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  • UHLE, Heinrich

    UHLE, Heinrich. 1842 — 1913. German Indologist. Schoolteacher in Dresden. Studies at Leipzig, i.al. Indology under Brockhaus. Ph.D. Taught ...

  • UHLENBECK, Christianus Cornelius

    UHLENBECK, Christianus Cornelius. Voorburg, South Holland 18.10.1866 — Lugano, Switzerland 12.8.1951 (or 1959?). Dutch Linguist and IE Scholar. Professor in Leiden. ...

  • UHLIG, Helmut

    UHLIG, Helmut. Chemnitz 18.5.1922 — Berlin 24.2.1997. German Teacher and Author interested in Buddhist Studies. Son of post official Georg ...

  • UHLIK, Rade

    UHLIK, Rade. Sarajevo 1.2.1899 — Sarajevo 12.6.1991. Yugoslavian Linguist and Gipsy Scholar. Born in a Lutheran family. Studied Germanistics at Belgrade and worked ...

  • UHTOMSKIJ, Esper Esperovič,

    UHTOMSKIJ, Esper Esperovič, Prince. Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov) 26.8.1861 — Detskoe Selo 26.11.1921. Russian Scholar, Collector, Traveller, Political Thinker, Entrepreneur and Publisher. Son of ...

  • UJFALVY, Charles-Eugène

    ÚJFALVY DE MEZŐ-KÖVESD, Charles-Eugène (Mezőkövesdi Újfalvy Károly Jenő). Vienna 18.5.1842 — Florence 31.1.1904. Hungarian Traveller and Anthropologist of Central ...

  • UNKRIG, Wilhelm Alexander

    UNKRIG, Wilhelm Alexander. Köslin, Pomerania (now Koszalin in Poland) 1883 — Traisa near Darmstadt 24.6.1956. German Mongolian and Lamaist Scholar. Son of a crofter. ...

  • UPHAM, Edward

    UPHAM, Edward. Exeter 1776 — Bath 25.8.1834. British Bookdealer and Orientalist. Born in Exeter, where his father Charles U. was later (1796) the ...

  • UPJOHN, Aaron

    UPJOHN, Aaron. 17?? — 1???. British Printer in India. Arrived at Calcutta in 1785 as ship’s musician (bassoon player). There he became printer and part owner of the Calcutta Chronicle. Bankrupt in 1792. ...

  • URAY, Géza

    URAY, Géza. Budapest 16.8.1921 — 17.7.1991. Hungarian Tibetan Scholar. Professor in Budapest. Reluctantly following his father’s wish he enrolled the Military ...

  • USBORNE, Charles Frederick

    USBORNE, Charles Frederick. London 18.2.1874 — 6.11.1919. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Thomas U. and Agnes Elizabeth Gibbs. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford. Rejected by army because of ...

  • UXBAND, F. E., nom-de-plume of —> Vilmos Hevesy
    UXBAND, F. E., nom-de-plume of —> Vilmos Hevesy

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  • VAILLANT, Louis

    VAILLANT, Louis Auguste André Marie. Paris 26.11.1876 — Arras (Pas-de-Calais) 18.2.1963. French Army Physician, Naturalist and Explorer. Son of Léon Louis V., Professor of Zoology, and Henriette Jeanne Hovius. Studied medicine ...

  • VALENTIJN, François

    VALENTIJN, François (Franciscus). Dordrecht 17.4.1666 — the Hague 6.8.1727. Dutch Priest and Naturalist. Son of school director Abraham V. and Maria Rijsbergen. Studied theology and philosophy at Leiden and Utrecht. ...

  • VALENTINE, William H.

    VALENTINE, William H. 1856 — 1927. British Numismatist. Apparently a layman without academic or official position.

    Publications: The Copper Coins of India. 1. Muhammadan Coins. 271 p. 2. The Panjab and Contiguous Native ...

  • VALLAURI, Mario

    VALLAURI, Mario. Viareggio (Lucca) 31.7.1887 — Dronero (Cuneo) 19.9.1964. Italian Indologist. Professor in Turin. Born in an old Piemontese family, studied ...

  • VALTONEN, Pertti

    VALTONEN, Pertti. 1933 — 1999. Finnish Gipsy Scholar. Studies of Indology, etc. at Helsinki. M.A. ...

  • VALVANNE, Hugo

    VALVANNE, Hugo (until 1906 H. Wegelius). Pietarsaari 18.7.1894 — Funen, Denmark 25.7.1961. Finnish Student ...

  • VAMBÉRY, Arminiusz (Hermann)

    VAMBÉRY, Ármin (Arminius).VANDEN BERGHE, Louis

    VANDEN BERGHE, Louis. Oostnieuwkerke, West Flanders 24.12.1923 — Ghent 17.9.1993. Belgian Archaeologist and Iranian ...

  • VANÍČEK, Alois

    VANÍČEK, Alois. Prague 21.6.1825 — Prague 9.5.1883. Czech IE Scholar. Son of a teacher. ...

  • VANSITTART, Henry

    VANSITTART, Henry. Bloomsbury, Middlesex 3.6.1732 — on sea 1770. British Civil Servant in India. ...

  • VARENNE, Jean

    VARENNE, Jean. Marseille 12.6.1926 — Paris 12.7.1997. French Indologist. Professor in Aix-en-Provence. 

  • VARTHEMA, Ludovico di

    VARTHEMA, Ludovico di. Bologna 1470? — Rome before June 1517. Italian Traveller in India. ...

  • VASCONCELOS (DE) ABREU, Guilherme

    VASCONCELOS (DE) ABREU, Guilherme Augusto (de). Coimbra 20.5.1842 — Lisbon 1.2.1907. Portuguese ...

  • VASIL’EV, Aleksej Ivanovič

    VASIL’EV, Aleksej Ivanovič. St.Petersburg 1903 — Leningrad 6.11.1936.

  • VASIL’EV, Vasilij Pavlovič (Wassilieff)

    VASIL’EV, Vasilij Pavlovič (Wassilieff). Nižni-Novgorod 20.2.(4.3.)1818 — St.Petersburg 27.4.1900. Russian Sinologist and Buddhist ...

  • VASMER, Rihard Vil’gelm (Georg Rihardovič)

    VASMER, Rihard Vil’gelm (Georg Rihardovič, Georg Wilhelm V.). St.Petersburg 9/21.10.1888 — Taškent 22.2.1938.Russian Numismatist and Oriental Scholar. Born in a Lutheran family of German background, son of Richard Julius Friedrich Vasmer ...

  • VASSALINI, Ida

    VASSALINI, Ida. Verona 1.11.1891 — Milano 21.12.1953. Italian Poet and Translator. Daughter of Bartolomeo V. ...

  • VÄTH, Alfons

    VÄTH, Alfons. Werbachhausen, Kr. Main-Tauber 15.3.1874 — Bonn 12.5.1937. S.J. German Missionary and Indian Historian. Working in Bombay in 1899-1903 and 1910-16. ...

  • VAUGHAN-ARBUCKLE, Benjamin

    VAUGHAN-ARBUCKLE, Benjamin. 18?? — 19??. One B.V.-A. became Lieutenant-Colonel 1887. But the family had several officers serving in India in the 19th century. One (the same?) Captain B.V.-A., son of General ...

  • VAUGHAN, John Luther

    VAUGHAN, John Luther. Leicester St. Martin 6.3.1820 — Tunbridge, Kent 2.1.1911. Sir. British Colonial ...

  • VAUX, William Sandys Wright

    VAUX, William Sandys Wright. Oxford 28.2.1818 — London 21.6.1885. British Numismatist and Antiquarian. Son of Rev. William Vaux, a ...

  • VELJAČIĆ, Čedomil (Ñāṇajīvaka)

    VELJAČIĆ, Čedomil (Ñāṇajīvaka). Zagreb 18.6.1915 — California 28.12.1997. Croatian Classical Scholar, Philosopher, ...

  • VELZE, Jacob Antoon van

    VELZE, Jacob Antoon van. Hilversum 1902/03— 1984. Dutch Student of Indology. Son of Jacob van V. and Adriana Tober. Studied Classics at Utrecht, also Sanskrit under Caland. In 1930 teacher. Ph.D. ...

  • VENDRYES, Joseph

    VENDRYES, Joseph (Jean-Baptiste-Marie). Paris 13.1.1875 — Paris 30.1.1960. French IE, Celtic and General Linguist. ...

  • VENIERO, Alessandro

    VENIERO, Alessandro. 18?? — 19??. Italian Philologist. Possibly in Sicily.

  • VENIS, Arthur

    VENIS, Arthur (born Arthur Venis Lazarus). 4.10.1857 — 5.6.1918. British (Scottish) Educator ...

  • VENTURA, Giovanni

    VENTURA, Giovanni (Jean-Baptiste V., originally Rubino ben Torah). Finale near Modena 25.5.1794 — Lardenne ...

  • VÉQUAUD, Yves

    VÉQUAUD, Yves. Paris 5.9.1938 — Villiers-Saint-Denis (Aisne) 19.8.2000. French Anthropologist and Author.

    Publications: L’art de Mithila. 127 p. ill. 1975; The Women Painters of Mithila. 102 p. ill. L. 1977.

    – Bénarès. 108 ...

  • VERNER, Karl

    VERNER, Karl Adolph. Aarhus 7.3.1846 — Copenhagen 5.11.1896. Danish Linguist and Phonetician. Professor in ...

  • VÉRTESY, Desző

    VÉRTESY, Desző. Pásztó 24.6.1881 — Budapest 12.7.1917. Hungarian Greek and Sanskrit Philologist.

  • VERWEY, Anthony Hendrik Nicolaas

    VERWEY, Anthony Hendrik Nicolaas. ’s-Gravenhage 14.4.1918 — Leiden 7.1.2001. Dutch Anthropologist specialized in India and Tibet. Studied Law and Indology at Amsterdam and Leiden. In 1947-81 working in Ethnological ...

  • VEYSSIÈRE DE LACROZE, Mathurin

    VEYSSIÈRE DE LACROZE, Mathurin (M. V. de La Croze). Nantes 4.12.1661 — Berlin 21.5.1739. ...

  • VEZDIN, Philip

    VEZDIN, Philip —> PAULINUS A SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO.

  • VIENNOT, Odette

    VIENNOT, Odette. 23.1.1910 — 18.11.1992. French Indologist and Art Historian. Born in ...

  • VIGNE, Godfrey

    VIGNE, Godfrey Thomas. Walthamstown, Essex 1.9.1801 — Woosford, Essex 12.7.1863. British Traveller in India ...

  • VILLE, Frans de

    VILLE, Frans de. 1??? — 19??. Belgian Schoolteacher interested in Indology. Perhaps the same ...

  • VINCENZI, Carlo

    VINCENZI, Carlo. 18?? — 19??. Italian interested in Sanskrit.

    VINCENZO MARIA DI SANTA CATERINA DA SIENA

    VINCENZO MARIA DI SANTA CATERINA DA SIENA (lay Antonio Murchio di Bormio). Bormio, Lombardy 1626 — Rome 5.11.1679. Father. Italian Carmelite, Procurator of his order. In 1656 sent by Pope Alexander VII and Propaganda Fide to India to ...

  • VINOGRADOV, Viktor Sergeevič

    VINOGRADOV, Viktor Sergeevič. Istik, Kalužskaja gub. 24.2.(8.3.)1895 — Moscow 5.10.1992. Russian Musicologist. Son of a priest. In 1921 joined the Communist Party. In 1929 graduated from Moscow ...

  • VINSON, Julien

    VINSON, Elie Honoré JulienVIRCHOW, Rudolf

    VIRCHOW, Rudolf. Schivelbein, Pomerania (now Świdwin in Poland) 13.10.1821 — Berlin 5.9.1902. German Anatomist ...

  • VIRIEUX, Eugène

    VIRIEUX, Eugène. 1861 — 31.10.1923. Swiss Priest. Lic.théol. Ordained 1884. Pastor in Rougemont from 1885, in Champvent 1886, again in Rougemont 1889 and from 1894 until death ...

  • VIVIEN DE SAINT-MARTIN, Louis

    VIVIEN DE SAINT-MARTIN, Louis. Saint-Martin-de-Fontenay (Calvados) 22.5.1802 — Paris 3.1.1897. French Scholar of Historical ...

  • VIZEL’, Oskar Èmil’evič.

    VIZEL’, Oskar Èmil’evič. St.Petersburg 1895 — 19??. VLADIMIRCOV, Boris Jakovlevič

    VLADIMIRCOV, Boris Jakovlevič. Kaluga 8.(20.)7.1884 — Siverskij near Leningrad 17.8.1931. Russian Mongolian and Buddhist Scholar. Academician in St.Petersburg. Son of an engineer. Graduated 1909 at St.Petersburg (Sino-Manchu section), Magistr 1911. In ...

  • VLIET, Joannes van der

    VLIET, Joannes van der. Reeuwijk, South Holland 24.4.1847 — Utrecht 17.7.1902. Dutch ...

  • VODSKOV, Hans Sofus

    VODSKOV, Hans Sofus (born Hans Sophus Wodschou). Limensgade, Åker, Bornholm 16.9.1846 — Copenhagen 16.3.1910. ...

  • VOGEL, Jean-Philippe

    VOGEL, Jean-Philippe. ’s-Gravenhage 9.1.1871 — Oegstgeest near Leiden 10.4.1958. Dutch Indologist, Specialist ...

  • VOGT, Hans Kamstrup

    VOGT, Hans Kamstrup. Fredrikstad, Norway 1.6.1903 — Oslo 25.9.1986. Norwegian Linguist. Professor in Oslo. ...

  • VOIGT, Wolfgang

    VOIGT, Wolfgang. Friedenau/Berlin 17.7.1911 — Berlin 30.8.1982. German Indologist. Editor of the ...

  • VOLCK, Wilhelm

    VOLCK, Johann Christoph Wilhelm. Nürnberg 18.11.1835 — Rostock 29.5.1904. German Oriental Scholar in Estonia. ...

  • VOLKOVA, Oktjabrina Fedorovna

    VOLKOVA, Oktjabrina Fedorovna. Leningrad 23.1.1926 — 22.10.1988. Russian Indologist, specialist of Buddhist ...

  • VOLNEY DE CHASSEBOEUF, François, comte de

    VOLNEY DE CHASSEBOEUF (BOISGIRAIS), Constantin-FrançoisVORETZSCH, Ernst Arthur

    VORETZSCH, Ernst Arthur. Lucka, Thüringen 13.8.1868 — Colmberg, Kr. Ansbach 18.5.1965. German Diplomat and ...

  • VOROB’EV-DESJATOVSKIJ, Vladimir Svjatoslavovič

    VOROB’EV-DESJATOVSKIJ, Vladimir Svjatoslavovič. Tver 3.10.1927 — Leningrad 2.7.1956. Russian Indologist. Son of an ...

  • VOSS, Erich von

    VOSS, Erich von. Fellin (Viljandi, Estonia) 29.11.(11.12.)1880 — Viechtach (Bavaria) 15.12.1917. Baltic German Student ...

  • VOST, William

    VOST, William. ?.11.1861 — London 1947.  British (Scottish) Army Physician in India. Son of Henry Vost and Isobel Charlotte Broad. Medical studies at Glasgow. From 1887 served in North India. Surgeon-Captain ...

  • VOSTRIKOV, Andrej Ivanovič

    VOSTRIKOV, Andrej Ivanovič. Agarevka (Ogarevka) village in Atkarskij uezd, Saratov gub. 10.(23.)10.1902 ...

  • VOTÝPKA, Bedřich

    VOTÝPKA, Bedřich. Neveklov 28.2.1865 — Mirotice u Písku 28.6.1940. Czech Teacher interested in Indology. ...

  • VOYSEY, Henry Wesley

    VOYSEY, Henry Wesley. Salisbury, Wiltshire 16.10.1791 — Sulkea Ghat 19.4.1824. British Physician, Geologist and Mineralogits in India. Son of Baptist minister Henry V. and Ann Maria Annesley Ellison. Studied medicine in London ...

  • VREEDE-DE STUERS, Cora

    VREEDE-DE STUERS, Cora (née Suzanne Coralie Lucipara de Stuers). Bodegraven 29.11.1909 — Baarn, prov. Utrecht 11.11.2002. Dutch Sociologist. Daughter of Eugène de Stuers, director of machine ...

  • VREESE, Koenrad de

    VREESE, Koenrad Stanislaus Jan Marie deVRIES, Johann Dietrich Ludwig de

    VRIES, Johann Dietrich Ludwig de. Gennep, Limburg 18.4.1894 — 19??. Dutch Indologist. ...

  • VULLERS, Johann August

    VULLERS, Johann August. Bonn 23.10.1803 — Bonn 21.1.1880. German Oriental (Arabic and ...

  • VYHNIS, Čeněk (Vincenz)

    VYHNIS, Čeněk (Vincenz). Kostelec nad Labem 8.10.1842 — Prague 23.3.1897. Czech Schoolteacher interested in ...

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