LISKER, Leigh. Philadelphia, Pa. 7.12.1918 — Ibid. 24.3.2006. U.S. Indologist (Dravidian Linguist). Professor in Philadelphia. Studies at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia: B.A. 1941 in German, M.A. 1946 and Ph.D. 1949 in Linguistics. Taught at University of Pennsylvania: 1948-51 Instructor, 1951-60 Assistant Professor, 1960-64 Associate Professor and from 1964 Professor…
GAEFFKE, Hans Peter Theodor. Breslau 6.12.1927 — Philadelphia 30.3.2005. German Indologist (Hindī scholar) in the U.S.A. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of engineer Albert Gaeffke. School in 1938-44 in Breslau, then military service 1944-45 and time as war prisoner. In 1947-48 studied history and Germanistics at Regensburg Hochschule, from 1948 Linguistics at…
JAMESON, Michael Hamilton. London 15.10.1924 — Stanford 18.8.2004. U.S. Classical Scholar. Born in London where his parents, Raymond D. Jameson and Rose Perel. were visiting from Peking, where his father was Professor of Western Literature. Grew up in Peking and London. A.B. 1942 University of Chicago in Greek. In 1943-46…
HOENIGSWALD, Henry Max (born Heinrich Max Franz Hönigswald). Breslau 17.4.1915 — Haverford, PA 16.6.2003. U.S. (German-born) Linguist (IE and Hindi). Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Professor Richard Hönigswald (1875–1947), a philosopher of Austro-Bohemian Jewish origin, and Gertrud Frunwald (d. 1921). Gymnasium in Breslau and Munich, matriculated 1932. Studied comparative linguistics…
FURBER, Holden. Boston 13.3.1903 — Bedford, MA 19.1.1993. U.S. Historian of Colonial India. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of William Henry Furber (1870–1931) and Mabel Harriet Holden (1869–1903). Educated in Boston area (Brookline High School), graduated 1924 from Harvard. Further studies at Queen’s College, Oxford (B.A. 1925, M.A. 1930). Ph.D. 1929…
WEILER, Royal W. Allentown, PA 16.9.1927 — Philadelphia County ?.1.1987 (when 59). U.S. Indologist. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Fred W. Weiler, Sr. (1902–1951) and Jane Katharine Edwards. Graduated 1945 from Allen High School. Studies at University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1951), Ph.D. there 1956 (under W. N. Brown). Then one…
MURRAY, Donald Shipley. 1916 — 1990. U.S. Statistician apparently interested in South Asia. Studied economics: B.S., 1937; A.M., 1944; Ph. D., 1944 University of Pennsylvania. Professor of Statistics at University of Pennsylvania, emeritus 1980. In 1977-80 Assistant Chairman of Department of South Asia Regional Studies. Publications: ??? Sources: Not in…
SCHWARTZ, Ben (Benjamin). 1905? — 26.12.1981. U.S. IE Linguist and Anatolian Scholar. Studies at New York University: A.B. and M.A. Ph.D. 193? Columbia. In 1956-75 Associate Professor of Classics at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, then retired. Publications: “Prakrit cia”, NIA 6, 1939, 420; articles on IE, Anatolian, etc. – With J. A.…
SENN, Alfred. Blotzheim, Alsace (then Germany) 19.3.1899 — Ashford, CT 9.2.1978. Swiss Linguist of Baltic, German and IE in Lithuania and the U.S.A. Born of Swiss parents in Alsace near Swiss border as the son of a farmer, Alfred Senn and Berta Affolter. School in Goldach and St.Gallen, studied at…
SALYS, Antanas. Reketė, North-West Lithuania 21.7.1902— Philadelphia 31.7.1972. Lithuanian IE and Baltic Linguist, later in the U.S.A. Educated in Telsini. Studies at Kaunas and Leipzig (Trautmann). Ph.D. 1929 Leipzig. In 1930-39 PD of IE at Vytautas University in Kaunas, developed experimental phonetics of Lithuanian. In 1941-44 the first Director of…