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 of a physician, Cornelius Poppäus S., and Friederike Ries. Educated in Emden and from 1897 at missionary seminary in Leipzig, left for India in 1902following in the steps of…