GARCIN DE TASSY, Joseph-Héliodore-Sagesse-Vertu. Marseille 20.1.1794 — Paris 2.9.1878. French Indologist (Hindi-Urdu) and Oriental Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of Joseph Jacques Garcin, a stockbroker, and Claire Virginie Tassy. Educated in Marseille, where he also learned spoken Arabic. From 1817 studies of law in Paris, at the same time Persian…
GARBE, Richard Karl (von). Bredow bei Stettin (now Szczecin-Drzełowo) 9.3.1857 — Tübingen 22.9. 1927. German Indologist. Professor in Tübingen. Son of Gustav Garbe, a factory owner, and Eugenie Konopka. In gymnasium in Stettin he had Grassmann among his teachers. Studies at Tübingen, soon switched from law to Sanskrit (Roth). Ph.D.…
GALANOS, Demetrios (Dimitrios G., Δημήτριος Γαλανός). Athens 1760 — Varanasi 3.5.1833. Greek Indologist in India. Son of Pantaleon and Diamanta Galanos, a wealthy Athenian family, educated in Athens, Patmos and Constantinople, where his uncle had a high ecclesiatic position. Himself rejected the priestly career. In 1786 he came to India…
FUMI, Fausto Gherardo. Montepulciano (Tuscany) 17.10.1840 — Genoa 1915. Italian Linguist interested in Sanskrit Literature. Studies at Pisa (under Bardelli, diplome 1862), Florence and Leipzig. First teacher in Liceo di Reggio-Calabria, then taught at University of Palermo in 1887-90 and from 1890 at Genoa, where he became ord. Professor of…
FÜRER-HAIMENDORF, Christoph(er) von. Vienna 27.6.1909 — London 11.6.1995. Austrian Anthropologist in the U.K. Professor in London. Son of Rudolf Fürer von H., an Austrian civil servant, of an ancient German family of nobility. Educated at Theresianische Akademie of Vienna University and studied anthropology and archaeology. Student of W. Schmidt, Koppers,…
FÜHRER, Alois Anton. Limburg an der Lahn 26.11.1853 — Binningen near Basel 5.11.1930. German Indologist and Archaeologist in India. Studies of Catholic Theology and Oriental languages at Würzburg. Ordained priest 1877. Ph.D. 1879 Würzburg (apparently under Jolly), soon to India. After a while as Professor of Sanskrit at St. Xavier…
FUCHS, Rudolf. Heidelberg 19.1.1877 — 1941. German Student of Indology. Son of Lazarus Fuchs, a Professor of Mathematics (1833–1902; originally a Jew from Posen, converted in 1860), and Marie Anders. Educated in Heidelberg and several Gymnasiums in Berlin, where his father had got a chair. Studied at Berlin classical and…
FRITZSCHE, Adolf Richard. Leipzig 6.11.1851 — 19??. German Teacher and Indologist. Schoolteacher and Principal in Schneeberg. Son of Johann Gottfried Fritzsche and Agneta Reiz. After gymnasium in Leipzig studies of classics at Leipzig (Ritschl, Curtius), also Indology under Brockhaus. Ph.D. 1873 Leipzig. Teacher at Gymnasium of Chemnitz 1876-88, then principal…
FRIŠ, Oldřich. Boskovice (Moravia) 7.5.1903 — Prague 14.1.1955. Czech Indologist. Professor in Prague. Born in a poor family as one of 12 children, son of Maximilián Friš and his wife Hermina. Matriculated from Boskovice in 1922. Studies at Charles University in Prague in 1922-27, in the first place Classical and…
FRIEDMAN, David Lazar (Lasar). Amsterdam 26.2.1903 — London 11.4.1984. Dutch Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian in the U.K. Born in a Jewish family engaged in diamond trade. After school in Amsterdam he studied three years Sanskrit at Utrecht (under Caland), then history of religion, Sanskrit and Indian art and archaeology…