL, William Woodville. Philadelphia, Pa. 1.4.1854 — Honolulu 8.12.1914. U.S. Diplomat, Traveller, Sinologist and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Thomas Cadwalader Rockhill ...

  • 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. Born in a Derbyshire hamlet, his father was ...

  • RODRÍGUEZ PINILLA, Tomás

    RODRÍGUEZ (Y) PINILLA, Tomás. Salamanca 2.11.1814 — Madrid 23.5.1886. Spanish Historian and Politician. Son of José Rodríguez, a liberal-minded silversmith, and María Pinilla. Studied law ...

  • RODRIGUEZ, Etienne Alexander

    RODRIGUEZ, Etienne Alexander. 1??? — 1???. Anglo-Indian? Son of Captain Francis Rodriguez of the ship L’Esperance. Head Draftsman in the Survey Department, Madras.

    Publications: The Hindoo pantheon, comprising the principal deities ...

  • ROE, Charles Arthur

    ROE, Charles Arthur (or C. Arthur Roe). Blandford Forum, Dorset 4.9.1841 — Oxford 28.1.1927. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of wine merchant John ...

  • 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 Elinor Jermy, ...

  • 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 ...

  • ROENAU, Ernst

    ROENAU, Ernst —> Ernst ROSENBAUM

  • ROEPSTORFF, Frederik Adolph de

    ROEPSTORFF, Frederik Adolph de. on sea near Cape Colony 25.3.1842 — Kamorte, Nicobars 24.10.1883.Danish Scholar and Missionary. Son of sea captain Adolph de Roepstorff (1819–1881) and Charlotte Georgiana Holmes ...

  • RÖER, Eduard

    RÖER, Johann (Hans) Heinrich Eduard (Edward). Braunschweig 26.10.1805 — Braunschweig 17.3.1866. German Indologist in India. Son of a merchant. Studies of philosophy at ...

  • 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, ...

  • ROERICH, Nicholas (Nikolai Konstantinovič Rërih)

    ROERICH, Nicholas (Nikolaj Konstantinovič Rërih). St.Petersburg 27.9.(9.10.)1874 — Naggar, Himachal Pradesh 1.3.1948. Russian Painter, lay Archaeologist, Theosophist and Central Asian Traveller. Son of Konstantin Fëdorovič ...

  • ROGER RIVIÈRE, Juan
    ROGER RIVIÈRE, Juan. 1903 — ????. Spanish Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Active as early as 1947. Professor of Indology (or Oriental Art) at ...
  • ROGER, Abraham

    ROGER, Abraham (A. Rogerius). Haarlem (?) 1609 — Gouda 1649. Dutch Reformed Priest in India and Indonesia. Son of Abraham Rogiers ...

  • 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 ...

  • ROGERS, E. H.

    ROGERS, E. H. 18?? — 1899?. Head Master of the Lawrence Military Asylum in Sanawar, Himalayas (1858), in 1861 already Sub-Inspector of Army Schools (1879), retired.

    ROGERS, George Gordon

    ROGERS, George Gordon. Dharamsala 9.4.1893 — Maidenhead, Berkshire ?.5.1966. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of G. W. Rogers, Colonel of Gurkha Rifles. Educated at ...

  • 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 Madras Engineers. Served in the second ...

  • 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 von Humboldt ...

  • 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 Musicologist and ...

  • ROMER, John

    ROMER, John. Ancroft, co. Durham 1780 (Wikipedia. c. 1770) — 22.8.1858. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert Romer and Frances Marshall (died before ...

  • 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 ...

  • RÖNNOW, Kasten

    RÖNNOW, Kasten Anders. Stockholm 24.1.1897 — Uppsala 2.5.1943. Swedish Indologist and Historian of Religions. Son of director August Olsen Rönnow (1857–1924) ...

  • ROOKE, George Harry

    ROOKE, George Harry. 1869 — 24.6.1936. British Officer and Theosophist. In 1909 in Adyar. Later on living in Brighton, died dramatically when playing tennis. In ...

  • ROOS-KEPPEL, George

    ROOS-KEPPEL, George Olaf (also referred to as Ross-Keppel, added Keppel in 1890). London 7.9.1866 — London 11.12.1921. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel (1907). ...

  • ROSE, Eugen

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

  • 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, Richard Rose, and Emma ...

  • RÖSEL, Richard
    RÖSEL, Richard. 1.5.1902 — ????. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1928 Tübingen. Then teacher (Oberstudienrat) in Hof.
    Publications: Diss. pp. 60-100 of his book Die psychologischen Grundlagen ...
  • ROSEN, Friedrich (diplomat)

    ROSEN, Friedrich (Fritz) Felix Balduin. Leipzig 30.8.1856 — Beijing 27.11.1935. German Diplomat and Oriental (Persian and Urdu) Scholar. Son of the diplomat Georg Rosen (1820–1891), ...

  • 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 Rosenbaum and Hermine Zuckerbäcker. Dr.iuris. Worked in graphic industry of ...

  • 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 Rosenmüller (1736–1815), a minister and rationalist theologian. Gymnasium in Giessen, studies ...

  • ROSITZKE, Harry A.

    ROSITZKE, Harry August. Brooklyn, N.Y. 25.2.1911 — Warrenton, VA 4.11.2002.U.S. Linguist. Studied at Union College in Schenectady, NY, A.B. 1931, then at Harvard, Ph.D. ...

  • ROSNER, Victor

    ROSNER, Victor. Rangoon, Burma (?) 1911 — 1985. S.J. Father. Catholic Missionary in India. Son of Charles Alexander Rosner and Muriel Kate Ballantine. Worked in Jashpur, M.Pr., from 1960 ...

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

    ROSS, Aileen Dansken. Montreal 3.6.1902 — Montreal (?) 22.10.1995. Canadian Sociologist. Born of a wealthy family, daughter of John Wardrop Ross (1870–1946) and Gertrude Emma Holland. Studies at London ...

  • ROSS, Alan S. C.

    ROSS, Alan Strode Campbell. 1.2.1907 — Birmingham 23.9.1980. British Linguist. Son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross of Penzance and Millicent Strode Cobham. Educated at Malvern College and Christ College, Brecon. ...

  • 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. Ross, D.D., ...

  • ROSSET, Carl Wilhelm

    ROSSET, Carl Wilhelm. Freiburg i. Br. 24.4.1851 — Duderstadt near Göttingen 18.6.1923. German Merchant, Adventurer and Collector. In 1874-76 travelled in Africa, in 1881 in the Near East. In ...

  • ROSSILLON, Pierre

    ROSSILLON, Pierre. La Biolle (Savoie) 22.9.1874 — Visakhapatnam 22.3.1947. S.F.S. French Catholic Missionary in India. In 1898 ordained priest of Missionariesof St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy and sent to ...

  • RÖSSING, Hans

    RÖSSING, Hans. Duisburg 13.12.1929 — 7.5.2001 (when 71). German Linguist (Celtologist). Son of an engineer. Educated in Duisburg, Homberg and Weilburg. Then studies at Marburg from 1950, Ph.D. there ...

  • ROST, Ernest
    ROST, Ernest Reinhold. Ealing, London 22.8.1872 — Putney, London 23.6.1930. British Physician and Bauddha in Burma. Lieutenant-colonel (1915). Son of German parents, —> Ernst ...
  • ROST, Reinhold

    ROST, Ernst Reinhold. Eisenberg, Sachsen-Altenburg 2.2.1822 — Canterbury 7.2.1896 (thus Wikipedia, Weise & Wollaston; Stache-Weiske 2007 d. London 15.2.1896). German Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar ...

  • 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 (d. 1637), ...

  • ROTH, Rudolf (von)

    ROTH, Walther Rudolf (von). Stuttgart 3.4.1821 — Tübingen 23/24.6.1895. German Indologist. Professor in Tübingen. Son of an official (Oberrevisor), Christoph Wilhelm ...

  • ROTHKIRCH-PANTHEN, Hugo von

    ROTHKIRCH-PANTHEN, Hugo Bernhard Sigismund, Freiherr von. Breslau 22.4.1812 — Breslau 16.3.1868. German Astronomer, also interested in Linguistics. Son of Karl Heinrich Sigismund von Rothkirch-Panthen (1785–1830), Prussian Lieutenant, and Charlotte Ernestine ...

  • ROTTLER, Johann Peter

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

  • 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 (1805–1887) and Elizabeth Jane Meadow. Became Baptist when 16. ...

  • ROUSE, W. H. D.

    ROUSE, William Henry Denham. Calcutta 30.5.1863 — Hayling Island, Hampshire 10.2.1950. British Classical Scholar and Indologist. Teacher and Lecturer in Cambridge. ...

  • ROUSSEAU, Pierre

    ROUSSEAU, Pierre Édouard Léon (pseudonym Pierre Vellones). Paris 29.3.1889 — Paris 17.7.1939. French Physician, Composer and Painter. Son of a physician. Educated at Collège Stanislas. Studied medicine, from 1914 physician ...

  • ROUSSEAU, Samuel

    ROUSSEAU, Samuel Kent. London, bapt. 20.9.1763 — London 4.12.1820. British Printer and Oriental Scholar. He is said to be a distant relative of J. J. Rousseau, of the English Huguenot branch ...

  • ROUSSEL, Alfred

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

  • 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 Concord, N.H., ...

  • 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 Rowlands and his ...

  • ROXBURGH, William

    ROXBURGH, William. Underwood estate near Craigie, Ayrshire 29.6.1751 (or 3.6.) — Edinburgh 18.2.1815. British (Scottish) Physician and Scientist in India, Pioneer of Indian Botany. Early ...

  • ROYEN, Gerlach

    ROYEN, Gerlach (born Nicolaus Jacobus Hubertus Royen). Valkenburg, Limburg 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 teacher at ...

  • ROYLE, Forbes

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

  • ROZENBERG, Fridrih Aleksandrovič (Friedrich Rosenberg)

    ROZENBERG, Fridrih (Fëdor) Aleksandrovič (Friedrich Rosenberg). Fellin, Livonia (now Viljandi in Estonia) 1.(13.)3.1867 — Leningrad 5.6.1934. Russian (German of Livonia) Iranian Scholar. Graduated 1890 from ...

  • 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 and Sinologist. 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 Elias Ruben (1868–1926), a Jewish merchant, and ...

  • RUBINO, Giovanni Antonio

    RUBINO, Giovanni AntonioStrambino (Turin) 1.3.1578 — Mount Unzen (Nagasaki), Japan 16.3.1643. S.J. Father. Italian Missionary in India. Born in a noble family. Novice 1596, studies in Milano. ...

  • RÜCKERT, Friedrich

    RÜCKERT, Friedrich Johann Michael. 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 ...

  • RÜDIGER, Johann Christian Christoph

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

  • RUDIN, Semën Gesselevič.

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

  • RUDNICKI, Mikołaj

    RUDNICKI, Mikołaj. Sokołow Podlaski, Mazovia 6.12.1881 — Puszczykowo near Poznań 28.6.1978. Polish Linguist. Son of Szymon Rudnicki and Zofia Bałkowa. Studies at Cracow ...

  • RUELL, Johannes

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

  • RUNDALL, Frank Montagu

    RUNDALL, Frank Montagu (“Montie”). Madras 18.5.1851 — Tynemouth, Northumberland 25.4.1930. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of General Francis Hornblow Rundall (1823–1908), an irrigation engineer ...

  • RUNDGREN, Frithiof
    RUNDGREN, Gustav Frithiof. Stockholm 25.12.1921 — Uppsala 16.9.2006. Swedish Semitic and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Uppsala. Grew up in Stockholm. From 1939 studied Semitics at ...
  • RUNKLE, Catharine Bird

    RUNKLE, Catharine Bird. Dedham, Norfolk, MA 7.2.1863 — 24.12.1943. U.S. Student of Sanskrit. Daughter of John Daniel Runkle (1822–1902) and Catharine Robbins. Studied from 1886 at Harvard Annex for women ...

  • RÜPING, Klaus
    RÜPING, Klaus. Burg near Magdeburg 8.8.1940 — 7.9.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Münster. Son of economist Erich Rüping and his wife, elementary school teacher Hildegard Rüping, grew up ...
  • RUPP, Joseph

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

  • RUSSELL, Robert Vane

    RUSSELL, Robert Vane. Weymouth, Dorset 8.8.1873 — off the coast of Crete 30.12.1915. British Ethnologist in India. Son of Charles Robert Tilden Russell (1842–1918), a navy officer, and Cecilia ...

  • 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. Johannes Rutgers ...

  • RYAN, Bryce
    RYAN, Bryce Finley. Youngstown, Ohio 1911? — Miami 17.4.2005, when 94. U.S. Sociologist. Studied at University of Washington (B.A.), at universities in Texas (M.A.) and ...
  • RYBOT, N. V. L.

    RYBOT, Norman Victor Lacey. Jersey 7.1.1874 — Jersey 18.5.1961. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel George Oliver Rybot (1827–1912) of Bengal Artillery and Victoria Baker (1838–1913). Joined Indian army ...

  • RYDER, Arthur W.

    RYDER, Arthur William. Oberlin, Ohio 8.3.1877 — Berkeley 21.3.1938. U.S. Indologist. Professor in Berkeley. Son of merchant William Henry Ryder (1842–1918) ...

  • RYDH, Hanna

    RYDH, Hanna Albertina. Stockholm 12.2.1891 — Solna 29.6.1964. Swedish Archaeologist. Daughter of engineer and director Johan Albert Rydh (1852–1931) and Matilda Josefina Westlund, teacher at elementary school. School and from ...

  • RYLANDS, Cyril Alexander

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

  • 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 at Jan ...

  • SPRENGER, Balthasar —> B. SPRINGER
    SPRENGER, Balthasar —> B. SPRINGER
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