JAGER, Herbert de

JAGER, Herbert de. Zwammerdam near Leiden (Dutch Wikipedia Aarlanderveen) 1636 (1637?) — Batavia (Jakarta) 6.1.1694. Dutch Priest and Traveller. Son of a farmer. Studies of theology, of mathematics, botany, astronomy and Oriental languages (under Golius) at Leiden in 1657-62. In service of the Dutch E.I.C. in 1662-94, first in Batavia,…

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JACQUET, Eugène

JACQUET, Eugène-Vincent-Stanislas. Bruxelles 10.5.1811 — Paris 7.7.1838. Belgian Sinologist, Indologist and Oriental Scholar in Paris. Born in a wealthy family. They moved to Paris when he was two. Educated at home by his parents and at Collège Louis le Grand. Soon he became interested in Oriental studies and tried to…

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HALLADE, Madeleine

HALLADE, Madeleine. Colombes near Paris 18.5.1891 — 30.9.1968. Mlle. French Art Historian, Specialist of Gandhāran and Central Asian Art. Educated at Lycée Racine and Cheltenham College in England. In 1919-20 studied painting at École de Beaux-Arts, worked herself as painter. In 1931-39 studies of art history at École du Louvre…

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HAHLWEG, Klaus

HAHLWEG, Klaus. 1921 — 1995. German Buddhist Scholar. During the war student of von Glasenapp at Königsberg. Ph.D. Munich 1954 (under H. Hoffmann). In the early 1980s living in Munich, still interested in Buddhism and Thai. Also knew Tibetan. Publications: Diss. Das Mahāgovinda-Sūtra. Eine vergleichende Analyse der indischen und chinesischen…

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GROSLIER, Bernard-Philippe

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…

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GOLOUBEW, Victor

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.…

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GERINI, Gerolamo Emilio

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…

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FRANKFURTER, Oskar

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…

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FOY, Willy

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…

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FINOT, Louis

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…

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