VARENNE, Jean Albert. Marseille 12.6.1926 — Paris 12.7.1997. French Indologist. Professor in Aix-en-Provence and Lyon. After school (Lycée Thiers) in Marseille studies at Aix-en-Provence and Paris. Ph.D. 1959 Paris (É.P.H.É. IV section). In 1959-60 taught French at Poona University, then worked at E.F.E.O., in Pondicherry and Pune. Also visited Cambodia.…
ROMER, John. Ancroft, co. Durham 1780 (Wikipedia. c. 1770) — 22.8.1858. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert Romer and Frances Marshall (died before May 1789). In 1816/23 he was Government Agent in Surat. Member of the Council in Bombay, acted as Governor of Bombay for a brief period…
PANGBORN, Cyrus Ransom. Mankato, Jewell County, Kansas 6.2.1916 — New Brunswick, NJ 18.11.1989. U.S. Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in New Brunswick. Son of farmer Halsey Melvin Pangborn (1888–1967) and Sue Naomi Peets. Studied at Kansas Wesleyan (B.A. 1937), Yale Divinity School (B.D. 1940) and Columbia University (M.Ph. 1950). Ph.D.…
MENASCE, Jean de (born Jean André Moise de Menasce). Alexandria, Egypt 24.12.1902 — Paris 24.11.1973. Father. French Iranian Scholar. From his mother inherited French citizenship, father (banker, Baron Félix de Menasce) belonged to a Jewish family which had migrated from Spain to Egypt around 1500. Educated at French school in Alexandria,…
MAKOVEL’SKIJ, Aleksandr Osipovič. Grodno (Hrodna in Belarus) 10(22).8.1884 — Baku 16.12.1969. Russian Iranian Scholar in Azerbaijan. Son of an official, Osip Konstantinovič Makovel’skij, and Elena Osipovna, educated in Grodno. Graduated 1907 from Kazan University (Ph.D.), Dr. of Science 1921 Kazan. Dr. filos. nauk 1946. In 1909-20 taught higher female classes…
SPOONER, Elizabeth Colton (née Elizabeth Swester Colton). 7.8.1851 — Oakland, Calif. 1927. U.S. Oriental Scholar. From Easthampton, Mass., daughter of Rev. Aaron Merrick Colton (1809–1895) and Zerviah Elizabeth Good (d. 1858). Studied Sanskrit at Harvard under Lanman. In 1911 married her former co-student —> D. B. Spooner (1879–1925) and lived…
SPOONER, David Brainerd. Vermon, Vermont 7.2.1879 — Agra 30.1.1925. U.S. Indologist and Archaeologist in India. Son of elder D. Br. Spooner (1830–1890) and Mary Morton. Studied Classics at Stanford University in California. After graduation (B.A. 1899) he went to Japan and studied Sanskrit at Imperial University, then at Sanskrit College…
SPIEGEL, Ludwig Friedrich Ernst (1880 von Sp.). Kitzingen near Würzburg 11.7.1820 — Munich 15.12.1905. German Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Erlangen. N.D.B. does not know the first names of his parents, but his father was a Rentamtmann living in 1759–1830, mother née Dorsch. Matriculated from Ansbach, began 1839 studies of theology…
SÖDERBLOM, Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan). Trönö, Hälsingland 15.1.1866 — Uppsala 12.7.1931. Swedish Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Berlin, then Archbishop of Sweden (Uppsala). Son of vicar Jonas Söderblom (1823–1901) and Nikolina Sophie Blume (of Denmark), matriculated from Hudiksvall. From 1883 studies at Uppsala (fil.kand. 1886, teol.kand. 1892).…
SCHEFTELOWITZ, Isidor Isaac. Sandersleben, Anhalt 1.5.1875 — Oxford 17/18.12.1934. German (Jewish) Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor and Rabbi in Köln. Son of Benjamin Scheftelowitz (1848–1918, a rabbi and teacher) and Jenny Yohana Epstein (1849–1909). After school in Königsberg worked in trade, from 1897 studies at Königsberg and Berlin. Ph.D. 1901 Königsberg (under…