MARŠAK, Boris Il’ič. Luga 9.7.1933 — Pendžikent 28.7.2006. Russian Archaeologist and Iranian (Sogdian) Scholar. Son of an official, grew up in Leningrad. Graduated 1956 from Moscow in history. Kand. ist. nauk 1965 Leningrad. In 1956-58 naučnyj sotrudnik at Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography in Dushanbe, from 1961 at Oriental…
MÄNCHEN-HELFEN, Otto Johann/John. Vienna 26.6.1894 — Berkeley 29.1.1969. Austrian Sinologist and Central Asian Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Berkeley. Son of Johann Helfen (1859–1938), a book printer, and Agnes Katharina Mänchen (1867–1944). After school in Vienna began studies at Vienna, but soon had to serve in WW I, then…
HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth. Galesburg, Illinois 16.9.1876 — New Haven 17.10.1947. U.S. Geographer and Central Asian Explorer. Graduated from Beloit College 1897. M.A. 1902 Harvard. Ph.D. 1909 Yale. He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey (1897-1901), then accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905-1906) expeditions to Central Asia, in 1909 led an expedition…
HEISSIG, Walter (Walther). Vienna 5.12.1913 — Rheinböllen 5.9.2005. Austrian Mongolian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Bonn. Studied Mongolian in the 1930s ar Vienna and Berlin. Joined SA 1932, 1934 switched to SS. From 1940 in Peking, also visited Inner Mongolia. Ph.D. 1941 Vienna. He remained the war years until 1946 in…
HÄRTEL, Herbert. Hoyerswerda 7.5.1921 — Berlin 23.11.2005. German Indologist, Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian. Studies at Halle and Göttingen (under Waldschmidt). Ph.D. Göttingen 1953. In 1953-62 Curator in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin. From 1963 Direktor of Museum für indische Kunst in Berlin (which was much his own creation), also…
BONVALOT, Pierre Gabriel Édouard. Épagne (Aube) 13.7.1853 — Auteuil, Paris 10.12.1933. French Central Asian Explorer. Son of Pierre Bonvalot and Louise-Félicie Congniasse des Jardins, school in Troyes. In 1880-82 and 1886-87 expeditions to Russian Central Asia. In 1889-90 with Prince Henri of Orléans through Russia to Chinese Central Asia, then through…
ANDREWS, Frederick Henry (Fred). 1866 — 1957. British Educator and Scholar in India, a lay Art Historian, noted for his catalogues of M. A. Stein’s Central Asian finds. Son of publisher Arliss Andrews. He studied stained glass and joined the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and Society for the Protection of Ancient…
HARMATTA, János. Hódmezővásárhely, komitat Csongrád 2.10.1917 — Budapest 24.7.2004. Hungarian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Born in south-eastern Hungary. After gymnasium in his home town from 1935 studies of classical, IE and Iranian philology and Indology at Budapest, Ph.D. 1940 in Greek. Then in army and briefly war-prisoner. From 1947 Docent of Greek…
DAFFINÀ, Paolo. Rome 26.6.1929 — 23.11.2004. Italian Historian of Asia. Professor in Rome. Studies in Rome under Tucci and Petech. Ph.D. 1953 Rome. In 1954-55 and 1955-56 further studies at Nagpur and Poona (under Gokhale) in India. From 1959 Assistant, 1965 PD and 1967 Professor incaricato of East Asian History…
OLLONE, Henri Marie Gustave, vicomte d’. Besançon 4.9.1868 — Lorp-Sentaraille (Ariège) 7.10.1945. French Officer and Explorer. General. Son of Ernest François d’Ollone (1833–1896) and Marie Adelaide d’Amandre. Military education at Saint-Cyr, in 1895 participted in Madagascar campaign. Then served in West Africa (defining the border of Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia).…