GEDEN, Alfred Shenington. Didsbury, Manchester 26.11.1857 — Bromley, London 3.8.1936. Rev. British Scholar of Religion. Son of John Dury Geden (1822–1886), D.D. of St.Andrews and Wesleyan minister, and Elizabeth Mease. Educated at Manchester Grammar School, studies at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1881 ordained Wesleyan minister. M.A. Oxford. D.D. Aberdeen. In…
FOULKES, Thomas. Wales 1826 — 1901. Rev. British (Welsh) Priest and Indologist in India. Educated in Islington, ordained deacon 1848 and priest 1851. In 1849-55 worked for Church Missionary Society in Tinnevelly, 1855-58 in Madras and 1858-59 in Tamil Cooly mission in Ceylon. Giving up missionary work he was from…
FILLIOZAT, Jean Lucien Antoine. Paris 4.11.1906 — Paris 27.10.1982. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of a physician, educated in Paris (Lycée Henri IV and Louis le Grand). After studies of medicine in Paris (Dr. med. 1930) he practised as ophthalmologist until 1947. But he became early interested in India…
FENICIO, Jacobo (Jacome, Finicio). Capua c. 1558 — Cochin 1632. Father, S.J. Italian Missionary, in India 1583-1632, working in Malabar Mission, mainly in Cochin and Calicut (Kochi & Kozhikode). Around 1603/09 he wrote in Portuguese an interesting account of Indian religion, which was used as a manuscript by his successors…
ESNOUL, Anne-Marie Helène. Saint-Malo, Brittany 19.4.1908 — Saint-Malo 23.1.1996. French Indologist. Esnoul-Le Sénéchal is a noble family of Saint-Malo, daughter of Louis Esnoul-Le Sénéchal and Andrée Lebret. After school in Saint-Malo and licence de philosophie in Paris, studied from 1934 Sanskrit under Masson-Oursel and Stchoupak. Diplome d’É.P.H.É. 1947, Ph.D. 196?.…
ESCHMANN, Anncharlott. Munich 24.9.1941 — Delhi 6.4.1977. German Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Daughter of Professor Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann (1904–1987), a Sociologist, and his wife Charlott, a psychotherapist. Grew up in Ticino, Switzerland. From 1961 studies of Protestant theology, comparative religion and Indology at Munich, Marburg and Heidelberg. Ph.D. 1969.…
ENTWISTLE, Alan William. Weymouth, Dorsett 10.3.1949 — Seattle 28.3.1996. British Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Seattle. Son of W. D. Entwistle and Neta D. Whiles. Studies at University of Southampton (B.A. 1971 in French) and S.O.A.S. (M.A. 1975 in Area Studies). In 1976-78 field-work in Vrindaban, India. Ph.D. 1982…
EIDLITZ, Walther. Vienna 28.8.1892 — Vaxholm, Uppland, Sweden 28.8.1978. Austrian Author interested in Indian Religion. Son of Sigmund Eidlitz and Friederike Weiss, a well-to-do Jewish family. Studies at Technische Hochschule, Vienna, graduated as building engineer. Participated in the WW I and after it started a career as free author. In…
DIEHL, Carl Gustav Ruben. Malmö 21.9.1906 — Lund 1/2.5.1995. Swedish Lutheran Missionary, Bishop, and Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of Anders Diehl (1857–1928), a house manager, and Emma Christina Andersson, matriculated from Malmö in 1925. From 1925 studies of theology at Lund, teol.kand. 1929, ordained as priest in 1930.…
DE GUBERNATIS, Giuseppe Angelo. Turin 7.4.1840 — Rome 26.12.1913. Count. Italian Indologist. Professor in Florence and Rome. Born in a noble family, son of Giambattista De Gubernatis (d. 1867), a revenue official, and Maria Cleofe Turchetti; his brother was the diplomat and geographer Enrico De Gubernatis (1836–1914), his sister the educator…