GROSLIER, Bernard-Philippe. Phnom Penh 10.5.1926 — Paris 29.5.1986. French Archaeologist and Historian of South-East Asia. A specialist of Cambodia, but also wrote on Gandhāra art (1951). Son of Georges Groslier (1887–1945), the founder and first curator of the Museum of Phnom Penh, and Suzanne Cecile Poujade. Born in Cambodia he…
GOLOUBEW, Victor (Viktor Viktorovič Golubev). St.Petersburg 12.2.1878 — Hanoi 19.4.1945. Russian Art Historian in France. Born in a Crimean aristocratic family, son of engineer Viktor Fëdorovič Golubev (1842–1903) and Anna Petrovna Losev. In 1896-1900 studies of engineering in St.Petersburg, but was also led to history and archaeology by M. I.…
GERINI, Gerolamo Emilio. Cisano sul Neva (Albenga), prov. Savona 10.3.1860 — Turin 11.10.1913. Italian Officer and South-East Asian Scholar in Thailand. Colonel. Son of Carlo Gerini, Professor of Oenology in Turin, and Veronica Rosso. After Military Academy of Modena he served in Italian army 1879-81. From 1881 twentyfive years in…
FRANKFURTER, Oskar. Hamburg 23.2.1851 — Hamburg 1.10.1922. German South-East Asian and Pāli Scholar. Son of Rabbi Naphtali Frankfurter (1810–1860) and his wife Amalie (1810–1873). After Johanneum in Hamburg studied i.al. Indology at Berlin and Göttingen. Ph.D. Göttingen 1874 (diss. on Greek). In Oxford collaborated with Childers and became acquainted with…
FOY, Willy Karl Max Emil. Leipzig 27.11.1873 — 1.3.1929. German Indologist and Ethnologist. Professor in Cologne. After school in Leipzig, Dresden and Köln studied from 1892 philology at Leipzig (Windisch, Brugmann). Ph.D. 1895 Leipzig. After a while as Assistant in Dresden Ethnographic Museum became in 1901 the first director of…
FINOT, Louis. Bar-sur-Aube (Aube) 20.7.1864 — Toulon (Var) 16.5.1935. French Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of Bernardin-Florentin Finot, a notary, and Marie Valentine Doré. After school in Troyes studies of law and economic history in Paris (licence). From 1890 employed in Bibliothèque Nationale as a stagiaire, from 1892 as…
FAVRE, Pierre Étienne Lazare. Janville (Eure-et-Loir) 12.2.1812 — Paris 17.3.1887. Abbé. French Missionary and South-East Asian (Malay) Scholar. Ordained 1838 in Orléans, 1842 joined Missions étrangères in Paris and sailed to Penang. In 1845-50 worked in Malacca, then in South America. Because of illness returned to France in 1854, 1855-57…
DUPONT, Pierre. Paris 3.12.1908 — Bangkok 16.10.1955 (Auboyer: 31.12.1908–18.10.1955). French Archaeologist of South-East Asia (especially Cambodia). Professor in Paris. Studies of Indology, South-East Asian studies, art and archaeology in Paris under Lévi, Foucher, Picard and Stern, at É.P.H.É., Institut d’éthnologie and École du Louvre. Worked in Musée Guimet, in French…
DEYDIER, Henri. 1922 — near Luang Prabang 4.12.1954. French Archaeologist and Art Historian. Began studies under rzyluski and Maspéro, from 1940 active in resistance. From 1944 renewed studies of Indology (under Foucher) and South-East and East Asian studies (Maspéro) in Paris, diplom of É.P.H.É. in 1950. During WW II active…
DENIS, Eugène. Corps-Nuds, Brittany 2.2.1921 — Bangkok 11.12.1986. S.J. Father. French Missionary and Pāli Scholar in Thailand. After seminary in Rennes became Jesuit novice in Laval. In 1948 sent to China, expulsed by communists in 1951. Ordained priest 1952 in Lyon. In 1955 to Thailand, taught at Bangkok University. Ph.D.…