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SABBATHIER, Paul. 18?? — 15.5.1909. French Indologist. In Paris. Vedic scholar, a student of Bergaigne. In 1899 living in Chantegrillet (Drôme). ...

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

SAFAREWICZ, Jan. Daugavpils (Latvia) 8.2.1904 — Krakow 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. Kispet (now Budapest XIX) 16.5.1929 — Grenzach 22.7.1993. Hungarian Student of Religion in Austria and Germany. Son of Stefan S., a ...

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

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

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 Jose Luis de Gonzaga. Ucassaim, Bardez, Goa 21.6.1878 — 1975. Portuguese (Goan?) Indologist. Professor in Lisbon. Educated at Lyceum ...

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

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

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

SALVIONI, Carlo. Bellinzona 3.3.1858— Milano 20.10.1920. Swiss Linguist in Italy. Professor in Milano. Educated in Lugano. Studies at Basel, sonn changed medicine into ...

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. ...

SAMPSON, John. Schull, County Cork 1862 — 9.11.1931. British (Irish) Gipsy Scholar. Son of James S., a mining engineer from Cornwall, and Sarah ...

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

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, Paulinus a —> PAULINUS A SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO.

SANDBERG, Graham. Oughtibridge, Yorkshire 9.12.1851 — Bournemouth 2.3.1905. British Priest and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Paul Louis S., a vicar and former (1843-49) ...

SANDERSON, Daniel. 1810 — 1???. Rev. British Missionary in India. Methodist missionary in Mysore State (Bangalore) in 1842-67. Married, children.

SANDFORD, W.

SANGERMANO, Vincentius. Arpino 1758 — Livorno (?) 1819. Father. Italian Barnabite Missionary in Burma, a Scholar of Pāli and Burmese. Sent to Burma ...

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

SANTA RITA E SOUSA, Jose. 1??? — 19??. Apparently an Indian from Konkan, a Catholic Priest. Professor of Konkani at Esc. Superior Colonial ...

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

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

SASSETTI, Filippo

SAUER, Wilhelm. Münster 21.6.1843 — Düsseldorf 4.4. or 9.4.1902, when 58. German Historian. Worked as archivist in Münster, Düsseldorf, Hannover, aurich, Idstein, Wiesbaden ...

SAUNDERS, Arthur Leslie. 7.3.1862 — 31.10.1935. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Indian Religions. Served in I.C.S. in Central Provinces and United ...

SAUNDERS, Kenneth James. Cape Town 10.1.1882 — 1937. British (?) Missionary in India. Studies at Cambridge: B.A. 1905, M.A. 1912. In ...

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

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SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de. Genève 26.9.1857 — Vufflens, Genève 22.2. 1913. Swiss Linguist. Professor in Genève. Son of Henri Louis Frédéric de ...

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

BORSANI SCALABRINO, Giuseppina —> G. SCALABRINO BORSANI

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 ...

ŠČERBATSKOJ, Fëdor Ippolitovič (Theodor Scherbatskoy) Keltse, Poland 19.9.(1.10.)1866 — Borovoe, Kazakhstan 18.3.1942. Russian Indologist, specialist of Buddhism. Name is somewhat problematic, ...

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

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. Brüsewitz near Schwerin 2,8,1815 — Rome 14.4.1894. German Poet and Translator of Oriental Classics. Born in a well ...

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

SCHAFER, R. —> SHAFER, Robert L.

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 ...

SCHARPÉ, Adriaan Alberik Maria. Leuven 29.10.1913 — 1986. Belgian Indologist. Studies at Utrecht, ...

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

SCHAYER, Stanisław. Sędziszów 8.5.1899 — Otwock 1.12.1941. Polish Indologist. Professor in Warsaw. From 1916 studies at Warsaw, then soon philosophy and ...

SCHEFTELOWITZ, Isidor Isaac. Sandersleben/Anhalt 1.5.1875 — Oxford 17.12. 1934. German (Jewish) Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor and Rabbi in Cologne. Ph.D. 1901 Königsberg. ...

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. Brno 11.12.1826 — Graz 20.9.1900. Austrian Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Son of a schoolteacher and classical philologist. Studies in 1845-49 ...

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 (née Reindl) 2.12.1865 — Hanson Mass. 17.3.1940. German Anthropologist, specialist of Burma. Wife of —> L. S., often participated in his work, ...

SCHERMAN, Lucian. Posen 10.10.1864 — Hanson, Mass. 29.5.1946. German Indologist and Anthropologist. Professor in Munich. Husband of —> Chr. S. Son of ...

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

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

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

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

SCHILLING VON CANSTADT, Paul Ludwig, Freiherr (Pavel Lvovič Šilling fon Kanštadt, Baron). Reval 5.(16.)4.1786 — St.Petersburg 25.7.(6.8.)1837. Russian (German ...

SCHINDLER, Jochem. Amstetten 8.11.1944 — Prague 24.12.1994. Austrian IE Linguist. Ph.D. 1972. In 1972-74 Assistant at Vienna. In 1974-76 Assistant Professor, 1976-78 Associate ...

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

SCHLAGINTWEIT-SAKÜNLÜSKI, Hermann von. Munich 13.5.1826 — Munich 19.1. 1882. German Traveller in India and Central Asia. Brother of —> Adolf, Emil and Robert S. Studied ...

SCHLAGINTWEIT, Adolf. Munich 9.1.1829 — Kashgar 27.8.1857. German Traveller in India and Central Asia. Brother of —> Emil, Hermann and Robert S. Studied ...

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

SCHLAGINTWEIT, Robert von. Munich 27.10.1833 — Giessen 6.6.1885. German Traveller in India and Central Asia. Brother of —> Adolf, Emil and Hermann S. Studied science. ...

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, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (von). Hannover 10.3.1772 — Dresden 12.1. 1829. German Literate ...

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

SCHMIDT, Erich Friedrich. Baden-Baden 13.9.1897 — Santa Barbara CAL 3.10.1964. German Archaeologist in the U.S.A. Lost early his father, he had military education ...

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. 29.7.1931 — 4.7.1991. German IE Scholar. Professor in Bonn. Ph.D. Professor of IE Linguistics at Bonn (1987).

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

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

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

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

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

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. Studied ...

SCHMÖLDERS, Franz August. Rhede bei Bocholt (Westfalen) 28.11.1809 — Breslau 21.2. 1880. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar interested in Sanskrit. ...

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). Ludwigslust/Mecklemburg 1813 — 8.12.1888. German Indologist, Ethnograph and Linguist in France. Studies of Indology (under Burnouf) and other ...

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

SCHÖHL, Hermann. Rufach/Oberelsass 28.4.1882 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of the director of an agricultural school. After gymnasium in Colmar (Alsace) ...

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

SCHÖNFELD, Karl. Schaffhausen 1878 — Locarno 10.7.19??. Swiss Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1909/10 Zürich. After school and gymnasium in Winterthur studied in 1897-98 ...

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

SCHOR, R. I. —> ŠOR, R. I.

SCHOTERMAN, Jan Anthony. Amersfoort 27.3.1948 — Amersfoort 29.6.1989. Dutch Indologist. Educated in Amersfoort. In 1968-73 studies of Indo-Iranian and Dravidian at ...

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, Wilhelm Christian. Mainz 3.9.1807 — Berlin 21.1.1889. German Fenno-Ugric and Central Asian Scholar, and Sinologist. Son of a merchant. Started as Theologian ...

SCHRADER, Friedrich. Wolmirstedt, Prussia 19.11.1865 — Berlin 28.8.1922. German Oriental Scholar, Art Historian and Journalist. Educated in Magdeburg, studies at Halle (also art ...

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. Weimar 28.3.1855 — Breslau 21.3.1919. German IE Scholar. Professor in Breslau. Son of a civil servant, educated in Weimar, ...

SCHRAM, Robert. 1850 — 1923. Austrian Astronomer and Geodecist. At Vienna University. Dr.

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

SCHRÖDER, Dominik. Eiweiler, Saarland 4.9.1910 — Ibid. 25.12.1974. German Catholic Missionary and Anthropologist in China. Worked in North-West China in 1938-49, mainly among ...

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

SCHRÖTER, Friedrich Christian Gotthelf. 1786 — ?.7.1820. German Missionary in Bengal. Born in Saxony, was educated as a missionary by Johann Jaenicke in ...

SCHRÖTER, Julius Erich. 18?? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1900 Leipzig.

SCHUBERT, Johannes. Annaberg/Sächs. Erzgebirge 7.9.1896 — Leipzig 2.8.1976. German (East) Tibetan and Mongolian Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. Educated in Plauen, participated ...

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

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

SCHULEMANN, Werner. Neisse/Schlesien (now Nysa in Poland) 4.5.1888 — Bonn 20.6.1975. German Pharmacologist interested in Lamaism. Brother of —> Günther S. Studies at Freiburg ...

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, Theodor. 1824 — 1898 (when 74). German Lay Philosopher interested in Buddhism. Ober-presidialrat. In Danish service, after Danish-Prussian war living in Berlin.

SCHULZ, Friedrich Eduard. Darmstadt 12.7.1799 — Kurdistan, near Başkale fall 1829. German Oriental Scholar and Asian traveller. Studies at Giessen and Göttingen. In ...

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 a ...

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

SCHÜTZ, Carl. Bückeburg 14.4.1805 — Bielefeld 14.9.1892. German Indologist. Ph.D. Studied at Berlin under Bopp, then worked as teacher at Gymnasium ...

SCHUYLER, Montgomery. Stamford, Conn. 2.9.1877 — New York 1.11.1955. U.S. Diplomat and Indologist. Son of Montgomery S. (1843–1914), a fanous journalist, ...

SCHWAB, Julius. 17.4.1852 — 19??. German Librarian and Student of Indology. Studies at München under E. Kuhn. Ph.D. 1882 München. From ...

SCHWAB, Raymond. Nancy 23.2.1884 — Paris 2.6.1956. French Author and Historian of Oriental Studies. Son of Alexandre S. and Léontine Lévy. Licence-es-lettres 1906. ...

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 (Benjamin). 19?? — 26.12.1981. U.S. IE Linguist and Anatolian Scholar. A.B. M.A. Ph.D. 193?. In 1956-75 Associate Professor of Classics at ...

SCHWARTZ (Swartz), Christian Friedrich. Sonnenburg/Prussia (now Slońsk in Poland) 22.10.1726 — Tanjore (Tañcāvūr) 13.2.1798. German Missionary in India. Son of Georg S., a ...

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. Schwerin 28.6.1890 — 196?/7?. German Indo-Iranian, Tocharian and IE Scholar. Gymnasium in Schwerin. Ph.D. 1915 Münster (diss. on Germanistics). ...

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

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

SCRIBA, Karl. 18?? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1902 Würzburg (under Jolly).

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SEDDON, Charles Norman. 18.12.1870 — 27.3.1950. British Oriental (Marathi and Persian) Scholar. Educated in Liverpool and in 1889-91 at ...

SEDGWICK, Leonard John. 1883 — 1925. British Civil Servant in India, Interedtes in Botany and Religion. B.A. Cambridge. Worked in Gujarat. ...

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

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

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

SELIGMANN, Brenda Zara (née Salaman). 1883 — 1965. British Anthropologist. Daughter of Myer and Sarah Salaman, studied pre-medical biology at Bedford ...

SELIGMANN, Charles Gabriel. London 24.12.1873 — 19.1.1940. British Anthropologist. Originally a physician, soon ...

SELLE, Götz von. Torgau 28.1.1893 — Göttingen 6.10.1956. German Historian and Iranian scholar. Born as a son of an officer (later colonel). After ...

SEMENCOV, Vsevolod Sergeevič. v sele Rudne-Grabovke Žitomurskoj oblasti 2.7.1941 — 12.1.1986. Russian Indologist. Son of a forest engineer. Studied first music, from 1963 ...

SEMIČOV, Boris Vladimirovič. St.Petersburg 26.10.(8.11.)1900 — 17.2. 1984. Russian Indologist and Tibetan Scholar. Son of an official. Graduated 1929 from Leningrad ...

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. 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 —> SCHERZL, V. I.

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 ...

SEWELL, Robert Beresford Seymour. 4.6.1845 — London 30.12.1925. British Civil Servant, Historian, and Indologist in India. Son of Robert Burleigh S., ...

SHAFER, Robert Lloyd. 1893 — 1969. U.S. Linguist and Sino-Tibetan scholar. At Berkeley. Famous, but rather much criticised for his brave ...

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

SHAKESPEAR, John. Lount, Staunton-Herald, Leicestershire ?.8.1774 — 14.6.1858. British Oriental (Hindi/Urdu, Arabic and Persian) Scholar. Professor in Addiscombe. Son of a ...

SHARPE, Phoebe Elizabeth (née Lavnder). Bangalore 1888 — 1941. Miss. British Authoress interested ...

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

SHEA, David. 1777 — 1836. British (Irish?) Persian Scholar. Professor at Haileybury. Studied Classics at Dublin. Never visited Asia, but learned Arabic and Persian in Malta, then teaching at ...

SHERRING, Matthew Atmore. 26.9.1826 — Benares 10.8.1880. Rev. British Missionary and Ethnologist in India. Educated at Coward ...

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 (1798 first baron Teignmouth). London 5. or 8.10.1751 — London 14.2.1834. British Colonial Officer. Son of Thomas Shore, educated at Harrow. ...

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. 1??? — 1???. French Colonial Officer in India, interested in Indian law. Sous-commissaire de la marine, ...

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

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

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

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

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. Lippoldsberg an der Weser, Hessen 25.11.1850 — Leipzig 30.3.1932. German Phonetician, Germanic and IE Linguist. Professor in Leipzig. Educated in Kassel. ...

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

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 (baron). Paris 21.9.1758 — Paris 21.2.1838. French Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of a ...

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 (Ximen Xuade). Berlin 10.6.1893 — London 22.2.1981. German Sinologist ...

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

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

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

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

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

SKÖLD, Johannes (Hannes) Evelinus. Västerlövsta, Västmanland 20.9.1886 — ...

SKREFSRUD, Laurentius (Lars) Olsen. Fåberg in Oppland 4.2.1840 — Benagaria (now in Jharkand) 11.12.1910. Norwegian Missionary in India. in his troubled youth he ...

SKRINE, Francis Henry Bennett. 1847 — 1933. British Civil Servant in India. “Son of Captain Clarmont Skrine retired officer in Wimbledon], educated at ...

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. Dobrovice 29.11.1883 — Prague 30.12.1965. Czechoslovakian Student of IE Linguistics. Studied at Charles University in Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1917/18. ...

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

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

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

SMÉKAL, Odolen. Olomouc 18.8.1928 — Prague 17.6.1998. Czech Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Son of Vaclav Martin Smékal and Anežka Smičková. Studies at ...

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

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. 22.5.1881 — 1943. Polish Oriental Scholar. Professor of Ancient Oriental Languages and Sanskrit in Poznań. He was mainly a scholar of ...

SMIRNOV, Boris Leonidovič. Černigov gub. (now Černigiv, Ukraina) 1891 — 1967. Russian (Ukrainian?) Physician interested in Indology. Professor of Medicine and ...

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

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. 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, George. Leith 28.4.1833 — Edinburgh 24.12.1919. British (Scots) Teacher in India. “Son of Adam Smith, educated at the ...

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

SMITH, May. 18?? — 19??. Britishwoman interested in Pāli. Doomed to remain ...

SMITH, Ray Caldwell. 20.7.1872 ...

SMITH, Ronald Morton.

SMITH, Vincent Arthur. Dublin 3.6.1848 — Oxford 6.2.1920. Irish Indologist, Historian and ...

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

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

SNYDER, Edmund Nathaniel. St.Louis MO 25.3.SÖDERBLOM, Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan)

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

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

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

SOMMER, Johann Ferdinand. Trier ...

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. Ilfeld/Harz 22.2.1820 — Wismar 3.5.1873. German IE Scholar. Schoolteacher in ...

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

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

SOOTHILL, William Edward. Halifax 23.1.1861 — Oxford 13.5.1935. Canadian Missionary in China, then Sinologist ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SPECHT, Edouard Prosper Emmanuel. 1843 — Paris 2.3.1906. French ...

SPECHT, Franz. Rosslau/Anhalt 1.11.1888 ...

SPENCER, Arthur Marshman. 1??? — 1???. British?

SPENCER, Harold

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

SPIEGEL, Ludwig Friedrich ...

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. Bad Kreuznach 5.4.1901 — Bonn ...

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

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

SPOONER, Elizabeth Colton (née Elizabeth Swester Colton). 18?? — ...

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

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

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

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

St. BARBE (Browne), Henry Lewis (Louis). St. JOHN, Richard Fleming

STACKELBERG, Reinhold Otto Georg, Baron von. STAPLETON, Henry Ernest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

STEIN, Mark Aurel.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 18?? — 19??. German Indologist. Ph.D in 1881 Leipzig.

STEMPEL, Guido Herman. ?.5.1868 — 1955. U.S. ...

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

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 (lay Antonio Buffi)STEPHENS (Stevens), Thomas (Thomaz/Tomás Estevão)

STERN, Philippe. 11.4.1895 — Paris 4.4.1979. French Art Historian specialized in Indian ...

STERNBACH, Ludwik. Cracow 12.12.1910 — Paris 25.3.1981. Polish Indologist. Studied law at ...

STEVENSON, Alice Margaret ...

STEVENSON, John. Alton Campsie, Stirlingshire 3.11.1798 — 11.8.1858. Rev. British (Scots) Missionary ...

STEVENSON, John Sinclair. 4.2.1868 — 8.5.1930. Irish Missionary in India, husband of —> M. S. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

STÖNNER, Albert Heinrich.

STORCK, Friedrich Wilhelm ...

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

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

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

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

STRANGWAYS, Arthur Henry Fox. Norwich 14.9.1859 — Dinton, Wiltshire 2.5.1948. British Musicologist. Son of ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

STROHAL, Emil Ernst. 18?? — 19??. Austrian Student of Indology. From Kärnten. Ph.D. 1900 ...

STRONG, Dawsonne Melanchthon. 1841 — 19??. British Officer interested in Buddhism. Major-General, retired from ...

STRONG, Sandford Arthur.

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

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

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

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

SULEJKIN, Dmitrij Aleksandrovič. 1900 — 1948. Russian Indologist. Employed (as naučnyj sotrudnik) ...

SULPIZI, Giuseppe. 1875 — 19??. Italian. In Florence (Istituto Superiore di Firenze).

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

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

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

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

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

SYKES, William Henry. near Bradford, Yorkshire 25.1.1790 ...

SZEMERÉNYI, Oswald John Louis. London 7.9.1913 — Freiburg i. Br. 29.12.1996. Hungarian ...

SZERB, János. Budapest 7.1.1951 — Vienna 6.10.1988. Hungarian Tibetologist. Studies at Budapest. Ph.D. 1982. ...

SZIDAROVSZKY, János. Budapest 20.10.1881 — Budapest 30.12.1947. ...