VOROB’EV-DESJATOVSKIJ, Vladimir Svjatoslavovič. Tver 3.10.1927 — Leningrad 2.7.1956. Russian Indologist. Son of an official. After the 9th school class joined the army and served in 1944-45 in Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Disbanded in 1945 he concluded his school education and studied at the Oriental Faculty of Leningrad University Indology (specially…
VOLKOVA, Oktjabrina Fëdorovna. Leningrad 23.1.1926 — 22.10.1988. Russian Indologist, specialist of Buddhist Sanskrit literature. Daughter of an officer, Fëdor Andreevič Volkov. Graduated 1952 from Leningrad Oriental Faculty. In 1952-56 taught at Institute of Foreign Affairs. In 1956-81 naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute. Publications: At least 10 items, e.g. – Transl.…
VASIL’EV, Vasilij Pavlovič (Wassilieff). Nižni-Novgorod 20.2.(4.3.)1818 — St.Petersburg 27.4.1900. Russian Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in St.Petersburg. Son of a minor civil servant. After school in Nižnij-Novgorod he studied from 1834 Tatar and Mongolian at Kazan University (under Èrdman, Kowalewski, et al.), Kand. 1837. Now studied Chinese under Archimandrite Daniil. Learned…
UPHAM, Edward. Exeter 1776 — Bath 25.8.1834. British Bookdealer and Orientalist. Born in Exeter, where his father Charles Upham was later (1796) the mayor. Himself worked as bookseller in Exeter, in 1807 became its sheriff and 1809 mayor. After earlyretirement lived in Dawlish (Devon) and Bath. Married 1801 Mary Hoblyn…
UNKRIG, Wilhelm Alexander. Köslin, Pomerania (now Koszalin in Poland) 1883 — Traisa near Darmstadt 24.6.1956. German Mongolian and Lamaist Scholar. Son of a crofter. From 1908 he was trained for missionary work among the Mongols at Religious Academy in Kazan and in 1912 became Russian Orthodox priest. The World War…
UHLIG, Helmut. Chemnitz 18.5.1922 — Rotenburg an der Wümme 24.2.1997. German Teacher and Author interested in Buddhist Studies. Son of post official Georg Uhlig and his wife Olga, a leftist family highly critical towards Nazis. Matriculated in 1942, then in army, but was wounded in Balkan and could begin the…
ZIMMERMANN, Karl-Heinz. Basel 7.2.1929 — Basel 11.3.1986. Swiss Indo-Tibetologist. Professor in Lausanne. Son of chauffeur Friedrich Z. and Frieda Schlotz. Studied music in Basel and in 1954-81 worked as piano teacher. From 1958 studies of Indology, Buddhism and Tibetology at Basel, Zürich and Freiburg i.Br. Ph.D. 1967 Basel. In 1971-79…
ZIMMERMANN, Friedrich Albert Oswald (Subhadra Bhikṣu/Bhikkhu). Degerloch near Stuttgart 8.4.1851 — Stuttgart 30.6.1917. German Bauddha. Studied mathematics and became an engineer. Also worked as journalist. He became interested in Buddhism through Schopenhauer and studied some Pāli, but was mainly influenced by Neumann’s Majjhimanikāya. Together with Seidenstücker, he founded in 1911 the…
OLTRAMARE, Jean Paul Gamaliel. Geneva 6.4.1854 — Geneva 22.10.1930. Swiss Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Geneva. Son of André O. (1822–1896), the Professor of Latin at Geneva University, of an old Genevan family, and and Jeanne Louise Adrienne Fournier. Studies of sciences and humanities at Geneva in 1872-75…
OLSCHAK, Blanche Christine. Vienna 24.7.1913 — Zürich 25.6.1989. Austrian Journalist and Tibetan Scholar in Switzerland. Daughter of Joseph Olschak, an officer (General-Major), and Lilly Helene Bücheler. Studied Political Science at Graz (Ph.D. 1937), then Tibetan and Buddhism, a follower of A. David-Neel. From 1946 living in Zürich (after her husband…