Durham University – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen

HART, Gillian (Jill) R.

HART, Gillian (Jill) R. Eastbourne, Sussex 11.8.1934 — 8.2.2004. British Indo-European Linguist. Daughter of farmer Alexander and Catherine Hart. After school in Reading briefly studies at local university, then from 1954 at Oxford (mainly Classics, also Sanskrit under Burrow). M.A. B.phil. In 1960-69 Lecturer in Classics at University College of…

MEINHARD, Heinrich

MEINHARD, Heinrich. 1900 — 1975. German Anthropologist and former Student of Indology in the U.K. Ph.D. 1928 Bonn under Kirfel, but then turned to anthropology. Curator of Indian civilisation in Berlin Ethnographic Museum. To save his Jewish wife he escaped 1937 to the U.K. and worked in Pitt Rivers Museum…