RÜPING, Klaus. Burg near Magdeburg 8.8.1940 — 7.9.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Münster. Son of economist Erich Rüping and his wife, elementary school teacher Hildegard Rüping, grew up in Bochum, gymnasium there until 1959. Then studies of Classics at Münster, from 1963 also Indology (under Hacker), 1963-64 one year at Bonn.…
ROGER RIVIÈRE, Juan. 1903 — ????. Spanish Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Active as early as 1947. Professor of Indology (or Oriental Art) at Complutense in Madrid in the 1960s. Publications: El pensamiento filosófico de Asia. 533 p. Madrid 1960. – La India. 262 p. Barcelona 1962. – “The problem of…
PARRINDER, Edward Geoffrey Simons. New Barnet, Hertfordshire 10.4.1910 — 16.6.2005. British Scholar of Comparative Religion. Methodist minister. Son of a glove dealer, of a practising Wesleyan Methodist family. Educated in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, when 16 began working as a railway booking clerk. Interested in religion and mission studied 1929-32 at Richmond…
KLEUKER, Johann Friedrich. Osterode am Harz 24.10.1749 — Kiel 31.5./1.6.1827. German Protestant theologian. Professor in Kiel. Son of shoemaker Johann Christian Kleuker (1715–1758) and Dorothea Magdalena Rose (1716–1770). From 1770 studied theology, philology and philosophy at Göttingen. Soon befriended with J. G. Herder. From 1778 secondary school principal in Osnabrück.…
JOHNSON, Willard Lyon. Des Moines, Iowa 30.5.1939 — Pauma Valley, Calif. 29.12.2006. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of the elder W. L. Johnson and Margerie Elta Hackenberg. Studies at Oberlin College (B.A. 1961) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1966), Ph.D. 1972 there in Indian Languages and…
HUDSON, Dean Dennis. San Bernardino, Calif. 16.2.1938 — Northampton, Mass. 10.12.2006. U.S. Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of Dean Bradshaw Hudson (1902–1992) and Lisle McClellan. Ph.D. 1970 Claremont, California. From 1970 Professor of World Religions at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., retired as Professor in 2000. He made a…
CONVERSE, Hyla Stuntz (née Hyla Clark Stuntz). Lahore 31.10.1920 — Tulsa, Oklahoma 6.10.1990. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Daughter of Clyde Bronson Stunz (1886–1965) and Florence Ada Watters. B.D. 1949 Union Theological Seminary. Ph.D. 1971 Columbia. At Oklahoma State University (1974). Married 1951 Paul Everett Converse (1921–1993). Publications: Edited: God’s…
BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Helène (née H. Lachaux). L’Hérault 20.5.1920 — Lausanne 27.3.2005. French Indologist. Studied first mathematics and physics, CAPES 1942, and taught them at school in 1942-62, first in France, then 1951-53 Berchtesgaden, 1953-55 Addis Abeba and 1955-62 at Pondichéry French lycée. Now became interested in Śaivism and joined Filliozat’s Śaivasiddhānta team. Also…
HOENS, Dirk Jan. Oldenzaal 11.8.1920 — 23.2.2003. Dutch scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Utrecht. After gymnasium in Leiden and the Hague, from 1939 studies of Indology at Utrecht under Gonda, first interested in language, soon in religion. As his main subject he studied theology, and after his doctorate concentrated…
HARDY, Friedhelm Ernst (Fred). Köln 4.3.1943 — Reading 4.8.2004. German Indologist and Scholar of Indian Religion in the U.K. Brought up by his mother as father had died in the end of war. Started studies of Indology at Münster (under Hacker) and Heidelberg. In 1966 came to the U.K. and…