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  • SABBATHIER, Paul

    SABBATHIER, Paul. 18?? — 15.5.1909. French Schoolteacher and Indologist. Vedic scholar, a student of Bergaigne and de Saussure. In 1899 living ...

  • SACHAU, Eduard

    SACHAU, Eduard. Neumünster/Holstein 20.7.1845 — Berlin 17.9.1930. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Professor in Berlin. Son of Claus Jacob S. Studies of Oriental, especially ...

  • SADOUS, Alfred de

    SADOUS, Alfred de. Paris 1815 — 1???. French Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Probably Burnouf’s student. Agrégé de lettres 1840, dr.-ès-lettres 1847 Paris. ...

  • SAFAREWICZ, Jan

    SAFAREWICZ, Jan. Daugavpils (Latvia) 8.2.1904 — Cracow 9.4.1992. Polish IE Linguist. Professor at Krakow. Son of tax official, lost early his parentsa and grew up with his uncle, a ...

  • SAGI, Alexander

    SAGI, Alexander. Kispet (now Budapest XIX) 16.5.1929 — Grenzach 22.7.1993. Hungarian Catholic Priest and Psychologist in Austria and Germany. Son of Stefan S., ...

  • ŞĂINEANU (Sainéan), Lazar

    ŞĂINEANU, Lazăr (Lazare Sainéan, originally Eliezer Schein). Ploieşti 23.4.1859 — Paris 11.5.1934. Romanian Romance Linguist, also interested in IE and Sanskrit. Born in a ...

  • SAINT-MARTIN, Antoine-Jean

    SAINT-MARTIN, Antoine-Jean. Paris 17.1.1791 — Paris 17.7.1832 (SdeS says 10.7.). French Oriental (mainly Armenian) Scholar. Son of a tradesman, ...

  • SALDANHA, Antonio de

    SALDANHA, Antonio de. Mazagão (El Jadida in Morocco) 1598 — Rachol 15.12.1663. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India. Son of Portuguese father and Italian ...

  • SALDANHA, Mariano José

    SALDANHA, Mariano Jose Luis de Gonzaga. Ucassaim, Bardez, Goa 21.6.1878 — 1975. Portuguese (Goanese) Indologist. Professor in Lisbon. Educated at Liceu ...

  • SALEMANN, Carl G. (Karl Germanovič Zaleman)

    SALEMANN, Carl Hermann (Karl Germanovič Zaleman). Reval (Tallinn) 28.12.1849 (9.1.1850) — Petrograd 30.11.(13.2.)1916. Russian ...

  • SALISBURY, Edward Elbridge

    SALISBURY, Edward Elbridge. Boston, Mass. 6.4.1814 — New Haven, Conn. 5.2.1901. U.S. Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Professor in New Haven. Son ...

  • SALLET, Alfred von

    SALLET, Alfred Friedrich Constantin von. Reichau bei Nimptsch, Silesia (now Niemcza in Poland) 19.7.1842 — Berlin 25.11.1897. German Numismatist. Son of poet Friedrich von S. (d. 1843) and Caroline von Burgsdorff, in 1849 ...

  • SALOMONS (Prooije-S.), Henriette Johanna Wilhelmina

    SALOMONS (Prooije-S.), Henriette Johanna Wilhelmina. Rotterdam 20.5.1882 — the Hague 23.8.1959. Dutch Indologist. ...

  • SALT, Henry

    SALT, Henry. Lichfield 14.6.1780 — Desuke near Alexandria, Egypt 30.10.1827. British Diplomat, Traveller, Collector of Antiquities and Pioneer of Egyptology. Son of physician Thomas Salt and Alice Butt, educated in Lichfield ...

  • SALVIONI, Carlo

    SALVIONI, Carlo. Bellinzona 3.3.1858— Milano 20.10.1920. Swiss Linguist in Italy. Professor in Milano. Son of Carno S., a printer, and Martina Borsa, educated ...

  • SALYS, Antanas

    SALYS, Antanas. Reketé 21.7.1902— Philadelphia 31.7.1972. Lithuanian IE and Baltic Linguist, later in the U.S.A. Studies at Kaunas and Leipzig (Trautmann). Ph.D. 1929. ...

  • SAMMAN, Herbert Frederick

    SAMMAN, Herbert Frederick. 1871 — 1940. British Civil Servant in India. In 1892-1919 served in Bengal. In 1922-35 Lecturer in Bengali at Cambridge. Married, at least one son.

    Publications: Nothing found.

    Sources: A ...

  • SAMPSON, John

    SAMPSON, John. Schull, County Cork 25.2.1862 — West Kirkby, Cheshire 9.11.1931. British (Irish) Gipsy Scholar. Son of James S., a chemist and mining ...

  • SAMUELLS, Edward Alexander.

    SAMUELLS, Edward Alexander. Bapt. Westmoreland, Jamaica 28.12.1814 — Surrey 23.12.1860. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Paul Stevens S. Member of Bengal ...

  • SAMUELLS, William Leycester

    SAMUELLS, William Leycester. Patna 14.7.1841 — 1899. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of —> E.A.S. From 1857 served in Bengal. As captain, ...

  • SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO
    SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO, Paulinus a —> PAULINUS A SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO.
  • SANDBERG, Graham

    SANDBERG, Samuel Louis Graham. Oughtibridge, Yorkshire 9.12.1851 — Bournemouth 2.3.1905. British Priest and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Paul Louis S., ...

  • SANDEGREN, Johannes

    SANDEGREN, Johannes  Teodor Hjalmar. Madurai 20.11.1883 — Uppsala 15.11.1962. Swedish Missionary in South India. Son of Carl Jacob S., a missionary in South India (since 1869), and Theodore Kremmer, daughter of ...

  • SANDERSON, Daniel.

    SANDERSON, Daniel. 1810 — 1???. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in India. Methodist missionary in Mysore State (Bangalore, Mysore, Tumkur, Gubbi) in 1842-67. Back ...

  • SANDFORD, Walter

    SANDFORD, Walter. 1848 — 1???. British Civil Servant or Officer (?) in India. Son of John S. In Secunderabad (1880), soon in London ...

  • SANGERMANO, Vincentius.

    SANGERMANO, Vincentius. Arpino 1758 — Livorno 28.7.1819. Father. Italian Barnabite Missionary in Burma, a Scholar of Pāli and Burmese. Sent to Burma in 1782. ...

  • SANTA ANNA (Santana), Francisco Xavier de

    SANTA ANNA (Santana), Francisco Xavier de (lay Raffaello Pescetto). 17?? — Verapoly (?) 7.12.1844. Italian Carmelite Missionary and Konkani Scholar in India. Finally ...

  • SANTA RITA E SOUSA, José de

    SANTA RITA E SOUSA, José de. 1865 — 1940 Apparently an Indian from Konkan, a Catholic Priest. Professor of Konkani at Esc. Superior ...

  • SANTANA RODRIGUES, António Aleixo de.

    SANTANA RODRIGUES, António Aleixo de. Salsete 1887 — Lisbon 1966. Portuguese (probably Goanese) Physician and Author. Made Tagore known in Portugal.

  • SÃO MIGUEL, Gaspar de

    SÃO MIGUEL, Gaspar de. 1595? — 1647. Born in Portugal. Franciscan priest and missionary in India.

    SAPIR, Edward

    SAPIR, Edward. Lauenburg, Pomerania (now Lębork, Poland) 26.1.1884 — New Haven 4.2.1939. U.S. Linguist and Anthropologist. Born in a Lithuanian Jewish family, which emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1890. Grew up in Richmond, ...

  • SASSETTI, Filippo

    SASSETTI, Filippo. Florence 26/28.9.1540 — Goa 3.9.1588. Italian Traveller. Son of a wealthy merchant, he studied at Pisa 1568-73 and thus knew Latin ...

  • SAUER, Wilhelm

    SAUER, Wilhelm. 18?? — 1???. German Schoolteacher. Gymnasium Professor in Stuttgart. In his study he compared Indian and German epic legends.

  • SAUNDERS, Arthur Leslie

    SAUNDERS, Arthur Leslie. London 7.3.1862 — 31.10.1935. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Indian Religions. Son of Arthur William S. Studies at Oxford ...

  • SAUNDERS, Kenneth J.

    SAUNDERS, Kenneth James. Cape Town 10.1.1882 — 1937. British (?) Missionary and Buddhist Scholar in Sri Lanka and India, finally in ...

  • SAUNDERS, Virginia

    SAUNDERS, Virginia. 18?? — 19??. U.S. Indologist. Living in New York City.

    Publications: “Portrait ...

  • SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de

    SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de. Geneva 26.9.1857 — Vufflens-le-Château, Vaud 22.2.1913. Swiss Linguist. Professor in Geneva. Son of Henri Louis Frédéric de S., ...

  • SAVIDGE, Frederick W.

    SAVIDGE, Frederick William. Stretham, Cambridgeshire 1862 — London 20.9.1936. British Baptist Missionary in North-East India. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived ...

  • SCALABRINO BORSANI, Giuseppina

    SCALABRINO BORSANI, Giuseppina (or G. Borsani Scalabrino). Milano 9.5.1910 — 22.2.1991. Italian Indologist. Professor in ...

  • SCALIGERO, Massimo

    SCALIGERO, Massimo (nom-de-plume of Antonio Massimo Sgabelloni). Veroli 17.9.1906 — Rome 26.1.1980. Italian Esoterist (Follower of Evola) and Steinerian. Journalist in Rome, no ...

  • SCANLAN, Charles Arthur Rose

    SCANLAN, Charles Arthur Rose. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India (?). In 1872/79 he was Assistant Surveyor in Topographical Survey of India, Calcutta, worked in Gwalior and Central India.

    ŠČERBATSKOJ, Fëdor Ippolitovič (Theodor Scherbatskoy)

    ŠČERBATSKOJ, Fëdor Ippolitovič (Theodor Scherbatskoy). Keltse, Poland 19.9.(1.10.)1866 — Borovoe, Kazakhstan 18.3.1942. Russian Indologist, specialist of Buddhist Philosophy. The name is ...

  • SCERBO, Francesco

    SCERBO, Francesco. Marcellinara (Catanzaro) 7.10.1849 — 13.10.Rome 1927. Italian Linguist and Oriental (Hebrew & Sanskrit) Scholar. Professor in Florence. Of modest ...

  • SCHACHT, Hans

    SCHACHT, Hans. Gränichen, Aargau 21.3.1863 — 19??. Swiss Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Educated at Collège classique de Sion and Gymn. classique de Lausanne. ...

  • SCHACK, Adolf Friedrich, Graf von

    SCHACK, Adolf Friedrich, Graf von. Brüsewitz near Schwerin 2.8.1815 — Rome 14.4.1894. German Poet and Translator of Oriental Classics. Born in a well ...

  • SCHAEDER, Hans Heinrich

    SCHAEDER, Hans Heinrich. Göttingen 31.1.1896 — Göttingen 13.3.1957. German Iranian and Semitic Scholar. Professor in Berlin and Göttingen. Son of Erich ...

  • SCHAEFFER, Heinrich August Eduard

    SCHAEFFER,  Heinrich August Eduard. Erfurt 27.6.1842 — Trankebar 30.1.1890. Rev. German Missionary in India. After mission school studied theology at Leipzig. In 1864 went to India, worked mainly in Trankebar, finally as ...

  • SCHAENZLIN (Schänzlin), Gottlieb L.

    SCHAENZLIN (Schänzlin), Gottlieb L. Pfullingen near Reutlingen 25.5.1877 — Springfield, Clark, Ohio 27.9.1963. Rev. German Methodist Missionary in India, then in the U.S.A. Son of Johann Jakob Sch. M.A. 1921 Johns Hopkins, ...

  • SCHAFER, R.

    SCHAFER, R. —> SHAFER, Robert L.

  • SCHÄFFER, Philipp.

    SCHÄFFER, Philipp. Königsberg 16.11.1894 — Berlin-Plötzensee 16.5.1943. German Student of Indology, then Sinologist and Activist against Nazism. Son of an officer, grew up ...

  • SCHANZ, Hugo

    SCHANZ, Hugo. Schöneck, Voigtland 8.11.1834 — Bobenneukirchen 30.1.1892. German Missionary in South India. From 1853 studies of Theology at Leipzig. Ordained in 1861 in Leipzig and left for India. Worked in different parts ...

  • SCHARPÉ, Adriaan Alberik Maria

    SCHARPÉ, Adriaan Alberik Maria. Leuven 29.10.1913 — 7.3.1986. Belgian Indologist. Professor in Gent ...

  • SCHAUFFELBERGER, Daniel Franz.

    SCHAUFFELBERGER, Daniel Franz. Paris 1819 — 1???. Swiss Student of Classical Philology and Indology. Son of Daniel Franz Sch. of Neuchâtel and Eleonora ...

  • SCHAYER, Stanisław

    SCHAYER, Stanisław. Sędziszów 8.5.1899 — Otwock 1.12.1941. Polish Indologist. Professor in Warsaw. Son of Antoni and Maria Schayer. From 1916 studies ...

  • SCHEFTELOWITZ, Isidor

    SCHEFTELOWITZ, Isidor Isaac. Sandersleben/Anhalt 1.5.1875 — Oxford 17.12. 1934. German (Jewish) Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor and Rabbi in Köln. Son of a ...

  • SCHELLER, Meinrad

    SCHELLER, Meinrad. Zürich 17.5.1921 — 24.4.1991. Swiss Sanskrit and IE Scholar. Professor in Zürich. Studies at Zürich under M. Leumann, Pokorny ...

  • SCHENKL, Karl

    SCHENKL, Karl. Brno 11.12.1826 — Graz 20.9.1900. Austrian Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Son of a schoolteacher and classical philologist. Studies of classics ...

  • SCHERER, Anton

    SCHERER, Anton. Munich 31.8.1901 — Heidelberg 7.5.1981. German IE Scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of an artisan, educated at Maxgymnasium in Munich. Studied IE, Greek, ...

  • SCHERMAN, Christine

    SCHERMAN, Christine (née Reindl). 2.12.1865 — Hanson, Mass. 17.3.1940. German Anthropologist, specialist of Burma. From 1889 wife of —> L. S., often participated in ...

  • SCHERMAN, Lucian

    SCHERMAN, Lucian. Posen (now Poznań in Poland) 10.10.1864 — Hanson, Mass. 29.5.1946. German Indologist and Anthropologist. Professor in Munich. Husband of ...

  • SCHERZL, Robert (Robert Ivanovič Šercl)

    SCHERZL, Robert (Robert Ivanovič Šercl’). 18?? — 1???. Czech IE Scholar in Ukraina. Younger brother of —> V. I. Scherzl. Docent at Harkov (Harkiv) ...

  • SCHERZL, Vincenz (Vikentij Ivanovič Šercl)

    SCHERZL, Vincenz (Vikentij Ivanovič Šercl, Čeněk Šercl). Beroun, Bohemia (Czech) 28.9.1843 — Ljubljana 4.12.1906. Czech Indologist and IE Scholar in Ukraina ...

  • SCHIEFNER, Franz Anton (A. A. Šifner)

    SCHIEFNER, Franz Anton von (Anton Antonovič Šifner). Reval (Tallinn) 6.(18.)7.1817 — St. Petersburg 4.(16.)11.1879. Russian ...

  • SCHIERLITZ, Ernst

    SCHIERLITZ, Ernst. Schleissheim near Munich 13.1.1902 — Munich 11.2.1940. German Indologist and Sinologist in China. Son of Josef S., a post ...

  • SCHIERN, Frederik Eginhard Amadeus

    SCHIERN, Frederik Eginhard Amadeus Høst. Copenhagen 22.11.1816 — Frbg. 16.12.1882. Danish Historian and Classical Scholar. Son of Jens Kragh Høst (1772–1844), an author, and ...

  • SCHILLING VON CANSTADT, Paul, Freiherr (Pavel Lvovič, Baron)

    SCHILLING VON CANSTADT, Paul Ludwig, Freiherr (Cannstatt, Russian Pavel Lvovič Šilling fon Kanštadt, Baron). Real (Tallinn) 5.(16.)4.1786 — St.Petersburg ...

  • SCHINDLER, Jochem

    SCHINDLER, Jochem. Amstetten, Niederösterreich 8.11.1944 — Prague 24.12.1994. Austrian IE Linguist. Studies of IE and Romance Linguistics at Vienna and Würzburg. Ph.D. 1972. In ...

  • SCHIRMEISEN, K.

    SCHIRMEISEN, Karl. Senftenberg, Bohemia (now Žamberk) 13.12.1868 — Ahrweiler, Germany 11.8.1958. German (of Czech) Scientist (Mineralogist) interested in history and archaeology. Dr. Living ...

  • SCHLAGINTWEIT-SAKÜNLÜNSKI, Hermann von

    SCHLAGINTWEIT-SAKÜNLÜNSKI, Hermann von. Munich 13.5.1826 — Munich 19.1. 1882. German Traveller in India and Central Asia. Son of oculist Joseph Schl. and Rosalia Seidl, brother ...

  • SCHLAGINTWEIT, Adolf

    SCHLAGINTWEIT, Adolf. Munich 9.1.1829 — Kashgar 27.8.1857. German Natural Scientist and Traveller in India and Central Asia. Son of oculist Joseph Schl. and ...

  • SCHLAGINTWEIT, Emil

    SCHLAGINTWEIT, Emil. Munich 7.7.1835 — Zweibrücken 20.10.1904. German Indologist and Tibetan Scholar. Younger brother of —> Adolf, Hermann, and Robert S. ...

  • SCHLAGINTWEIT, Robert von

    SCHLAGINTWEIT, Robert von. Munich 27.10.1833 — Giessen 6.6.1885. German Traveller in India and Central Asia. Son of oculist Joseph Schl. and Rosalia Seidl, brother of ...

  • SCHLEGEL, August Wilhelm von

    SCHLEGEL, August Wilhelm von. Hannover 5.9.1767 — Bonn 12.5.1845. German Indologist, Classical Scholar and Art Historian. Professor in Bonn. Son of ...

  • SCHLEGEL, Friedrich

    SCHLEGEL, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (1814 von Schl.). Hannover 10.3.1772 — Dresden 12.1.1829. German ...

  • SCHLEICHER, August

    SCHLEICHER, August. Meiningen/Thüringen 1821 — Jena 6.12.1868. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor in Prague and Jena. Son of a physician, ...

  • SCHLUMBERGER, Daniel.

    SCHLUMBERGER, Daniel Théodore. Mulhouse (Alsace, then Mühlhausen in German Elsaß) 19.12.1904 — Princeton NJ 21.10.1972. French (Alsatian) Archaeologist of Afghanistan. Son ...

  • SCHMID, Bernhard

    SCHMID,  Ludwig Bernhard Ehregott. Lobeda (now part of Jena) 20.3.1788 — Calicut (Kozhikode) 20.10.1857. Rev. German Missionary in South India. Son of Rev. Rudolf Ludwig Schmid. After gymnasium in Naumburg studied theology at Jena. Worked ...

  • SCHMID, Toni (Antonia Elisabeth Magdalena)

    SCHMID, Toni (Antonia Elisabeth Magdalena). Fischamend near Vienna 25.9.1897 — Uppsala 16.12.1972. Austrian Scholar of Religious History and Tibetan Iconography in Sweden. Swedish citizen 1927. Daughter of a wealthy mill-owner, Georg Josef ...

  • SCHMIDT, Erich Friedrich

    SCHMIDT, Erich Friedrich. Baden-Baden 13.9.1897 — Santa Barbara Calif. 3.10.1964. German Archaeologist in the U.S.A. Son of Erhard Friedrich S. and Frida Loeffler. ...

  • SCHMIDT, Gernot

    SCHMID, Toni (Antonia Elisabeth Magdalena). 25.9.1897 — Uppsala 16.12.1972. Austrian Scholar of Religious History and Tibetan Iconography in Sweden. Daughter of a wealthy ...

  • SCHMIDT, Gernot

    SCHMIDT, Gernot. 29.7.1931 — 4.7.1991. German IE Scholar. Professor in Bonn. Ph.D. 1962 F.U.Berlin (under Kienle).  Professor of IE Linguistics at Bonn (1987).

  • SCHMIDT, Isaak Jakob

    SCHMIDT, Isaak Jakob (Jakov Ivanovič Šmidt). Amsterdam 14.10.1779 — St.Petersburg 27.8.(8.9.)1847. Dutch-born Central Asian Scholar in Russia. Academician in St. Petersburg. ...

  • SCHMIDT, Johannes Friedrich Heinrich

    SCHMIDT, Johannes Friedrich Heinrich. Prenzlau 29.7.1843 — Berlin 4.7.1901. German IE Scholar. Professor in Berlin. Orphaned (mother died 1844, father 1852) he grew ...

  • SCHMIDT, József

    SCHMIDT, József. Vác 24.12.1868 — Budapest 1.10.1933. Hungarian Indologist. Professor in Budapest. Son of a house-painter, studied at Budapest under Mayr. ...

  • SCHMIDT, Kurt

    SCHMIDT, Kurt. Berlin 1879 — Berlin 1975. German Journalist and Bauddha. Dr. iuris 1901 Rostock. Worked as journalist in Munich, Dresden and Leipzig, ...

  • SCHMIDT, Richard

    SCHMIDT, Johann Wilhelm Richard. Aschersleben 29.1.1866 — Münster/Westfalen 15.11.1939. German Indologist. Professor in Münster. Son of a teacher. After school in Eisleben ...

  • SCHMIDT, Wilhelm

    SCHMIDT, Heinrich Wilhelm Arnold. Hörde near Dortmund 16.2.1868 — Fribourg 10.2.1953. Father. Famous German Anthropologist and Linguist in Austria ...

  • SCHMIDTS, Peter

    SCHMIDTS, Peter (Pēteris Šmits, Russian Pëtr Petrovič Šmidt). Rauna, Latvia (then of Russia) 25.12.1869 — Riga 5.6.1938. Latvian Linguist. Professor of IE Antiquity and Baltic Philology at Riga. Studied ...

  • SCHMITT, Alfred

    SCHMITT, Alfred. Rixdorf (Berlin) 1.4.1888 — Munich 1.1.1976. German IE Linguist. Born in a Herrnhutian (Moravian) family, educated in Niesky and Liegnitz, matriculated ...

  • SCHMÖLDERS, Franz August

    SCHMÖLDERS, Franz August. Rhede bei Bocholt, Westfalen 28.11.1809 — Breslau 21.2.1880. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Professor ...

  • SCHNEIDER (Šnejder), Aleksandra Petrovna

    SCHNEIDER (Šnejder), Aleksandra Petrovna. 1863 — 1942. Russian Artist. Niece of  —> Minaev. Daughter of Pëtr Aleksandrovič S. and Elizaveta Pavlovna Minaev (d. 1875, after her husband). After the death of ...

  • SCHNEIDER (Šnejder), Varvara Petrovna

    SCHNEIDER (Šnejder), Varvara Petrovna. 1860 — 1941. Russian Artist. In 1909 she was member of the building committee of the St.Petersburg Buddhist temple. For the rest see under her sister —> Aleksandra ...

  • SCHNEIDER, Karl

    SCHNEIDER, Karl. Brückrachdorf, Kr. Neuwied 18.4.1912 — Münster 26.12.1998. German Linguist, mainly Anglist and Germanist, but in his early career wrote on IE and Tocharian. Studies in 1932-36 at Giessen, Ph.D. ...

  • SCHNEIDER, Ulrich

    SCHNEIDER, Ulrich. Peres, Kr. Borna (Sachsen) 2.4.1922 — 30.5.1992. German Indologist. Professor in Freiburg and Münster. In 1940 began studies of ...

  • SCHOEBEL, Charles (Karl)

    SCHOEBEL, Charles (Karl). Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin 20.10.1813 — Paris 8.12.1888. German Indologist, Ethnograph and Linguist in France. Lost early his father, the ...

  • SCHOENER, August

    SCHOENER, August Clemens. Bieswang, Bavaria 21.11.1872 — 19??. German Missionary in South India. After theology studies in 1890-94 at Munich and Erlangen worked as vicar in Passau in 1894-96. In 1896 left ...

  • SCHOFF, Wilfred Harvey

    SCHOFF, Wilfred Harvey. Newtonville MA 27.11.1874 — Lower Merion PA 14.9.1932. U.S. Historian of Commerce and Economy. Son of Frederic S. and Hannah ...

  • SCHÖHL, Hermann

    SCHÖHL, Hermann. Rufach, Oberelsass (now Rouffach, Haut-Rhin) 28.4.1882 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of the director of an agricultural school. After ...

  • SCHOLBERG, Henry Caesar

    SCHOLBERG, Henry Caesar. Rushford, Minnesota 11.10.1879 — Daytona Beach, Florida 2.10.1969. U.S. Methodist Missionary and Hindi Scholar. Born in a modest family of ...

  • SCHOMERUS, Hilko Wiardo

    SCHOMERUS, Hilko Wiardo. Marienkate/Ostfriesland 7.1.1879 — Halle 13.11.1945. German Missionary and Indologist (Tamil Scholar). In India 1902-12, Professor in Halle. Son ...

  • SCHÖNBERG, Ignaz

    SCHÖNBERG, Ignaz. 1856 — Vienna 29.1.1886. Austrian (or German) Indologist. Son of Markus Schönberg and Johanna Chaja Katalin. Student of Bühler ...

  • SCHÖNBERG, Wolf Erich, Baron von

    SCHÖNBERG,  Wolf Erich, Baron von. Herzogswalde, Sachsen 30.4.1812 — Herzogswalde 14.5.1883. German Traveller. Son of Friedrich August Wolf v. S. and Henriette von Bühnau (who died in childbed). Studied forestry at the academies ...

  • SCHÖNBORN, Emil

    SCHÖNBORN, Emil. 18?? — 1???. German Student of Indology. In 1857 joined D.M.G. as student of theology and Oriental languages. Ph.D. 1862 Breslau. Probably became then teacher in Krotoschin (Krotoszyn) and ...

  • SCHÖNFELD, Karl

    SCHÖNFELD, Karl. Schaffhausen 1878 — Locarno 10.7.1949. Swiss Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1909/10 Zürich. After school and gymnasium in Winterthur studied in 1897-98 ...

  • SCHÖNWERTH, Sigurd.

    SCHÖNWERTH, Sigurd. Munich 9.10.1908 — 24.1.1994. German Bauddha. A Physician. Son of Alfred Schönwerth (1865–1941), a chirurgian. Studied medicine at Munich, degrees 1932 ...

  • SCHOR, R. I.

    SCHOR, R. I. —> ŠOR, R. I.

  • SCHOTERMAN, Jan Anthony

    SCHOTERMAN, Jan Anthony. Amersfoort 27.3.1948 — Amersfoort 29.6.1989. Dutch Indologist. Son of Willem Rudolf S. and Randi Oppedal. Educated in Amersfoort. ...

  • SCHOTSMAN-WOLFERS, Janine

    SCHOTSMAN-WOLFERS, Janine. 19?? — 17.3.1991. Belgian Art Historian, She was the Head of India and S.E. Asia department of Royal Museums of Art ...

  • SCHOTT, Magdalene

    SCHOTT, Magdalene Sophie (née Krafft). Barmen, Rheinprovinz 22.3.1899 — 19??. German Student of Indology. After gymnasium in Mannheim studied first medicine at Tübingen, but soon Germanistics at Münster, Berlin, Freiburg and Marburg. ...

  • SCHOTT, Wilhelm

    SCHOTT, Wilhelm Christian. Mainz 3.9.1807 — Berlin 21.1.1889. German Fenno-Ugric and Central Asian Scholar, and Sinologist. Son of merchant Johann Wilhelm Schott and ...

  • SCHRADER, Friedrich

    SCHRADER, Friedrich. Wolmirstedt, Prussia (now Sachsen-Anhalt) 19.11.1865 — Berlin 28.8.1922. German Oriental Scholar, Art Historian and Journalist. Educated in Magdeburg, studies at Halle ...

  • SCHRADER, Friedrich Otto

    SCHRADER, Friedrich Otto. Hamburg 19.3.1876 — Kiel 3.11.1961. German Indologist. Professor in Kiel. Son of a judge, educated in Hamburg. Following ...

  • SCHRADER, Otto

    SCHRADER, Otto. Weimar 28.3.1855 — Breslau 21.3.1919. German IE Scholar. Professor in Breslau. Son of Bernhard S., a civil servant, and ...

  • SCHRAM, Robert

    SCHRAM, Robert Gustav. Lemberg (Lviv) 18.1.1850 — Vienna 23.12.1923. Austrian Astronomer and Geodecist. Studies at Vienna. Dr. In 1872-73 briefly Assistant at Geneva observatory, ...

  • SCHRIJNEN, Joseph Charles François Hubert

    SCHRIJNEN, Joseph Charles François Hubert. Venlo 3.5.1869 — Nijmegen 26.1.1938. Mgr. Dutch IE Scholar. Professor in Nijmegen. Son of Adriaan S., a chemist, ...

  • SCHRÖDER, Dominik

    SCHRÖDER, Dominik. Eiweiler, Saarland 4.9.1910 — Ibid. 25.12.1974. SVD. German Catholic Missionary and Anthropologist in China. Studies in St.Wendel and St.Augustin. Ordained priest ...

  • SCHROEDER, Leopold Alexander von

    SCHROEDER, Leopold Alexander von. Dorpat (Tartu) 12.(24.)12.1851 — Vienna 8.2.1920. German (of Estonia) Indologist in Austria. Professor ...

  • SCHRÖTER, Friedrich Christian Gotthelf

    SCHRÖTER, Friedrich Christian Gotthelf. 1786 — Titalya, Bihar 14.7.1820. German Missionary in India. Born in Saxony, was educated as a missionary by Johann ...

  • SCHRÖTER, Julius Erich

    SCHRÖTER, Julius Erich. 1868 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1900 Leipzig. Apparently active in 1909, possibly as ...

  • SCHUBERT, Johannes

    SCHUBERT, Johannes Siegfried. Annaberg/Sächs. Erzgebirge 7.9.1896 — Leipzig 2.8.1976. German (East) Tibetan and Mongolian Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. Son of Guido ...

  • SCHUBRING, Walter

    SCHUBRING, Julius Hermann Walther (Walter). Lübeck 10.12.1881 — Hamburg 13.4.1969. German Indologist. Professor ...

  • SCHUCHARDT, Hugo

    SCHUCHARDT, Hugo. Gotha 4.2.1842 — Graz 21.4.1927. German Linguist in Austria. Professor in Graz. Son of Ernst Julius S., a lawyer, and Malvina von Bridel-Brideri. Gymnasium in Gotha. Began his studies ...

  • SCHULEMANN, Günther

    SCHULEMANN, Günther. Neisse/Schlesien (now Nysa in Poland) 26.8.1889 — Dresden 15.6.1964. German Philosopher and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Breslau. Son of ...

  • SCHULEMANN, Werner

    SCHULEMANN, Werner. Neisse/Schlesien (now Nysa in Poland) 4.5.1888 — Bonn 20.6.1975. German Pharmacologist interested in Lamaism. Son of Franz S. and Helene Meyer, ...

  • SCHULTZE, Benjamin

    SCHULTZE, Benjamin. Sonnenburg (now Słonsk in Poland) 1689 — 25.11.1760. German Missionary and Precursor of Indology. In India 1719-43. From Sonnenburg in Neumark. ...

  • SCHULTZE, Martin

    SCHULTZE, Martin. Nordhausen 11.1.1835 — Ellrich 10.9.1899. German Educator and Linguist. Son of organist Heinrich August S. and Wilhelmine Ebert. Matriculated 1855 from Nordhausen and began studis of theology at Halle. ...

  • SCHULTZE, Theodor

    SCHULTZE, Theodor. Oldenburg in Holstein 24.6.1824 — Potsdam 6.4.1898. German Lay Philosopher interested in Buddhism. Son of pharmacist Johann Andreas S. and Philippine Kregel. Studies ...

  • SCHULZ, Friedrich Eduard

    SCHULZ, Friedrich (Fritz) Eduard (Christoph Friedrich Ludwig Schulz). Darmstadt 12.7.1799 — Kurdistan, near Başkale fall 1829. German Oriental Scholar and Asian traveller. Son ...

  • SCHULZE, Friedrich Volkmar Paul

    SCHULZE, Friedrich Volkmar Paul (Frederick Volkomor P. Sch.). 18?? — 19??. Rev. German (?) Missionary in India (still 1931).

    Publications: A grammar of the Kuvi language. 252 p. Madras 1911.

    – The ...

  • SCHULZE, Wilhelm

    SCHULZE, Wilhelm. Burgsteinfurt, Westfalen 15.12.1863 — Neu-Babelsberg (Berlin) 15.1.1935. German IE Scholar, founder of the Berlin School. Professor in Berlin. Son of Rudolf ...

  • SCHURHAMMER, Georg

    SCHURHAMMER, Georg Otto. Unterglottertal/Südschwarzwald 25.9.1882 — Rome 2.11.1971. S.J. Father. German Historian of Catholic Missions in Asia, especially of Francisco Xavier. Educated in ...

  • SCHÜTZ, Carl

    SCHÜTZ, Carl Wilhelm. Bückeburg, Schaumburg-Lippe 14.4.1805 — Bielefeld 14.9.1892. German Indologist. Ph.D. Son of local pastor, Johann Gottfried S., gymnasium in ...

  • SCHUYLER, Montgomery

    SCHUYLER, Montgomery (Jr.). Stamford, Conn. 2.9.1877 — New York 1.11.1955. U.S. Diplomat and Indologist. Son of the elder Montgomery S. (1843–1914), ...

  • SCHWAB, Julius

    SCHWAB, Julius. 17.4.1852 — 1928. German Librarian and Student of Indology. Born in a Roman Catholic family. Studies at Munich under ...

  • SCHWAB, Raymond.

    SCHWAB, Raymond. Nancy 23.2.1884 — Paris 2.6.1956. French Author and Historian of Oriental Studies. Son of insurance director Alexandre S. and Léontine Lévy. ...

  • SCHWANBECK, Erwin Alexis

    SCHWANBECK, Erwin Alexis. Falkenberg/Pommern (now Jastrzębniki in Poland)) 13.11.1821 — Köln 8.1.1850. German Classical Scholar and Indologist. Studied classical ...

  • SCHWARTZ, Ben

    SCHWARTZ, Ben (Benjamin). 19?? — 26.12.1981. U.S. IE Linguist and Anatolian Scholar. Studies in New York University: A.B. and M.A. Ph.D. 193? Columbia. ...

  • SCHWARTZ, Christian Friedrich

    SCHWARTZ, Christian Friedrich (Schwarz, in India also called Swartz). Sonnenburg, Prussia (now Slońsk in Poland) 22.10.1726 (or 8.10. or 26.10.) — Tanjore (Tañcāvūr) 13.2.1798. ...

  • SCHWEIZER-SIDLER, Heinrich

    SCHWEIZER-SIDLER, Heinrich (originally H. Schweizer). Elgg, canton Zürich 12.9. 1815 — Zürich 30.3.1894. Swiss IE Scholar. Professor in Zürich. Son of the minister ...

  • SCHWENTNER, Ernst

    SCHWENTNER, Ernst. Schwerin, Mecklenburg 28.6.1890 — 197?. German Indo-Iranian, Tocharian and IE Scholar. Gymnasium in Schwerin. Ph.D. 1915 Münster (diss. on ...

  • SCHWYZER, Eduard

    SCHWYZER, Eduard. Zürich 15.2.1874 — Berlin 3.5.1943. Swiss IE Scholar in Germany. Professor in Zürich, Bonn and Berlin. Grandnephew of —> ...

  • SCOTT, Hugh Robert

    SCOTT, Hugh Robert. 1859 — 1929. Rev. Irish Presbyterian Missionary in India interested in Numismatics. M.A. Dr. Worked as missionary in Rajkot (1883-97) ...

  • SCOTT, James George

    SCOTT, James George. Dairsie, Fife 25.12.1851 — Petworth, West Sussex 4.4.1935. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Journalist in Burma. Son of George Scott, a Presbyterian minister, and Mary Forsythe. Lost ...

  • SCOTT, Jonathan

    SCOTT, Jonathan. Shrewsbury 1754 — Shrewsbury 11.2.1829. British Colonial Officer and Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar in India. Son of Jonathan Scott and ...

  • SCRAFTON, Luke

    SCRAFTON, Luke. 1732 (?) — at sea near Cape of Good Hope 1770. Britishman in E.I.C.’s service. Assisted Clive. After the Battle of Plassey Resident at Durbar of Murshidabad, then in Calcutta Council. ...

  • SCRIBA, Karl

    SCRIBA, Karl. 18?? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1902 Würzburg (under Jolly). One Dr. KS was born in 20.7.1880 and died ...

  • SEBASTIANI, Leopoldo

    SEBASTIANI, Leopoldo. Rome 1770 — Rome 5.9.1843. Italian Missionary. Son of Vincenzo S. Worked as sub-librarian in Vatican before taking missionary career, working for Propaganda Fide. Before 1821 he had spent ...

  • ŠEBESTOVÁ, Anna

    ŠEBESTOVÁ, Anna. Turnov 8.2.1892 — 19??. Czech Student of Indology. Studied at Charles University in Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1918/19.

  • SEDDON, Charles Norman

    SEDDON, Charles Norman. Rock Ferry, Cheshire18.12.1870 — 27.3.1950. British Civil Servant and Oriental (Marathi and Persian) Scholar. Son of Charles John S. and ...

  • SEDGWICK, Leonard J.

    SEDGWICK, Leonard John (Jack). Bristol ?.3.1883 — Bombay 27.6.1925. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Botany and Religion. Son of ...

  • SEELY, John Benjamin

    SEELY, John Benjamin. 17?? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain in Bombay Native Infantry. He gave the first detailed ...

  • SEGERSTEDT, Torgny

    SEGERSTEDT, Torgny. Karlstad 1.11.1876 — Göteborg 31.3.1945. Swedish Journalist and Historian of Religion. Son of Albrekt S., teacher and ...

  • SEIDEL, August

    SEIDEL, August. Helmstedt 29.9.1863 — 1916. German Oriental Scholar. In 1889-1903 General Secretary of Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft in Berlin.

    Publications: Theoretisch-praktische Grammatik der Hindustani-Grammatik, mit Übungsstücke in arabischer Schrift, und ein deutsch–hindustani Wörterbuch. ...

  • SEIDENSTÜCKER, Karl (Girimānanda)

    SEIDENSTÜCKER, Karl Bernhard (Girimānanda, Bruno Freydank). Gerbstedt 23.3.1876 — Leipzig 29.10.1936. German Bauddha and Buddhist Scholar. Son of a ...

  • SELIGMAN, Brenda Zara

    SELIGMAN, Brenda Zara (née Salaman). London 26.6.1883 — Kensington 2.1.1965. British Anthropologist. Daughter of Myer and Sarah Salaman, studied pre-medical biology ...

  • SELIGMAN, Charles Gabriel

    SELIGMAN, Charles Gabriel (until 1914 Seligmann). London 24.12.1873 — 19.1.1940. British Anthropologist. Originally ...

  • SELL, Edward

    SELL, Edward. Wantage, Berkshire 24.1.1839 — Bangalore 15.2.1932. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of William John Sell. Educated at Church Missionary College in Islington, London. Ordained deacon 1862, priest 1867. In ...

  • SELLE, Götz von

    SELLE, Götz von. Torgau 28.1.1893 — Göttingen 6.10.1956. German Historian and Iranian scholar. Son of Hans von S., an officer (later colonel), and ...

  • SEMENCOV, Vsevolod Sergeevič

    SEMENCOV, Vsevolod Sergeevič. Rudne-Garbovka, Žitomirskaja oblast’, Ukraina 2.7.1941 — Moscow 12.1.1986. Russian Indologist. Son of Sergej Pavlovič S., a forest engineer, and Varvara Ivanovna ...

  • SEMIČOV, Boris Vladimirovič

    SEMIČOV, Boris Vladimirovič. St.Petersburg 26.10.(8.11.)1900 — Tomsk 17.2.1984. Russian Indologist and Tibetan Scholar. Son of an official. Graduated 1929 from Leningrad ...

  • SENART, Émile Charles Marie

    SENART, Émile Charles Marie. Reims 26.3.1847 — Paris 21.2.1928. French Indologist. Private Scholar in Paris. Born in a rich merchant family ...

  • SENN, Alfred

    SENN, Alfred. Blotzheim, Alsace (then Germany) 19.3.1899 — Ashford CT 9.2.1978. Swiss Linguist of Baltic, German and IE in Lithuania and the U.S.A. ...

  • ŠERCL, Vikentij Ivanovič
    ŠERCL, Vikentij Ivanovič —> SCHERZL, V. I.
  • SEREBRJAKOV, Igor’ Dmitrievič

    SEREBRJAKOV, Igor’ Dmitrievič. Sartana, Mariupolsk, gub. Ekaterinoslav (obl. Doneck) 14.(27.)11.1917 — Ibid. 20.9.1998. Russian Indologist. Son of a worker. Graduated 1940 ...

  • SETON-KARR, Walter Scott

    SETON-KARR, Walter Scott. 23.1.1822 — West Brompton, London 22.11.1910. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Andrew S-K, of Roxburghshire (Scotland), and Alicia Anne Rawlinson. He was a godson of Walter Scott. ...

  • SEWELL, Robert

    SEWELL, Robert. Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 4.6.1845 — London 30.12.1925. British Civil Servant, Historian, and Indologist in India. Son of Robert ...

  • SEYMOUR, Lionel William

    SEYMOUR, Lionel William. Bombay 1855? — Surrey 15.4.1936. British Physician in India. Son of the elder L.W.S. and Catharine Burton. Worked in Bombay Civil Service, in 1905 to the U.K. Worked as physician. Married ...

  • SHAFER, Robert Lloyd

    SHAFER, Robert Lloyd (Schafer). 1893 — 1969. U.S. Linguist and Sino-Tibetan scholar. Ph.D. Director of Sino-Tibetan Linguistic Project at U.C. Berkeley. ...

  • SHAKESPEAR, Charles Bowles —> BOWLES, Charles
    SHAKESPEAR, Charles Bowles —> BOWLES, Charles
  • SHAKESPEAR, John (elder)

    SHAKESPEAR, John (elder). 14.8.1774 — Langley Priory, Leicestershire 14.6.1858. British Oriental (Hindi/Urdu, Arabic and Persian) Scholar. Professor in Addiscombe. Son of ...

  • SHAKESPEAR, John (younger)

    SHAKESPEAR, John. Indore 1.9.1861 — 1942. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel Sir Richmond Campbell Sh. (1812–61, ...

  • SHARPE, Eric John

    SHARPE, Eric John. Lancaster 19.9.1933 — Sydney 19.10.2000. British Scholar of Comparative Religion in Australia. Born in a working class family. In his teens became close to Methodist church and began ...

  • SHARPE, Phoebe Elizabeth

    SHARPE, Phoebe Elizabeth (née Lavnder). Bangalore 1888 — 8.1.1941. Miss. British Authoress interested ...

  • SHAW, John

    SHAW, John. 5.9.1827 — 1???. British (Scottish) Lawyer in India. Son of David Shaw of Ayr and Glencairn Dalrymple Armstrong. Registrar of the High Court, Madras (1875). Returned to the U.K. ...

  • SHAW, Robert Barkley

    SHAW, Robert Barkley. London 12.7.1839 — Mandalay, Burma 15.6.1879. British Traveller in Central Asia, then Civil Servant in Burma. ...

  • SHAW, William

    SHAW, William. 18?? — 19??. British (Irish) Civil Servant in North-East India. In 1919-27 subdivisional officer in Tamenglong in north-western part of the Manipur State.

  • SHEA, David

    SHEA, David. Limerick county 1777 — Haileybury 10.5.1836. British (Irish) Persian Scholar. Professor at Haileybury. Son of Daniel Shea, a farmer. Studied Classics at Dublin from 1793, in 1898 expelled as nationalist, having ...

  • SHERLOCK, Woodford Wright

    SHERLOCK, Woodford Wright. Blackrock, Cork 1836 — 1912. Born in Ireland. Apparently colonial officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Wright Sh. and Celeste Mathieu. M.A. Lecturer (University Teacher) in Hindustani ...

  • SHERRING, Matthew Atmore

    SHERRING, Matthew Atmore. Halstead, Essex 26.9.1826 — Benares 10.8.1880. Rev. British Missionary and Ethnologist in India. Son ...

  • SHIRREFF, Alexander Grierson

    SHIRREFF, Alexander Grierson. 1883 — 2.9.1962. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Francis Archibald Patullo Sh. and his wife Elizabeth Louisa. B.A. I.C.S. officer, in the 1930s Collector of Jaunpur. Married Dulcie ...

  • SHIRT, George

    SHIRT, George. Cawthorne, Yorkshire 1843 — Quetta 16.6.1886. Rev. British Missionary in India. Educated in London and Cambridge (B.A. 1864). Left for India in 1866 ...

  • SHORE, John

    SHORE, John (1798 first baron Teignmouth). London 5. or 8.10.1751 — London 14.2.1834. British Colonial Officer. Son of E.I.C. employee Thomas Shore and Dorothy ...

  • SHOWERS, Charles Lionel

    SHOWERS, Charles Lionel. 5.2.1816 — Geneva 13.9.1895. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Howe Daniel Sh. and Harriet Ashe. Joined army 1835 and left for India. As Colonel in 1869 Political ...

  • SHUTTLEWORTH, Henry Lee

    SHUTTLEWORTH, Henry Lee Hawden. Scoforth, Lancashire 14.5.1882 — New Delhi 28.2.1960. British Civil Servant in India. The only son of George Edward Sh., a physician, and Edith Mary Hadwen. Educated in Shrewsbury, from ...

  • SIAUVE, Suzanne

    SIAUVE, Suzanne. Lille 27.12.1919 — 12.8.1975. French Indologist. Daughter of a gynaecological surgeon, went to school in Lille. From 1939 studied ...

  • SICÉ, François Eugène

    SICÉ, François Eugène. 1 Pondichéry 10.7.1816 — 28.3.1881. French Colonial Officer in India, interested in Indian law. Son of ...

  • SIDDONS, George Richard

    SIDDONS, George Richard. Fort Marlborough, Bengkulu, Sumatra 1.12.1809 — at sea ?.7.1857. British Colonial Officer in India. Major. Son ...

  • SIECKE, Ernst Ludwig Albert Karl

    SIECKE, Ernst Ludwig Albert Karl. Spandau 19.1.1846 — 1935. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Schoolteacher in Berlin. After school and gymnasium ...

  • SIEG, Emil H.

    SIEG, Emil Hermann. Breitenteich bei Angermünde 12.8.1866 — Göttingen 23.1.1951. German Indologist and Tocharian Scholar. Professor in Kiel and Göttingen. Son ...

  • SIEGERT, Hans

    SIEGERT, Hans. 19?? — 19??. German IE Linguist. Wüst’s student at Munich, in 1942 in the Wehrmacht. Member of NSDAP.

    Publications: “Zur Geschichte der Begriffe ‘Arier’ und ‘arisch’”, W&S 22, 1941-42, 73-99.

    Sources: Briefly in C. Hutton, Linguistics in ...

  • SIEGFRIED, Rudolf Thomas

    SIEGFRIED, Rudolf Thomas. Dessau 1830 — Dublin 10.1.1863. German IE and Celtic Scholar in Ireland. Professor in Dublin. From Dessau. Studied 1850-51 ...

  • SIEGLING, Wilhelm

    SIEGLING, Wilhelm. Erfurt 14.1.1880 — Berlin 22.1.1946. German Indologist and Tocharian Scholar. Research Scholar in Berlin. Educated in Erfurt and Eisleben. ...

  • SIERKSMA, Fokke

    SIERKSMA, Fokke. Dantumawoude near Dokkum 30.5.1917 — Leiden 22.8.1977. Dutch Scholar of Comparative Religion and Tibetan. Born in a religious family, ...

  • SIEVERS, Eduard

    SIEVERS, Eduard. Lippoldsberg an der Weser, Hessen 25.11.1850 — Leipzig 30.3.1932. German Phonetician, Germanic and IE Linguist. Professor in Leipzig. Son of Friedrich ...

  • SIIGER, Halfdan

    SIIGER, Halfdan (Hans Christian Julius Johannes Sophus Halfdan Siiger). Copenhagen 28.7.1911 — Copenhagen 15.12.1999. Danish Ethnologist, Scholar of Religion and Tibetan. ...

  • SILBURN, Lilian

    SILBURN, Lilian. Le Vésinet 19.2.1908 — Le Vésinet 19.3.1993. Mademoiselle. French Indologist. Born of English parents living in France, studied philosophy, ...

  • SILVERSTONE, Marilyn

    SILVERSTONE, Marilyn (Bhikshuni Ngawang Chödrön). London 9.3.1929 — near Kathmandu 28.9.1999. U.S. Photojournalist and Buddhist Nun. Daughter of Murray Silverstone, a film director ...

  • SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine Isaac

    SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine Isaac (baron 1814). Paris 21.9.1758 — Paris 21.2.1838. French Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son ofAbraham ...

  • SIMENSCHY, Theofil

    SIMENSCHY, Theofil. Iaşi 27.1.1892 — Iaşi 15.12.1968. Romanian Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Iaşi (Jassy). After lyceum in Iaşi studied classical ...

  • SIMON, Ernst Julius Walter

    SIMON, Ernst Julius Walter (Ximen Xuade). Berlin 10.6.1893 — London 22.2.1981. German Sinologist ...

  • SIMON, Richard

    SIMON, Richard. Hamburg 10.9.1865 — Berlin 14. or 17.8.1934. German Indologist. Born in a family of Jewish origin, educated in Hamburg. ...

  • SIMONSSON, Nils

    SIMONSSON, Nils. Offerdal, Jämtland 12.11.1920 — Uppsala 22.5.1994. Swedish Indologist. Professor in Oslo and Uppsala. Son of a farmer, Simon S., ...

  • SIMPSON, William

    SIMPSON, William. Glasgow 28.10.1823 — London 17.8.1899. British (Scottish) Artist. Of modest origin, became famous as newspaper illustrator. He ...

  • SINCLAIR, William Frederick

    SINCLAIR, William Frederick. 1849? — 15.5.1900, when 51. British Civil Servant in India. Son of William S., D.L. Joined I.C.S. in 1866, arrived at Bombay 1868. Served in various administrative in ...

  • SINGER, Milton Borah

    SINGER, Milton Borah. Poland 15.7.1912 — New York 5.12.1994, when 82. U.S. Anthropologist of India. Born in a Jewish family in ...

  • ŠIRJAEV, M. A.

    ŠIRJAEV, Mihail Alekseevič. 1887 — 1952. Russian Indologist. Student of Ščerbackoj and Barannikov, specialised first in Hindustani, then also in Sanskrit. In the ...

  • SIRR, Henry Charles

    SIRR, Henry Charles. 1807 — London 23.11.1872. British (Irish) Lawyer and Diplomat. Son of Henry Charles Sirr, Town Major of Dublin, and Eliza D’Arcy. Graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. Called to bar at ...

  • SITTIG, Ernst

    SITTIG, Ernst. Berlin 1.2.1887 — Tübingen 25.12.1955. German Linguist and Classical Scholar. Professor in Tübingen. Educated in Berlin, studies at Jena, Berlin and Halle. Ph.D. 1911 Halle. In WW ...

  • SKEEN, William

    SKEEN, William. London 1822 — Sri Lanka 1872. British Printer in Sri Lanka, the first officially appointed Government Printer ...

  • SKEMP, Frank Whittingham

    SKEMP, Frank Whittingham. Eccles, Lancashire 13.12.1880 — 1971. British Civil Servant in India. Studies at Manchester (M.A. 1904) and in preparation for I.C.S. at Cambridge 1903-04. Served in the Punjab. Married ...

  • SKÖLD, Hannes

    SKÖLD, Hannes (Johannes Evelinus). Västerlövsta, Västmanland 20.9.1886 — Höör 14.9.1930. Swedish Indologist and ...

  • SKREFSRUD, Lars (Laurentius Olsen)

    SKREFSRUD, Lars (Laurentius Olsen). Fåberg in Oppland 4.2.1840 — Benagaria (now in Jharkand) 11.12.1910. Norwegian Missionary in India. Born in modest family, son of Ole ...

  • SKRINE, Clarmont Percival

    SKRINE, Clarmont Percival. London 28.2.1888 — 1974. British Civil Servant and Diplomat in India. Sir. Son of —> F. H. B. Skrine and Helen Lucy Stewart. Studies at Oxford. Joined I.C.S. ...

  • SKRINE, Francis Henry

    SKRINE, Francis Henry Bennett. 1847 — 1933. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Clarmont Skrine, a retired officer in Wimbledon, and ...

  • SKURZAK, Ludwik

    SKURZAK, Ludwik. Cieszanowo near Rzeszow 18.11.1900 — Wrocław 26.2.1979. Polish Indologist. Born in a farmer family. Studied at the Jan Kazimir ...

  • SLÁDEČEK, Bohumil

    SLÁDEČEK, Bohumil. Dobrovice, Central Bohemia 29.11.1883 — Prague 30.12.1965. Czech Student of IE Linguistics. Studied at Charles University in Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. ...

  • SLATER, Robert Henry Lawson

    SLATER, Robert Henry Lawson. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 8.2.1896 — 24.12.1984. Rev. British Buddhist Scholar in North America. Son of Harold Slater and Jane Lawson. Grew up in Yorkshire. Lost early his parents and worked as reporter in ...

  • SLATER, Samuel

    SLATER, Samuel. 18?? — after 1896, before 1912. Rev. British Missionary and Educator in India. Graduated from King’s College, London. In 1847 arrived at Calcutta, ordained priest there. From 1850 Rector of St. ...

  • SLEEMAN, William Henry

    SLEEMAN, William Henry. Stratton, Cornwall 18.8.1788 — at sea 10/25.2.1856. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of yeoman Philip Sl. and Mary ...

  • SLIJEPČEVIĆ, Pero

    SLIJEPČEVIĆ, Pero. Samobor near Gacka in Herzegovina 12.6.1888 — Beograd 13.12.1964. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Author and Linguist. Educated in Mostar. ...

  • SLOTTY, Friedrich

    SLOTTY, Friedrich. Brieg (Bez. Breslau, now Brzeg in Poland) 19.10.1881 — Jena 23.12.1963. German (East) IE Scholar. Studies of Classics and Comparative Linguistics ...

  • SŁUSZKIEWICZ, Eugeniusz

    SŁUSZKIEWICZ, Eugeniusz Leonard. Jarosław 6.11.1901 — Warsaw 28.8.1981. Polish Indologist and Armenologist. Professor in Warsaw. Studied from 1919 at Cracow classical ...

  • SMALL, George

    SMALL, George. 1??? — 1???. Rev. Baptist Missionary in India. M.A. Worked in Calcutta and Benares, retired for health reasons in the early 1860s (another source: 1852). Married 1852 Ann Chadwick (née Lovegrove). ...

  • SMART, Bath C.

    SMART, Bath Charles. 1838 — 1887. British Physician interested in Gipsy Language. M.D. Worked in Manchester.

    Publications: The Dialect of the English Gypsies. 1863, 2nd rev. & enl. ed. with H. T. Crofton. 23+302 p. L. ...

  • SMÉKAL, Odolen

    SMÉKAL, Odolen. Olomouc 18.8.1928 — Prague 17.6.1998 (or 13.6.). Czech Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Son of Václav Martin Smékal and Anežka Smičková. ...

  • ŠMELHAUS, Stanislav

    ŠMELHAUS, Stanislav. Karlín 17.11.1887 — 19??. Czechoslovakian Student of Indology. Studied at Charles University in Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1924/25. Probably he ...

  • SMET, Jean de

    SMET, Jean de. 1862 — 1???. Rev. S.J. Belgian Missionary in India. In Ranchi.

    Publications: Rudiments of a Mundari Grammar. Calcutta 1891.

    Sources: No further details found.

  • SMET, Richard V. de

    SMET, Richard V. de. Montignies-sur-Sambre near Charleroi 16.4.1916 — Brussels 2.3.1997. S.J. Belgian Missionary and Indologist. Came to India in 1946 ...

  • ŚMIESZEK, Anton

    ŚMIESZEK, Anton. 22.5.1881 — 1943. Polish Oriental Scholar. Ph.D. 1905 Cracow. From 1921 Assistant Professor at Poznań, 1922 eo. and 1925 ord. of ...

  • SMIRNOV, Boris Leonidovič

    SMIRNOV, Boris Leonidovič. Kozljaniči, Černigov gub. (now Černigiv, Ukraina) 1891 — Ašhabad 2.5.1967. Russian (Ukrainian?) Physician interested in Indology. Professor of ...

  • SMIRNOV, Jurij Andreevič

    SMIRNOV, Jurij Andreevič. Vladikavkaz 12.3.1923 — 17.2.1984. Russian Indologist, specialist of Pañjabi. Son of a worker. In 1941-58 served in army (in 1941-45 ...

  • SMIRNOV, Vasilij Ivanovič

    SMIRNOV, Vasilij Ivanovič. Tver gub. 1898 — 19??. Russian Indologist, specialist of Bengali. Son of a farmer. Graduated from ...

  • SMIRNOVA, Ol’ga Ivanovna

    SMIRNOVA, Ol’ga Ivanovna. Petergof (Petrodvorec) 14.(27.)6.1910 — 13.1. 1982. Russian Central Asian (Sogdian) Scholar and Historian. Daughter of an officer. Graduated ...

  • SMITH, Edmund William

    SMITH, Edmund William. 25.3.1858 — 21.11.1901. British Archaelogical Photographer in India. In 1886 joined A.S.I. as Assistant Archaeological Surveyor for North-West Provinces and ...

  • SMITH, Emil

    SMITH, Emil. Kristiania 7.5.1887 — Oslo 16.5.1957. Norwegian Philologist and Linguist. Son of judge Hjalmar Smith and Ovidia Ellefsen. Grew up in Kristiansund and Kristiania. From 1905 studies, mainly of Greek, in ...

  • SMITH, George

    SMITH, George. Leith 28.4.1833 — Edinburgh 24.12.1919. British (Scottish) Teacher in India. Son of Adam Smith and Isabella Anderson. ...

  • SMITH, Helmer

    SMITH, Helmer. Boo, Stockholms län 26.4.1882 — 9.1.1956. Swedish Indologist. Professor in ...

  • SMITH, Lewis Ferdinand

    SMITH, Lewis Ferdinand. 17?? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Lewis Lucius Smith. Major in Scindia’s service. Secretary to Sir Harford Jones, Ambassador to Persia. Married with ...

  • SMITH, Maria Wilkins

    SMITH, Maria Wilkins. 21.6.1884 — 29.12.1973. U.S. Linguist. Daughter of William Horner Smith (d. 1889) and Henrietta Constantia Wilkins. Apparently the same MWS who studied at Bryn Mawr (1906) and passed Ph.D. ...

  • SMITH, May

    SMITH, May. 18?? — 19??. Britishwoman interested in Pāli. With meagre data ...

  • SMITH, Ray Caldwell

    SMITH, Ray Caldwell. 20.7.1872 ...

  • SMITH, Robert Percy

    SMITH, Robert Percy. 18?? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain of Royal Artillery, signed his Preface in Bareilly (1890). There was an elder RPS, called “Bobus Smith” (1770–1845), the Judge Advocate ...

  • SMITH, Ronald Morton

    SMITH, Ronald Morton.

  • SMITH, Vincent Arthur

    SMITH, Vincent Arthur. Dublin 3.6.1848 — Oxford 6.2.1920. British (Irish) Indologist, Historian ...

  • SMITHER, James George

    SMITHER, James George. 1833 — 1910. British (Irish) Architect in Sri Lanka. Worked as architect in London, then first Government Architect of Ceylon 1865-83, then retired. As architect his work included ...

  • SMYTH, George Monro Carmichael (Carmichael-Smyth)

    SMYTH, George Monro Carmichael (Carmichael-Smyth). 18.9.1803 — 29.4.1890. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of James Carmichael Smyth (1742-1821) and Mary Holyland (d. 1806). Arrived at India 1819/20. Rised to Major of ...

  • SMYTH, Herbert Weir

    SMYTH, Herbert Weir. Wilmington, DE 8.8.1857 — Bar Harbor, ME 16.7.1937. U.S. Classical (Greek) ...

  • SMYTH, William Henry Carmichael

    SMYTH, William Henry Carmichael. England 30.7.1780 — Alloway, Ayrshire 9.9.1861. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of James Carmichael Smyth, a Scottish physician, educated at Charterhouse School. In 1797 joined Bengal Artillery, ...

  • ŠNEJDER —> SCHNEIDER
    ŠNEJDER —> SCHNEIDER
  • SNELLING, John

    SNELLING, John. 1943 — London 28.2.1992. British Bauddha. In the 1980s General Secretary of ...

  • SNESAREV, Andrej Evgen’evič

    SNESAREV, Andrej Evgen’evič. Staraja Kalitva, Ostrogožskij uezd (now Rossoš), gub. Voronež 1.(13.)12.1865 — Moscow ...

  • SNYDER, Edmund Nathaniel

    SNYDER, Edmund Nathaniel. St.Louis MO 25.3.1863 — Denver 1.10.1896. U.S. Student of Indology. Son of Joseph Sn. and Christine Chiron, educated in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1882 studied classics at Harvard (A.B. 1886). From 1888 studied ...

  • SÖDERBLOM, Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan)

    SÖDERBLOM, Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan).ŠOHAJ, František

    ŠOHAJ, František (Franz Schohai). Pacov 25.11.1816 — Prague 31.5.1871. Czech Author and Philologian. Educated in Prague, studied philosophy at Prague. Worked as tutor, from 1848 Professor of Philosophy at Prague, taugh also philology and ...

  • SOKOLOV, Sergej Nikolaevič

    SOKOLOV, Sergej Nikolaevič. Ozerovo village, uezd Tihvin, Čerepoveckoj gub. 8.6.1923 — 14.6.1985. Russian Iranian ...

  • SOLF, Wilhelm Heinrich

    SOLF, Wilhelm Heinrich. Berlin 5.10.1862 — Berlin 6.2.1936. German Indologist and Diplomat. ...

  • SOLMSEN, Felix

    SOLMSEN, Felix. Schneidemühl 11.7.1865 — Mehlem 13.6.1911. German Classical ...

  • SOLVYNS, François Balthazar

    SOLVYNS, François Balthazar (Frans Balthazar Solvijns). Antwerpen 1760 — ...

  • SOMMER, Johann Ferdinand

    SOMMER, Johann Ferdinand. Trier ...

  • SOMS (Y) CASTELÍN, Enrique

    SOMS (Y) CASTELÍN, Enrique. 1860 — 1913. Spanish Linguist. Professor of Greek at Salamanca, from 1891 at Madrid. After Gelabert y Gordiola’s

  • SONNE, Wilhelm Günther Heinrich

    SONNE, Wilhelm Günther Heinrich. Ilfeld/Harz 22.2.1820 — Wismar 3.5.1873. German IE Scholar. Schoolteacher in ...

  • SONNERAT, Pierre

    SONNERAT, Pierre. Lyon 18.8.1748 — Paris 31.3.1814. ...

  • SONTHEIMER, Günther-Dietz

    SONTHEIMER, Günther-Dietz. Ulm 21.4.1934 — Dossenheim bei Heidelberg 2.6.1992. German Indologist, Specialist ...

  • SOOTHILL, William Edward

    SOOTHILL, William Edward. Halifax, Yorkshire 23.1.1861 — Oxford 13.5.1935. Rev. British Missionary in China, then ...

  • SOPER, Alexander Coburn, III.

    SOPER, Alexander Coburn, III. Chicago 18.2.ŠOR, Rozalija Osipovna

    ŠOR, Rozalija Osipovna (Josifovna). Kovno (Kaunas) 12.(24.)6.SØRENSEN, Søren

    SØRENSEN, Søren. Danstrup near Randers 23.11.1848 — Copenhagen 8.12.1902. Danish Indologist. Professor ...

  • SØRENSEN, Theo (Theodor August Christian

    SØRENSEN, Theodor August Christian. Kristiansand 24.5.1873 — Kristiansand 2.9.1959. ...

  • SORLEY, Herbert Tower

    SORLEY, Herbert Tower. 12.4.1892 — 7.8.1968. British Civil Servant in India, Sindhi Scholar. Son ...

  • SOROKIN, Sergej Sergeevič

    SOROKIN, Sergej Sergeevič. Orël 10.(23.)6.1913 — 20.7.1984. Russian Central Asian Scholar (History and Archaeology). ...

  • SOTNIKOV, Mihail Nikolaevič

    SOTNIKOV, Mihail Nikolaevič. 1??? — 19??. Russian Indologist, Specialist of Hindi Grammar. In the ...

  • SOWA, Rudolf von

    SOWA, Rudolf von. Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraina) 30.1.1853 — Brünn (Brno) 29.9.1900. Austrian (of ...

  • SPEAR, Percival

    SPEAR, Thomas George Percival. Bath, Somerset 2.11.1901 — Cambridge 16.12.1982. British Historian of India. Educated at ...

  • SPECHT, Edouard

    SPECHT, Edouard Prosper Emmanuel. Paris 26.2.1843 — Paris 2.3.1906. ...

  • SPECHT, Franz

    SPECHT, Franz. Rosslau/Anhalt 1.11.1888 ...

  • SPENCER, Arthur Marshman

    SPENCER, Arthur Marshman. 1886 — 1943. British? Perhaps a missionary in Bengal?

  • SPENCER, Harold

    SPENCER, Harold. 18?? — 19??. Rev. Wesleyan Missionary in India. B.A. In 1909 and ...

  • SPENEDER, Leopold

    SPENEDER, Leopold. 18?? — 19??. Austrian Art Historian. Ph.D. 1927 Vienna (under Strzygowski). Still active as art historian in 1946.

    Publications: Diss. Vorderindische Sakralbautypen. Manuscript 1927.

    – “Gopuram und Westturm”, Fs. J. Stryzogowski 1932, 152-155.
  • SPEYER, Jacob Samuel

    SPEYER, Jacob Samuel (Speijer). Amsterdam 20.12.1849 — Leiden 1.11.1913. Dutch Indologist. Professor in ...

  • SPIEGEL, Friedrich (von)

    SPIEGEL, Ludwig Friedrich ...

  • SPIEKER, Edward Henry

    SPIEKER, Edward Henry. Baltimore 18.4.1859 — 2.2.1918. U.S. Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Baltimore. Educated at Baltimore ...

  • SPIES, Otto

    SPIES, Otto. Bad Kreuznach 5.4.1901 — Bonn ...

  • SPITTEL, Richard L.

    SPITTEL, Richard Lionel. Tangalle 9.12.1881 — Colombo 3.9.1969. British Physician, Anthropologist and Author in Sri Lanka, a Pioneer of Vedda Research. Son of Dr. Frederick George Sp., of Ceylon Health Service, ...

  • SPITZER, Moritz

    SPITZER, Moritz (Moshe Shpitzer). Boskowitz, Moravia (then Austria, now ...

  • SPOONER, David Brainerd

    SPOONER, David Brainerd. Vermon, Vermont 7.2.1879 — Agra 30.1.1925. U.S. Indologist and ...

  • SPOONER, Elizabeth Colton

    SPOONER, Elizabeth Colton (née Elizabeth Swester Colton). 1851? — ...

  • SPOTTISWOODE, William

    SPOTTISWOODE, William. London 11.2.1825 — London 27.6.1883. ...

  • SPRATT, Philip

    SPRATT, Philip. Camberwell 26.9.1902 — Madras 8.3.1971. British Journalist and Politician in India. Son ...

  • SPRENGEL, Mattias Christian

    SPRENGEL, Matthias Christian. Rostock 24.8.1746 — Halle 7.1.1803. German Historian and Geographer. Professor at ...

  • SPRENGER, Aloys

    SPRENGER, Aloys. Nassereith, Tyrol 3.9.1813 — Heidelberg ...

  • SPRING, Francis

    SPRING, Francis. 17?? — 18??. Rev. Missionary of Church Missionary Society in India. Chaplain in Tellicherry from before 1817, when he founded a school there. Returned in 1824.

    Publications: Outlines of ...

  • SPRUNG, Mervyn

    SPRUNG,  George Mervyn Carter. Winnipeg 1913 — Peterborough 5.1.2000. Canadian Buddhist Scholar. Son of Benjamin Franklin Sprung. Studies at Manitoba (B.A.), Toronto (M.A.) and Berlin (Ph.D. 1939). Back in Canada volunteered in army ...

  • ST. ANDREW ST. JOHN, Richard Fleming
    ST. ANDREW ST. JOHN, Richard Fleming.ST. BARBE, Henry Lewis

    ST. BARBE, Henry Lewis (Louis, born as H. L. St.B. Brown). ...

  • ST.QUENTIN, René de

    ST.QUENTIN, René de. 18?? — 19??. Frenchman, had spent 15 years in India (before 1889).  His preface is signed in Petit-Quevilly in Normandy.

    Publications: Abrégé de Grammaire hindoustanie, essai d’étude phonétique ...

  • STACHE-ROSEN, Valentina

    STACHE-ROSEN, Valentina (née Rosen)STACK, George A.

    STACK, George A. 18?? — ?.12.1853. British Officer in India, Pioneer of Sindhi Studies. ...

  • STACKELBERG, Reinhold Otto Georg, Baron von

    STACKELBERG, Reinhold Otto Georg, Baron von. STACY, Lewis Robert

    STACY, Lewis Robert. Oxford 11.12.1787 — Neemuch, M.Pr. 18.7.1848. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Rev. Henry Peter Stacy and Ann Keele. Lieutenant-Colonel of Bengal Native Infantry. Married, three daughters.

    Publications: “Note on the ...

  • STAËL-HOLSTEIN, Alexander Wilhelm, Baron von

    STAËL-HOLSTEIN, Alexander Wilhelm, Baron von

  • STAMM, Friedrich

    STAMM, Friedrich. 18?? — 19??. German Student of IE Linguistics. From Schwarzenraben. Ph.D. 1919 Münster.

    Publications: Diss. Die denominativen Verben primären Charakters in den indogermanischen Sprachen. 3+80 p. Münster 1919.

    Sources: Nothing ...

  • STAPLETON, Henry Ernest

    STAPLETON, Henry Ernest. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire (?) 3.5.1878 ...

  • STARK(E), John/James (?)

    STARK(E), John/James (?). Kirkcudbright 5.5.1798 — 1859. Hon. British (Scottish) Lawyer in Sri Lanka. From 1824 lawyer in Edinburgh. Queen’s Advocate in Ceylon 1838-40, then Puisne Justice of Supreme Court in Colombo (still ...

  • STARKEY, Samuel Cross

    STARKEY, Samuel Cross. 3.3.1807 — 28.3.1888. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John Cross Starkey. Captain, then Major. At his father’s death in 1855 inherited the property in Cheshire and returned to ...

  • STASIAK, Stefan

    STASIAK, Stefan. Warsaw 22.2.1884 — London 9.2.1962. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lwów ...

  • STAUDE, Wilhelm

    STAUDE, Wilhelm. Vienna 1904 — ?.3.1977. Austrian Art Historian and Anthropologist in France. Son of a merchant, lost early his father. Studies of Oriental Art History at Vienna, Leipzig and Munich. ...

  • STCHOUKINE, Ivan

    STCHOUKINE, Ivan (Ivan Vasil’evič Ščukin). 1886 — Beirut ?.10.1975. ...

  • STCHOUPAK, Nadine

    STCHOUPAK, Nadine (née Nadežda Oseevna Steinberg). Vilna (now Vilnius in Lithuania) 10.2.1886 ...

  • STEDE, William Friedrich

    STEDE, William F. (Wilhelm Friedrich Stede). 9.6.1882 — 5.7.1958. German Indologist in ...

  • STEEL, Flora Annie

    STEEL, Flora Annie (née Fl. A. Webster). Sudbury, Middlesex 2.4.1847 — Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 12.4.1929. Mrs. British Author, spent 22 years in India. Daughter of George Webster and Isabella MacCallum. In 1867 married ...

  • STEELE, Thomas

    STEELE, Thomas. Walton near Brampton, Cumberland 27.5.1834 ...

  • STEGMANN VON PRITZWALD, Kurt

    STEGMANN VON PRITZWALD, Kurt Friedrich Woldemar. Wenden/Livland (now Cēsis in Latvia) 12.6.1901 — Rottenburg/Neckar 21.12.1962. ...

  • STEIN, Burton

    STEIN, Burton. Chicago 1926 — 26.4.1996. U.S. ...

  • STEIN, Mark Aurel

    STEIN, Mark Aurel.

  • STEIN, Otto

    STEIN, Otto. Saaz/Bohemia (now Žatec in Czech) 21.10.1893 — Łódz Ghetto ?.4.1942. ...

  • STEIN, Rolf Alfred

    STEIN, Rolf Alfred. Schwetz (now Świecie, Poland) 13.6.1911 — Paris 9.10.1999. French ...

  • STEINER, Margarethe

    STEINER, Margaret(he). 1??? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1926 Tübingen under Garbe. ...

  • STEINGASS, Franz Joseph (Francis Joseph)

    STEINGASS, Franz Joseph (Francis Joseph). Frankfurt/Main 16.3.1825 — ?.1.1903. German Oriental (Arabic, Persian and ...

  • STEINKE, Martin (Tao Chuen)

    STEINKE, Martin (Tao Chuen / Tao Chün / Dao Jun Zhi Ming). Potsdam 23.1.

  • STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz

    STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz. Prossnitz, Moravia (now Prostějov in Czech) 30.3.1816 — Berlin 24.1.1907. Moravian Jewish Rabbi and Semitic Scholar. Son of ...

  • STEINTHAL, Paul

    STEINTHAL, Paul. 18?? — 19??. German Indologist. Ph.D in 1881 Leipzig. One ...

  • STEMPEL, Guido Herman

    STEMPEL, Guido Hermann. Ft.Madison, Iowa ?.5.1868 — ...

  • STENZLER, Adolf Friedrich

    STENZLER, Adolf Friedrich. Wolgast/Pommern 9.7.1807 — Breslau 27.2.1887. German Indologist. Professor in ...

  • STEPANOV, Gurij (Aleksej Ivanovič St.)

    STEPANOV, Gurij (Aleksej Ivanovič St.). Čeboksary 3.10.1880 — Gorkij 1.11.1937. Russian Ecclesiastic, Mongolian and Tibetan Scholar. Archimandrit, then Archbishop of Russian Orthodox Church. After Kazan Seminary studied 1902-06 at ...

  • STEPHANUS A SANCTO PETRO ET PAULO (Antonio Buffi)

    STEPHANUS A SANCTO PETRO ET PAULO (lay Antonio Buffi)STEPHEN, James Grant

    STEPHEN, James Grant. Calcutta 28.7.1819 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 22.2.1897. British Colonial Officer. Major. Son of William George St. of Bengal Engineers and Esther Thomason. Served in Bengal Army, retired 1856. Now ...

  • STEPHENS (Stevens), Thomas (Thomaz/Tomás Estevão)

    STEPHENS (Stevens), Thomas (Thomaz/Tomás Estevão/Estevam/Esteves, also known as Padre Busten/Buston)STEPHENS, Celeus Leon

    STEPHENS, Celeus Leon. Westminster 11.1.1847 — Bogn, Bengal 21.12.1919. Rev. British Calvinist Missionary in India. Son of George St. and Mary Franklin Arnold, grew up in Crmarthen. Ordained priest 1870. Member ...

  • STEPHENS, Henry Morse

    STEPHENS, Henry Morse. Edinburgh 3.10.1857 — Berkeley 16.4.1919. British Historian in the U.S.A. Professor in Berkeley. Educated at Haileybury College, studies at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1880, M.A. 1892). Lecturer in Indian ...

  • STEPHENSON, John (elder)

    STEPHENSON, John. 1??? — 1???. British (?) Civilian (“Mr.”) in India. Possibly he was that J.St. of Tyneside who went to India in 1829 with his wife Elizabeth Brummell and remained 12 years ...

  • STEPHENSON, John (younger)

    STEPHENSON, John. Padiham, Lancashire 6.2.1871 — London ...

  • STERN, Philippe

    STERN, Philippe Gérard Isaïe Simon. Paris 11.4.1895 — Paris 4.4.1979. French Art Historian specialized ...

  • STERNBACH, Ludwik

    STERNBACH, Ludwik. Cracow 12.12.1910 — Paris 25.3.1981. Polish Indologist. Son of Edward ...

  • STEVENSON, John

    STEVENSON, John. Alton Campsie, Stirlingshire 3.11.1798 — Ladykirk11.8.1858. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary ...

  • STEVENSON, John Sinclair.

    STEVENSON, John Sinclair. 4.2.1868 — 8.5.1930. Irish Missionary in India, husband of —> Margaret St. ...

  • STEVENSON, Margaret

    STEVENSON, Alice Margaret ...

  • STEWART, Caroline Taylor

    STEWART, Caroline Taylor. Miss. Memphis Tenn. 18?? — 19??. U.S. Linguist. Studies at Kansas ...

  • STEWART, Charles

    STEWART, Charles. Lisburn, Antrim 1764 — Bath 19.4.1837. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Son of Captain Poyntz St., in 1781 joined E.I.C.’s army as cadet. From 1800-06 taught ...

  • STEWART, Robert

    STEWART, Robert. Ardvorlich, Perthshire 15.9.1829 — 6.6.1882. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Colonel. Son of Major William Murray St. and Charlotte Debnam. Lieutenant, then Captain of Bengal Army. From 1856 Assistant Superintendent, ...

  • STILL, John

    STILL, John. Lambeth 1880 — Port Arthur, ...

  • STIRLING, Andrew

    STIRLING, Andrew. 1793? — Calcutta 23.5.1830. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Admiral ...

  • STOCKS, C. de Beauvoir

    STOCKS, Cheridah de Beauvoir (née Cheridah Annie Ernst). Mrs.STOHR, Paolo

    STOHR, Paolo. 1907? — 1940? (when 33). Italian Indologist (Sanskrit Scholar).

  • STOKES, Hudleston

    STOKES, Hudleston (Huddleston). Doveridge, Derbyshire 1807 — 1888?. British Civil Servant in South India. Son of Vicar Henry St. of Doveridge. Joined E.I.C.’s service 1826, worked mainly in Kurnool. From 1842 Assistant, then ...

  • STOKES, Whitley

    STOKES, Whitley. Dublin 28.2.1830 — London 13.4.1909. ...

  • STONEHOUSE, John

    STONEHOUSE, John. 17?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. In 1780 Assistant to Collector in Shawabad, in 1795 Collector ...

  • STÖNNER, Heinrich

    STÖNNER, Albert Heinrich.

  • STORCK, Friedrich Wilhelm Paul

    STORCK, Friedrich Wilhelm ...

  • STOROST, Wilhelmas (Vilius Storasta; pseudonym Vydünas, Vîdûnas)

    STOROST, Wilhelmas (Vilius Storostas; pseudonym Vydünas, Vîdûnas).STOTHERT, Richard

    STOTHERT, Richard. 10.12.1833 — 11.10.1898. Rev. British Missionary in India. Studies at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities (M.A.). After brief service as chaplain in Bermuda ordained priest in 1860 and left ...

  • STRACHAN, John

    STRACHAN, John. Brae near Keith, Banffshire 31.1.1862 ...

  • STRACHEY, Edward

    STRACHEY, Edward. Somerset 18.12.1774 — London 3.1.1832. British Civil Servant in India. Second son of Sir Henry Strachey, Bart. (1736–1810), and Jane Kelsall. The father had been Clive’s secretary in India. ...

  • STRANGE, Thomas Andrew Lumsden

    STRANGE, Thomas Andrew Lumsden. London (?) 30.11.1756 — London 16.7.1841. Sir. British Civil Servant ...

  • STRANGE, Thomas William Lumsden

    STRANGE, Thomas William Lumsden. Madras 4.1.1808 — Norwood 4.9.1884. British Civil Servant and Lawyer in ...

  • STRANGWAYS, Arthur Henry Fox —> FOX STRANGWAYS, Arthur Henry
    STRANGWAYS, Arthur Henry Fox —> FOX STRANGWAYS, Arthur Henry
  • STRATTON, Alfred William

    STRATTON, Alfred William. Toronto 1866 — Gulmarg, Kashmir 23.8.1902 (when 38). Canadian ...

  • STRAUSS, Otto

    STRAUSS, Otto. Berlin 18.10.1881 — Bloemendaal, Netherlands 20.10.1940. German Indologist. Professor in ...

  • STREHLY, Georges

    STREHLY, Georges. Alkirch, Alsace 1851 — 1906. French Indologist, Translator of Sanskrit ...

  • STREITBERG, Wilhelm

    STREITBERG, Wilhelm. Rüdesheim 23.2.1864 — Leipzig 19.8.1925. German IE Scholar. Professor in Munich and ...

  • STREITER, Friedrich

    STREITER, Friedrich. Bozen (Bolzano) 2.11.1833 — Bozen ...

  • STRENG, Frederick John

    STRENG, Frederick John. Seguin, Texas 1933 — Dallas 21.6.1993 (when 59). U.S. ...

  • STROHAL, Emil Ernst

    STROHAL, Emil Ernst. Klagenfurt 29.7.1874 — Leipzig 7.3.1902. Austrian Student of Indology. The eldest ...

  • STRONG, Dawsonne M.

    STRONG, Dawsonne Melanchthon. 1841 — 1903. British Colonial Officer interested in Buddhism. Son of ...

  • STRONG, Sandford Arthur

    STRONG, Sandford Arthur.

  • STRUTT, Charles Henry

    STRUTT, Charles Henry. 8.9.1833 — 19??. British Colonial Officer in India. Joined Bombay artillery 1853 and served in 1857 insurrection. Major 1864. He achieved a considerable collection of Indo-Greek and Indian ...

  • STRUTT, Edward

    STRUTT, Edward. Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire 1853 — St.Columb, Newquay, Cornwall 1911. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of master bootmaker G. Strutt and Elizabeth Housley, a pious Wesleyan family. ...

  • STRZYGOWSKI, Josef

    STRZYGOWSKI, Josef. Biala, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 7.3.1862 — Vienna 2.1.1941. Austrian ...

  • STUBBS, Francis William

    STUBBS, Francis William. Dundalk, Ireland 1828 — Cork 2.8.1911. British (Irish?) Colonial Officer in India. After Addiscombe joined E.I.C.’s army in 1847, served in Bengal Horse Artillery. Major, 1859 in Attock, ...

  • STÜBE, Rudolf Heinrich Karl

    STÜBE, Rudolf Heinrich Karl. Behren-Lübchin/Mecklenburg-Schwerin 27.7.STUMPF, Peter

    STUMPF, Peter. 26.1.1940 — 26.5.1977. German Tocharian ...

  • STURSBERG, Otto

    STURSBERG, Otto. 1871 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1907 Berlin. Probably a priest and missionary in Berhampore, India, in 1896-1938. Mentioned as living in 1943.

    Publications: Diss. Das Caitanyacaritāmṛta des ...

  • STURTEVANT, Edgar Howard

    STURTEVANT, Edgar Howard. Jacksonville, Ill. 7.3.1875 — Branford CT 1.7.1952. U.S. IE and Hittite ...

  • STUTTERHEIM, Willem Frederik

    STUTTERHEIM, Willem Frederik. Rotterdam 27.9.1892 — Japanese camp in Indonesia 10.9.1942. Dutch Scholar of Indonesian Philology and Archaeology. Son of Christiaan Lodewijk Willem St. and Jacoba Sack. After school in Rotterdam ...

  • SUALI, Luigi

    SUALI, Luigi. Bologna 29.9.1881 — Pavia 9.3.1957. Italian Indologist. Professor in Pavia. ...

  • SULEJKIN, Dmitrij Aleksandrovič

    SULEJKIN, Dmitrij Aleksandrovič. 1900 — 1948. Russian Indologist. Studies at Leningrad (under ...

  • SULPIZI, Giuseppe

    SULPIZI, Giuseppe. Città della Pieve, Perugia 17.10.1875 — 19??. Italian Scholar. Professor at Florence ...

  • SUMMER, Mary

    SUMMER, Mary (nom-de-plume, really Marie Foucaux, née Filon). 1842 — 1902. French ...

  • SUMMERS, Gertrude M.

    SUMMERS, Gertrude M., Miss. 1??? — 19??. Miss. British. ...

  • SUNESON, Carl

    SUNESON, Carl. Stockholm 18.10.1941 — Stockholm 2.1.1995. Swedish Indologist. Grew up in ...

  • SUTHERLAND, James Charles Colebrooke

    SUTHERLAND, James Charles Colebrooke. Walcot, Somerset 6.11.1792 — Calcutta 1.2.1844. British Lawyer in India. Son of Andrew Sutherland (d. 1795), an officer, and Louisa Colebrooke, sister of ...

  • SÜTTERLIN, Ludwig

    SÜTTERLIN, Ludwig. Heidelberg 16.11.1863 — Freiburg i. Br. 3.4.1934. German Linguist. Studies at Heidelberg (Osthoff) and Leipzig. PD 1890 Heidelberg, from 1896 ...

  • SUTTON, Amos

    SUTTON, Amos. Sevenoaks, Kent 1802 — Cuttack 17.8.1854. British Baptist Missionary in India. Arrived at Cuttack with his wife in 1825. The wife died very soon and he married later the widow of ...

  • SVETOVIDOVA, Irina Anatol’evna

    SVETOVIDOVA, Irina Anatol’evna. Leningrad 3.8.1930 — 6.5.1968. Russian Indologist (Bengali scholar). Daughter of an ...

  • SWANSON, Donald C.

    SWANSON, Donald Carl Eugene. St.Paul, Minnesota 18.11.1914 — 12.4.1976. U.S. Linguist. Studies at University of Minnesota (B.A. 1936, M.A. 1939, in Classics). M.A. and Ph.D. 1941 Princeton University. After one year as Instructor ...

  • SWINEY, John

    SWINEY, John. Edmonton, Middlesex 1783? — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 24.12.1870. British Physician in India. Dr.med. In Indian Medical Service, served over 36 years (until 1838?), and then lived for 33 years more (possibly in New South ...

  • SWINTON, Robert Blair

    SWINTON, Robert Blair. 1829 — 1912. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Colonel William Sw. and Elizabeth Blair. Judge of Madras Civil Service, in 1868 in Bangalore. Retired in 1874 and moved ...

  • SWYNNERTON, Charles

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