QUEYROZ, Fernão de. Canavezes near Amarante 1617 — Goa 12.4.1688. S.J. Portuguese Priest and Historian in India. Joined S.J. in 1631 in Coimbra and arrived at Cochin in 1635. In 1635-41 studied philosophy, then theology in Goa. From 1647 taught theology at St. Paul’s College in Goa. Rector of college…
PETTAZZONI, Raffaele. San Giovanni in Persiceto, near Bologna 3.2.1883 — Rome 8.12.1959. Italian Anthropologist, Archaeologist and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Rome. Son of Cesare Pettazzoni and Maria Luigia Minezzi. Studies of archaeology, etc. at Bologna and Rome. Ph.D. 1905 Bologna. From 1909 worked at Sardinian Department of Antiquities…
ZIMMERMANN, Karl-Heinz. Basel 7.2.1929 — Basel 11.3.1986. Swiss Indo-Tibetologist. Professor in Lausanne. Son of chauffeur Friedrich Z. and Frieda Schlotz. Studied music in Basel and in 1954-81 worked as piano teacher. From 1958 studies of Indology, Buddhism and Tibetology at Basel, Zürich and Freiburg i.Br. Ph.D. 1967 Basel. In 1971-79…
ZIEGENBALG, Bartholomäus. Pulsnitz, Saxony 14.6.1683 (or 10.6.1682?) — Tranquebar, India 23.2.1719. German Missionary and Precursor of Indology (Tamil Scholar). In South India 1706-19. Son of the elder B.Z. (1640–1694), a modest grain merchant, and Maria Brückner (1646–1692). After gymnasium in Görlitz and Berlin, studied one year under A. H. Francke…
ZAEHNER, Robert Charles. Sevenoaks, Kent 8.4.1913 — Oxford 24.11.1974. British Scholar of Comparative Religion, especially Iranian and Indian. Professor in Oxford. Son of Swiss-German immigrants to England. Educated at Tonbridge School. From 1932 studied at Christ Church College, Oxford, i.al. classics, Persian and Iranian, also Sanskrit and Arabic, 1936-37 Middle Persian…
OTTO, Rudolf Louis Karl. Peine, Hannover 25.9.1869 — Marburg 6.3.1937. German Lutheran Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Marburg. Son of Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (1809–1882), a factory owner, and Katharine Karoline Henriette Sophie Reupke (1818–1911), lost his father in the age of 12. Matriculated 1888 from Hildesheim, studied theology…
OMAN, John Campbell. Calcutta 1841 — 30/31.5.1911. British Indologist and Scholar of Religion in India. Son of the elder John Campbell Oman (1814–1849), a planter, and Maria Eweler (1813–1868). In 1866-77 in Indian Public Works Department. In 1877-97 Professor at Government College in Lahore, then retired. In 1898-99 Principal of…
OLTRAMARE, Jean Paul Gamaliel. Geneva 6.4.1854 — Geneva 22.10.1930. Swiss Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Geneva. Son of André Oltramare (1822–1896), the Professor of Latin at Geneva University, of an old Genevan family, and and Jeanne Louise Adrienne Fournier, a Protestant family. Studies of sciences and humanities at…
MOOR, Edward. 1771 — Westminster 26.2.1848. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Major. Left for India as young cadet in 1782, arrived at Madras 1783. “Served with the Mahratta Army against Tippoo, 1790-1, at Dharwar, Doridrug, Gadjnur; wrote, in 1794, an account of the operations. Officiated as Quarter-Master-General;…
MONIER-WILLIAMS, Monier (until 1887 Monier Williams). Bombay 12.11.1819 — Cannes, France 11.4.1899. Sir. British Indologist. Professor in Oxford. Third son of Colonel Monier Williams (1775–1823, R.E., Surveyor-General in Bombay Presidency, 24 years in India) and Hannah Sophia Brown. Sent to England in 1822 he was educated in Chelsea and Brighton,…