SCHRAM, Robert Gustav. Lemberg (L’viv) 18.1.1850 — Vienna 23.12.1923. Austrian Astronomer and Geodecist. Born in the then Austro-hungarian part of Ukraine, son of lawyer Adolf Schram. After gymnasium in Cracow from 1869 studies at Vienna. Ph.D. and PD 1874 Vienna. In 1872-73 briefly Assistant at Geneva observatory, then Th. von Oppolzer’s…
SEWELL, Robert. Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 4.6.1845 — London 30.12.1925. British Civil Servant, Historian and Indologist in India. Son of Robert Burleigh Sewell (1809–1872), solicitor in the Isle of Wight, and Marianne Billingsley Seymour (1815–1849). Educated at St. Peter’s College, Radley. After examination in 1866 joined I.C.S. and arrived in…
PARGITER, Frederick Eden. Jaffna, Sri Lanka 1852 — Charlbury, Oxfordshire 18.2.1927. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India (I.C.S. 1875-1906). Son of Rev. Robert Pargiter (1816–1915) and Anna Matilda Palm, educated at Taunton Grammar School. Studies at Oxford (Exeter College), mathematics, Sanskrit, etc. In 1875 he joined the Bengal Civil…
KIELHORN, Lorenz Franz. Osnabrück 31.5.1840 — Göttingen 19.3.1908. German Indologist. Professor in Pune and Göttingen. Son of Johann Andreas Christian Kielhorn, a stonemason, and Anna Marie Hildebrandt. After school in Bernburg (Anhalt) studies of Indology, etc. at Göttingen (Benfey), Breslau (Stenzler) and Berlin (Weber). Ph.D. 1862. Leipzig when 21. In…
JACOBI, Hermann Georg. Köln 11.2.1850 (or 1.2.?) — Bonn 19.10.1937. German Indologist. Professor in Bonn. Son of a steam mill owner, Friedrich Heinrich Otto Jacobi (1803–1880) and Caroline Zeiz. Roman Catholic, educated in Köln. From 1868 studies of mathematics at Berlin, switched soon to Sanskrit and IE. Through Weber he…
GINZEL, Friedrich Karl. Reichenberg (Liberec in Czechia) 23.2.1850 — Berlin 29.6.1926. Austrian (Bohemian) Astronomer in Berlin. Son of Friedrich Ginzel and his wife Helene. From 1877 Assistant at Th. von Oppolzer’s observatory in Vienna, in 1886 moved to Berlin, worked there at Astronomisches Rechen-Institut. Professor’s title 1899. Married, widower 1919.…
FLEET, John Faithfull. Royston (Chiswick) 1.5.1847 — London 21.2.1917. British Indologist (Epigraphist and Historian). Son of John George Fleet (1818–1902), a wholesale sugar dealer, and Esther Faithful, educated at Merchant Taylor’s School in London. In 1865 he passed the I.C.S. examination and began studies at University College in London, including…
DUFF (Mrs. Rickmers), Christian Mabel. Calcutta 7.12.1866 — Munich 24.12.1939. British (Scottish) Traveller and Indologist. Daughter of merchant William Pirie Duff, a merchant in Calcutta, and Isabella Davidson, granddaughter of the pioneer of Scottish mission in India, Dr. Alexander Duff (1806–1876). Educated in London and Berlin, she studied Sanskrit at…