GLASENAPP, Otto Max Helmuth von. Berlin 8.9.1891 — Tübingen 25.6. 1963. German Indologist. Professor in Königsberg and Tübingen. Son of —> Otto von Gl. and Elisabeth (Lilli) Marie Jähns. Educated in Berlin, as a schoolboy already much interested in India and Sanskrit. After one term of law studies at Tübingen…
GEYLER, Alexius. 18?? — 1???. German Student of Religion. Ph.D. 1875 Jena. One Dr. A.G, was Lutheran vicar in Frankenthal (Gera) in 1881-94. Publications: Diss. Das System des Manichäismus und sein Verhältnis zum Buddhismus. 62 p. Jena 1875. Sources: Diss. in Janert, but no vita in diss; Thüringer Pfarrerbuch 4,…
GETTY, Alice. Muskegon, Mich. 1865 — New York 12.6.1946. U.S. Art Historian. Daughter of Henry H. Getty (1838–1920), a rich businessman (“lumber baron”), and Carrie Eliza G. (d. 1890). After his wife’s death the father retired from business and travelled widely in Europe and Asia with his daughter and made…
GEIGER, Wilhelm Ludwig. Nürnberg 21.7.1856 — Neubiberg near Munich 2.9. 1943. German Iranian Scholar and Indologist. Professor in Erlangen and Munich. Husband of —> M. Geiger. Son of Johannes Leonhard G. (1820–1894), a Lutheran minister, and Emma Paur (1832–1918). Studied classical philology and Oriental languages at Berlin, Bonn and Erlangen…
GEIGER, Magdalene (née Grobe). Calbe (an der Saale) 19.6.1877 — 25.1.1960. German Indologist. Wife of —> W. Geiger. Daughter of a flax mill owner, according to custom of the time was sent to a girls’ school in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In school and at home she learnt classical…
GEDEN, Alfred Shenington. Didsbury, Manchester 26.11.1857 — Bromley, London 3.8.1936. Rev. British Scholar of Religion. Son of John Dury G. (1822–1886), D.D. of St.Andrews and Wesleyan minister, and Elizabeth Mease. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1881 ordained Wesleyan minister. M.A. Oxford. D.D. Aberdeen. In 1886-89…
GABAIN, Annemarie von. Mörchingen (Morhange in Lorraine) 4.7.1901 — Berlin 15.1.1993. German Central Asian (Turcic) Scholar. Professor in Hamburg. Daughter of Arthur v. G., an officer (later General) with Huguenot background and Catholic mother, school in Mainz and Brandenburg. Studied first from 1920 mathematics and natural science at Berlin, from…
FÜHRER, Alois Anton. Limburg an der Lahn 26.11.1853 — Binningen near Basel 5.11.1930. German Indologist and Archaeologist in India. Studies of Catholic Theology and Oriental languages at Würzburg. Ordained priest 1877. Ph.D. 1879 Würzburg (apparently under Jolly), soon to India. After a while as Professor of Sanskrit at St. Xavier…
FRYER, George Edward. India 25.11.1832 — Kensington, London 1891. British Colonial Officer and Pāli Scholar in India and Burma. Son of colonel George Fryer, of Madras army. School at Rugby, in the age of 20 joined Indian army, and Sarah Moore. Served 8 years in regiment and, after a brief…
FRIEDMAN, David Lazar (Lasar). Amsterdam 26.2.1903 — London 11.4.1984. Dutch Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian in the U.K. Born in a Jewish family engaged in diamond trade. After school in Amsterdam he studied three years Sanskrit at Utrecht (under Caland), then history of religion, Sanskrit and Indian art and archaeology…