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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 at Gymnasium ...

• UHLENBECK, Christianus Cornelius

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

• UHLIG, Helmut

  UHLIG, Helmut. Chemnitz 18.5.1922 — Berlin 24.2.1997. German Teacher and Author interested in Buddhist Studies. Studies of philosophy, art history and literature at ...

• 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 Belgrad 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 DE MEZŐ-KÖVESD, 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 the mayor ...

• 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. He printedthe ...

• 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. Joined I.C.S. in 1898. Finally Deputy ...

• 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 18.2.1963. French Army Physician, Naturalist and Explorer. Son of Léon Louis V., Professor of Zoology. Studied medicine at Bordeaux, graduated 1902 and became ...

• VALENTIJN, François

  VALENTIJN, François. Dordrecht 17.4.1666 — the Hague 6.8.1727. Dutch Priest and Naturalist. Son of a school director. Studied theology and philosophy at Leiden and Utrecht. From 1684 spent 16 years as ...

• VALENTINE, William H.

  VALENTINE, William H. 1856 — 1927. British Numismatician. 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. 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 Augusto (de)

  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, Georg Wilhelm V.)

  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 BV-A became Lieutenant-Colonel 1887. But the family had several officers serving in India in the 19th century. One (the same?) Captain BV-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 Numismatician 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. 1938 Utrecht ...

• VENDRYES, Joseph (Jean-Baptiste-Marie)

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

• VENIERE, Alessandro

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

• VENIS, Arthur

  VENIS, Arthur (born A. V. Lazarus). 4.10.1857 — 5.6.1918. British (Scottish) Educator and ...

• 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.

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• 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. Studies at ...

• VEYSSIÈRE DE LACROZE, Mathurin (de La Croze)

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

• 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 Thomas

  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 (lay Antonio Murchio di Bormio). Bormio 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 inspect Catholic ...

• VINSON, Julien

  VINSON, Elie Honoré JulienVIRCHOW, Rudolf

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

• 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 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 1911 expedition ...

• VLIET, Joannes van der

  VLIET, Joannes van der. Reeuwijk 24.4.1847 — Utrecht 17.7.1902. Dutch Classical Scholar ...

• 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 10.4.1958. Dutch Indologist, Specialist of Indian ...

• 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, Johann Christoph 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 (BOISGIRAIS), Constantin-François, comte de

  VOLNEY DE CHASSEBOEUF (BOISGIRAIS), Constantin-FrançoisVORETZSCH, Ernst Arthur. Lucka, Thüringen 13.8.1868 — Colmberg 18.5.1965. German Diplomat and Historian. Studied ...

• 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 ...

• VREESE, Koenrad Stanislaus Jan Marie de

  VREESE, Koenrad Stanislaus Jan Marie deVRIES, Johann Dietrich Ludwig de. Gennep 18.4.1894 — 19??. Dutch Indologist. Son ...

• 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 ...