WAYMAN, Alex. Chicago 11.1.1921 — New York 22.9.2004. U.S. Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in New York. During WW II served in the army, over three years in the Philippines, Okinawa, and Australia (also studies at University of Queensland). Studied Mathematics at U.C.L.A.: B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949. Then from 1952…
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…
WILLIAMS, William Holme. 18?? – 19??. U.S. Classical and Oriental Scholar. A.B. 1876 University of Wisconsin. From 1879 Instructor and 1883 Assistant Professor of Greek, 1889 Professor of Hebrew and Sanskrit at University of Wisconsin in Madison, started Sanskrit teaching there. From 1892 Professor of Semitic Languages and Hellenistic Greek…
MOORE, Robert Ripley. Guinea, West Africa 9.4.1933 — Mussoorie Hills 25.5.1966. U.S. South Asian Linguist. Son of missionary parents. B.A. 1956 in history and philosophy at Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota. M.A. and Ph.D. 1965 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, soon Assistant Professor of Indo-Aryan Linguistics in the Department of…
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…
ROBINSON, Richard H. Carstairs, Alberta 21.6.1926 — Madison 6.8.1970. Canadian Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Madison. Son of a farmer, of Scottish-Irish ancestry. Educated in Carstairs, learned Chinese from a Chinese friend. In 1944-47 studies of economics, French and German at University of Alberta (B.A. 1947), then Chinese,…
FOWLER, Alexander Murray. Claremont, Wimberg dt., Cape of Good Hope, South Africa 23.3.1905 — Madison, Wisc. 12.2.1999. U.S. Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Madison. Son of Alexander Duguid F. (1864–1911) and Catherine Milne Walker (1865–1916). Studies at University of Minnesota (A.B. 1927) and University of Oregon (A.B. 1929). In 1929-30…
DILLON, Myles. Dublin 11.4.1900 — Dublin 18.6.1972. Irish Indologist and Linguist, partly in the U.S.A. Professor in Dublin, etc. Son of the well-known politician and freedom fighter John D. (1851–1927) and Elizabeth Mathew. Educated in Dublin and Wexford, then studies at University College (National University of Ireland), B.A. 1921, M.A.…