ROEPSTORFF, Frederik Adolph de

ROEPSTORFF, Frederik Adolph de. on sea 25.3.1842 — Kamorte, Nicobars 24.10.1883.Danish Scholar and Missionary. Son of sea captain Adolph de Roepstorff and Charlotte Georgiana Holmes (née Farley), baptized in Cape Town, which gave him English citizenship. Studied at Copenhagen (cand.phil.) and at Horsens Statsskole, graduated 1863. In 1867 went to…

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JAGOR,  Fedor

JAGOR,  Andreas Fedor. Berlin 30.11.1816 — Berlin 11.2.1900. German Anthropologist. Worked for Berlin Museum für Naturkunde. In 1859-61 travelled in India, South-East Asia and Pacific, then in 1873-76 and 1890-93 in Indonesia. A keen photographer. Publications: Ostindisches Handwerk und Gewerbe mit Rücksicht auf den europäischen Arbeitsmarkt. B. 1878. – F. Jagor (gesammelt)…

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WHITEHEAD, George

WHITEHEAD, George. 1862 — Halton West, North Yorkshire 3.4.1935. Rev. British Anglican Missionary. From Yorkshire. B.A. 1884 University of London. Ordained deacon 1886 and priest 1887 in Mandalay. From 1886 worked in various positions in Burma, then in the Nicobars in 1912-14 and 1916-21. Constructed Latin alphabet for the Car…

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MAN, E. Horace

MAN, Edward Horace. Singapore 1846 — Brighton, Sussex 28.9.1929. British Civil Servant and Ethnographist in India. Son of Captain (future General) Henry Stuart Man and Emma Martha Thompson. From 1869 worked long time in various positions in the penal settlement of Port Blair, Andamans (like his father before him), also…

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GABELENTZ, Georg von der

GABELENTZ, Hans Georg Conon von der. Poschwitz bei Altenburg (Thüringen) 16.3.1840 — Lemnitz (Thüringen) 11.12.1893. German Sinologist. Son of —> H. C. v. d. G. and Henriette von Linsingen. After gymnasium in Altenburg studied law at Jena (or Halle, also lin­guistics). He worked from 1864 as an assistant judge in Dresden, but also continued…

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