LEVY, Robert I. New York 1.6.1924 — Asolo, Italy 29.8.2003. U.S. Anthropologist with Psychoanalytic background. He was trained as a psychoanalytic psychiatrist and had a private practice in psychiatry for several years, before turning to Anthropology. In 1961 and 1962-42 Fieldwork in Tahiti. From 1969 Professor of Anthropology at University…
STONOR, Charles Robert. 20.5.1912 (or 20.4.?) — Brent, Middlesex 1982. British Anthropologist and Naturalist in India. Roman Catholic. Son of Francis Cyril Stonor and Juliana Tindal Bosanquet. Surveyor in the Naga Hills in British period. Then lived at Brooklands North, Sarisbury Green, Hampshire. In 1953-54 visited Nepal. Active photographer. Publications: “The…
PIGNÈDE, Bernard. 16.3.1932 — 21.11.1961, when 29. French Anthropologist of Nepal. Studies in Paris (É.P.H.É.), under L. Dumont, in 1958 seven months fieldwork among Gurungs in Nepal. Died in an accident before his only book appeared. In a review Fürer-Haimendorf praises its scholarly approach, although he conducted his fieldwork before…
MORRIS, John. 1895 — 13.12.1980. British Colonial Officer, Journalist and Social Anthropologist in India. Served in army in 1915-34, after WW I in India. As Gurkha officer learned Nepali. Retired as Major. From 1938 Professor of English Literature at Keio University and Lecturer at Imperial and Bunrika Universities in Tokyo.…
KÖLVER, Bernhard. Ründeroth near Köln 2.4.1938 — Leipzig 27.11.2001. German Indologist. Professor in Köln, Kiel and Leipzig. Son of a gymnasium teacher, who Participated in WW II and died soon after his return from captivity. Educated in Wertheim, Gummersbach und Fort Myers (Florida). From 1956 studies linguistics, Anglistics, Germanistics and…
HITCHCOCK, John Thayer. Springfield, MA 29.6.1917 — Stoughton, Wisconsin 16.1.2001. U.S. Anthropologist. Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Son of Arthur Cornwall H. and Ruth Harriet Thayer. B.A. 1939 Amherst College. M.A. 1941 University Chicago in English Literature. After war service as a pilot in Navy Instructor in English at Amherst…
SILVERSTONE, Marilyn (Bhikshuni Ngawang Chödrön). London 9.3.1929 — near Kathmandu 28.9.1999. U.S. Photojournalist and Buddhist Nun. Daughter of Murray Silverstone (1895–1965), a film director and the son of a Polish immigrant to the U.S.A., for a while working in London, and his wife Dorothy. Grew up in Scarsdale, NY, graduated…
SCHOTERMAN, Jan Anthony. Amersfoort 27.3.1948 — Amersfoort 29.6.1989. Dutch Indologist. Son of Willem Rudolf Sch. and Randi Oppedal. Educated in Amersfoort. In 1968-73 studies of Indo-Iranian and Dravidian at Utrecht, travelled in South and South-East Asia. Ph.D. 1982 Utrecht (under Bodewitz). Taught Indology at Utrecht, for a while also at…
RAU, Heimo. Breslau 30.12.1912 — Filderstadt, Kr. Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg 30.12.1993. German Art Historian and Indologist. Long time in India. Son of Stadtbaurat Ernst Rau and Hedwig Czeschka (of Austria), both Steinerians. Studies of art history, archaeology and Indology at Vienna. In 1933 Assistant at excavations at Feistritz-Pulst in Carinthia. Ph.D.…
TUCCI, Giuseppe Vincenzo. Macerata 5.6.1894 — S. Polo de’ Cavalieri near Rome 5.4.1984. Italian Indologist, Sinologist and Tibetan Scholar. Professor in Rome. Born in a middle-class family, son of Oscar Tucci and Ermengilda Firmani. Learned Latin and Greek at school and privately some Sanskrit. Studied at Rome (originally Latin, soon Sanskrit…