KLEUKER, Johann Friedrich. Osterode am Harz 24.10.1749 — Kiel 31.5./1.6.1827. German Protestant theologian. Professor in Kiel. Son of shoemaker Johann Christian Kleuker (1715–1758) and Dorothea Magdalena Rose (1716–1770). From 1770 studied theology, philology and philosophy at Göttingen. Soon befriended with J. G. Herder. From 1778 secondary school principal in Osnabrück.…
HÖLTY, Arnold Karl Konrad. Jembke, dt. Gifhorn, Niedersachsen 11.8.1800 — 2.9.1857. German Theologian. Son of a priest. Studies ar Göttingen. From 1826 Lutheran Pastor in Uelzen (1836), 1838-42 Superintendet in Osterode, then in Lüneburg until 1852. Provost in Ruelzen 1852-57. Married. Publications: Dsjemschid, Feridun, Gustasp, Zoroaster: eine kritisch-historische Untersuchung über die beiden…
FLUEGEL, Maurice. Leipzig 1832 (Wikidata, findagrave says Bucharest 1843, hardly right) — Baltimore 9.2.1911. German Rabbi and Jewish Scholar in the U.S.A. Studies at Leipzig and at Sorbonne, Paris, later also at Bucharest. In 1864 immigrated to the U.S.A., then worked as Rabbi in Mobile, Alabama, in Quincy, Illinois, in…
ECKARD, Friedrich Simon. 1736 — 1812. German. Pastor in Rensefeld (Holstein). Minister in Holstein: in Schönwalde, then in Rensefeld (1789). His Zoroastrian studies were based on Anquetil-Duperron’s work. Married 1765 Friderica Amalia Faber, at least one son. Publications: Ormuzd’s lebendiges Wort an Zoroaster oder Zend-Avesta, in einem Auszug, nebst einer…
EBERHARDT, Paul Friedrich. Strausberg near Berlin 11.12.1879 — Pfarrkesslar bei Kahla, Thüringen 22.8.1923. German Scholar of Religion, Mystic, Poet and Dramatic Author. Studied at Berlin and Erlangen. Ph.D. 1908 Berlin (diss. on Descartes). Worked as journalist and author, several years in Sweden, then in Thüringen. The three works listed…
ALFARIC, Prosper. Livinhac-le-Haut (Aveyron) 21.5.1876 — Paris 28.3.1955. French Historian of Religions. Professor in Strasbourg. Born as the oldest of seven children of a modest, deeply religious catholic viticulturist family, soon ruined by Phylloxera. With the help of local vicar he went to school and then to seminary St.Sulpice in…
KÖNIG, Franz. Warth bei Rabenstein, Lower Austria 3.8.1905 — Vienna 13.3.2004. Austrian Orientalist and Scholar of Religion, Roman Catholic Priest, Cardinal. Son of Franz König (1867–1913) and Maria Fink (1878–1967). Gymnasium in Melk. Studies at Vienna and Rome (under Messsina). Ph.D. 1930 Rome. In 1933 ordained priest in Rome. In…
SMITH, Henry Goodwin. New York City 8.1.1860 — Goshen, Hampshire County, MA 7.8.1940. Rev. U.S. Theologian. Son of Henry Bounton Smith (1815–1877), also a Theologian, and Elizabeth Lee Allen (1817–1898). Graduated 1881 from Amherst College. M.A. 1884 Union Theological Seminary. D.D. 1897 Wabash and Maryville. Presbyterian Pastor in Freehold, NJ,…
GERSHEVITCH, Ilya (Il’ja Arkad‘evič Gerševič). Zürich 24.10.1914 — Cambridge 11.4.2001. Russian Iranian Scholar in the U.K. Professor in Cambridge. Born in Switzerland of Russian parents, Arkadi Gerševič and Mila Mirova, a pianist, who came from Smolensk. They were fleeing the outbreak of WW I as the father was then studying medicine…
GEHRICH, Heinrich Georg. Northeim, Niedersachsen 30.10.1867 — Goslar 29.6.1920. German Protestant Priest interested in Oriental Religions. Pastor in Stellichte (Hannover), later (1914) in Goslar. Married Marie Knoke (1870–1947), at least two sons. Publications: Translated Cumont’s (Die Mysterien des Mitra. Lp. 1903), Pettazzoni’s and Tiele’s works into German (1895/1909). – “Zur Frage…