LANE-POOLE, Stanley Edward. London 18.17.1854 — London 29.12.1931. British Historian, Archaeologist and Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Son of Edward Stanley Poole (1830–1867, also an Arabic scholar) and Roberta Elizabeth Louisa Reddelien (1820–1866), through his paternal grandmother grand-nephew of Edward William Lane (1801–1876, famous Arabist). After parents’ early death raised by his…
LAMOTTE, Étienne Paul Marie. Dinant, prov. Namur 21.2.1903 — Brussels 5.5.1983. Monseigneur. Belgian Indologist and Catholic Priest. Professor in Louvain. Born in a big family as the son of the court officer and historian Georges Lamotte (1861–1952). After classical education in Dinant took ecclesiastic career like his brother. Now studied…
STILL, John. Lambeth, London 1880 — Port Arthur, South Africa 9.9.1941. British Tea Planter Author, and Archaeologist in Sri Lanka. Son of Canon John Still (1845–1914) and Anna Nitrill (or Nihill, 1853–1894), educated at Winchester College. In 1897 emigrated to Ceylon and became a tea planter near Dickoya in Central…
STIRLING, Andrew. 13.12.1794 — Calcutta 23.5.1830. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Vice-Admiral Charles Stirling (1760–1833) of Woburn, Surrey and Charlotte Grote, educated at Haileybury, 1811-12. To India in 1813. After College of Fort William 1814 Assistant to Resident in Delhi, then Commissioner’s Secretary in Cuttack until 1828. “Persian…
SCHWAB, Raymond Sem. Nancy 23.2.1884 — Paris 2.6.1956. French Author, High Official and Historian of Oriental Studies. Son of insurance director Alexandre Schwab and Léontine Lévy, a Jewish family from Lorraine. Educated in Nancy. Licence-es-lettres 1906 Paris. Participated in WW I 1915-19. In 1920 adopted Catholic Christianity. Served in high…
STAPLETON, Henry Ernest. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire (?) 3.5.1878 — St.Brelade, Jersey 12.2.1962. British Civil Servant in India, Historian of Science. Son of Rev. Henry Stapleton and Matilda Merritt. Educated at Bradford Grammar School. Studies at Oxford, M.A. and B.Sc. (in Chemistry, 1899). In 1900, after one year as research scholar at…
STRZYGOWSKI, Josef. Biala, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 7.3.1862 — Vienna 2.1.1941. Austrian Art Historian. Professor in Vienna. Son of a cloth manufacturer, Josef Strzygowski (1823–1877), and his wife Josefine Fraas, Edle von Friedenfelt (1833–1909), a Roman Catholic of minor nobility. In 1880 took apprenticeship in a weaving plant,…
SYKES, William Henry. near Bradford, Yorkshire 25.1.1790 — Kensington, London 16.6.1872. British Colonial Officer in India, with wide scholarly interests. Colonel. Son of Samuel Sykes, an estate owner. Entered as cadet in 1803, Lieutenant in Bombay Army 1805, participated in the siege of Bharatpur. Learned soon Hindī and Marāṭhī and…
STEIN, Burton. Chicago 1926 — 26.4.1996. U.S. Historian of South Asia. Grew up in Chicago. Served in WW II, then studies at Chicago campus of the University of Illinois (no B.A.) and at the University of Chicago (M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1957). Taught 1957-65 at Minneapolis and 1965-83 at University of…
SCHURHAMMER, Georg Otto. Unterglottertal, Südschwarzwald 25.9.1882 — Rome 2.11.1971. S.J. Father. German Historian of Catholic Missions in Asia, especially of Francisco Xavier. Son of Urban Schurhammer, an innkeeper, and Rosina Katharina Hoch. Educated in Durlach and Karlsruhe. From 1900 theological studies at Freiburg i. Br., joined the S.J. in 1903…