SMITH, George. Leith near Edinburgh 28.4.1833 — Edinburgh 24.12.1919. British (Scottish) Teacher in India, Historian and Geographer. Son of Adam Smith (1809–1837) and Isabella Anderson. Lost early his father and also mother died before 1851. Educated at the Royal High School, studies at University of Edinburgh: LL.D. 1868. Professor 1854…
SKRINE, Francis Henry Bennett. Cahir, county Tipperary 23.12.1847 — Les Bosquets, Aix-en-Provence 8.12.1933. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Clarmont Skrine (1820–1886), a retired officer in Wimbledon, and Mary Ann Auchmuty Bennett. Educated at Blackheath School; entered the I.C.S. 1868, served in Bengal and Bihar. In the 1880s…
SEWELL, Robert. Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 4.6.1845 — London 30.12.1925. British Civil Servant, Historian and Indologist in India. Son of Robert Burleigh Sewell (1809–1872), solicitor in the Isle of Wight, and Marianne Billingsley Seymour (1815–1849). Educated at St. Peter’s College, Radley. After examination in 1866 joined I.C.S. and arrived in…
SENART, Émile Charles Marie. Reims 26.3.1847 — Paris 21.2.1928. French Indologist. Private Scholar in Paris. Born in a rich merchant family, son of Jacques Senart (1794–1860) and Élise Josephine Clémence Colombier (1807–1881). He was educated at lycée in Reims, studied three years at Munich (under Haug) and Göttingen (Benfey). Back…
SELLE, Stefan Hans Götz von. Torgau, Sachsen 28.1.1893 — Göttingen 6.10.1956. German Historian and Iranian scholar. Son of Hans von Selle (1866–1927), an officer (later colonel), and Augusta von Hanstein. After gymnasium in Steglitz studied at Berlin, Kiel and Göttingen German history, art history and Iranian. Ph.D. 1920 Göttingen, in history.…
SEDDON, Charles Norman. Rock Ferry, Cheshire 18.12.1870 — Oxford 27.3.1950. British Civil Servant and Oriental (Marathi and Persian) Scholar. Son of Charles John Seddon and Emily Washburn. Educated in Liverpool, in 1889-91 studies at Oxford (Balliol College). In 1891 to India, served in I.C.S., mainly in Gujarat. In retirement University…
SCHLEGEL, August Wilhelm von. Hannover 5.9.1767 — Bonn 12.5.1845. German Indologist, Classical Scholar and Art Historian. Professor in Bonn. Son of Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721–1793), a Lutheran priest and author, of and old cultural family, and Erdmuthe Hübsch (1735–1811), nephew of the poet Johann Elias Schlegel (1719–1749), himself started early…
SCHIERN, Frederik Eginhard Amadeus Høst. Copenhagen 22.11.1816 — Frederiksberg near Copenhagen 16.12.1882. Danish Historian and Classical Scholar. Son of Jens Kragh Høst (1772–1844), a historian and lawyer, and Susanne Margrethe Oxholm (1786–1845), who after divorce married Niels Schiern (1789–1853, an official). Educated in Copenhagen, then studied history and law there.…
SAINT-MARTIN, Antoine-Jean. Paris 17.1.1791 — Paris 17.7.1832 (Brosset & S. de Sacy say 10.7.). French Oriental (mainly Armenian) Scholar. Son of a tradesman, he first planned commercial career, but at Collège des Quatre-Nations learned Persian, Syriac, Turkish and especially Arabic and Armenian and thus became interested in languages and student…
SACHAU, Eduard. Neumünster, Holstein 20.7.1845 — Berlin 17.9.1930. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Professor in Berlin. Son of Claus Jacob Sachau, school in Rendsburg. Studies of Oriental, especially Semitic philology at Kiel and Leipzig (Fleischer). Ph.D. 1867 Halle. Catalogued the Persian manuscripts at Bodleian Library in 1869. From 1869 ao. and…