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…
HILLER, Hiram Milliken, Jr. near Kahoka, Clark county, Missouri 8.3.1867 — Bellefonte, PA 8.8.1921. U.S. Physician, Explorer, and Ethnographer. Son of Colonel Hiram Milliken Hiller, Sr. (1834–1895) and Sarah Fulton Bell. Graduated B.S. 1887 from Parsons College, Iowa. Studied at the medical school of University of Pennsylvania (graduated 1891), met…
DUKES, Terence (Shifu Nagaboshi Tomio). London 1946 — 2005. British Bauddha interested in Martial Arts. In 1978 founded the Kongoryuji Temple in Norfolk, England, then teaching there. Died of heart failure. Publications: The Bodhisattva Warriors: the origin, inner philosophy, history and symbolism of the Buddhist martial art within India and…
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…
CHEN (Ch’en), Kenneth Kuan-Sheng. Honolulu 20.9.1907 — 25.4.1993. U.S. Indologist (Buddhist scholar). Son of Hua-hsiu Ch’en and Chu See. Studies at University of Hawaii (A.B. 1931), at Harvard-Yenching University in Peking (M.A. 1934), at University of California (in 1940-41), and at Harvard (Ph.D. 1946 in Buddhism and Indology, under Ingalls). In…
CHAPPELL, David Wellington. Saint John, New Brunswick 3.2.1940 — Laguna Hills, CAL 2.12.2004. Canadian Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of Hayward Lynsin Chappell and Mary Elvira Mosher. B.A. 1961 Mount Allison University. B.D. 1965 McGill University. Ph.D. 1976 Yale, in History of Religions. In 1964-66 Minister of United Church of…
SCHLEGEL, Gustaaf. Oegstgeest near Leiden 30.9.1840 — Leiden 15.10.1903. Dutch Sinologist. Son of museum director Hermann Schlegel (1804–1884), a German zoologist who had moved to the Netherlands in 1827, and Cornelia Buddingh. Gymnasium in Leiden. After early studies of Chinese at hole he went in 1857 to China in order…
PÉRI, Noël. Cruzy-le-Châtel (Yvonne) 22.8.1865 — Hanoi 25.6.1922. Father. French Missionary and Sino-Japanologist. Son of a magistrate, school in Neufchâteau (Vosges). Ordained priest in 1888 and left for Japan. Served Paris Foreign Missions Society in Matsumoto (Nagano) and from 1894 in Tokyo. With his broad philosophical views had difficulties with…
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).…
NUSSBAUM, Louis-Frédéric Emmanuel (nom-de-plume Louis Frédéric). Paris 17.12.1923 —Quincy-sous-Sénart near Paris 24.11.1996. French Artist, Art Historian and Writer. Worked as illustrator, travelled in North Africa. Interested in Asia he studied at Sorbonne and É.P.H.É. Did not enter academic career and remained free author. Several visits to Asia, took numerous photographs.…