STEPHEN, Dorothea Jane. Simla 20.7.1871 — Andover, Hampshire 9.11.1965. British Missionary in South India. Cousin to Virginia Woolf; daughter of a lawyer, Bart. James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894), and Mary Richenda Cunningham. Born in India grew up in England. Warden of St. Andrew’s Missionary Training College in Madras. Unmarried. Publications: Studies in…
SELTMANN, Friedrich. Stuttgart 21.2.1912 — 3.9.1997. German Indian and South-East Asian Scholar, specialist of Theatre Traditions (especially shadow puppetry). Studied Comparative Religion, Ethnology and Indology at Tübingen, Ph.D. 1960. Based in Stuttgart, in the 1970s and 80s several study travels to India and South-East Asia. In the late 1980s in…
SCHOFIELD, Sylvia Anne (née Terry-Smith, then Matheson). London 20.5.1916 — Javea, Spain 2.3.2006. British Archaeologist. Daughter of William Horace Smith, an architect and chartered surveyor, and Annie Terry, a Salvation Army officer, educated at Wimbledon Technical College. A free journalist from the age of 16, during WWII in BBC. She…
RIENCOURT, Amaury de, Marquis. Orléans 18.6.1918 — Bellevue, Switzerland 13.1.2005. French Historian, Indian, South-East Asian and Tibetan Scholar. Born in an old family of nobility, son of Marquis Olivier de Riencourt and Anne Le Bas du Plessis. Graduated from Sorbonne, M.A. Algiers. In 1939-40 served in French navy. In 1947…
BUSSON, Andrée. Paris 25.2.1910 — Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) 9.12.1985. Mme. French Art Historian. Joined Société asiatique in 1949. In 1978 in Paris. In 2019 described as “licenciée ès lettres, chargée de mission au Musée Guimet”. Married Dr. André Busson (1902–1968). Publications: “Les fouilles françaises dans l’Inde du Sud (1949-1952)”, Arts as. 1,…
BURTON-PAGE, John Garrard. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 19.9.1921 — Church Knowle, Dorset 13.6.2005. British Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar and Historian). Music studies (horn) at Royal College of Music were interrupted after one term through war service in India and Burma, learned now Hindi and Nepali and after war studied from 1946 Sanskrit…
ALSTON, Anthony J. 1919 — 2004. British (?) Indologist specialized in Advaita Vedānta. Pupil of Hari Prasad Sastri (d. 1956). Ph.D. 1964 under T. R. V. Murti on Post-Śaṁkara Advaita Vedānta, Banaras Hindu University. Later living in London. Publications: Diss. Early Post-Samkara Advaita. Diss. B.H.U. 1964 (manuscript). – Translated: Sureśvara, Naiṣkarma-siddhi. The realization…
KUIPER, Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus. the Hague 7.7.1907 — Zeist, prov. Utrecht 14.11.2003. Dutch Indologist, Munda and Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. Son of the elder F. B. J. Kuiper (1878–1973), a schoolteacher, and Anna Maria van Dijk. After school in the Hague studied classical and IE philology, at Leiden, and…
SCHLERATH, Holger Bernfried. Leipzig 15.5.1924 — Berlin 30.5.2003 (or 12.12.?). German Indo-Iranian Scholar. The only child of literary editor Dr. Franz Schlerath and Karoline Suter, in 1928 the family moved to Frankfurt. Matriculated 1943 from Frankfurt, briefly student at Frankfurt, in 1944-45 in the army as wireless operator (briefly war…
ROGERS, Alexander. 1825/26 — 27.11.1910. British Civil Servant and Persian Scholar in India. Educated at Haileybury, in 1845 joined Bombay Civil Service, served in Northern Division. Collector and Magistrate 1860, Commissioner 1865, Member of Council 1872, retired 1879. Married 1847 Jane Georgina Davison (b. 1828), six daughters and three sons.…