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WAAG, Anatol. Eletz, Russia 24.11.1906 — Zagreb 19??. Russian (German) Linguist and Iranian Scholar. From 1926 studies in Germany, never returned to Soviet ...

WAALS, Henrik Gerardus van der. Leiden 29.11.18?? — Laren 1.8.1931. Dutch Schoolteacher interested in Indology, Translator of Indian classics into Dutch. ...

WACKERNAGEL, Jacob. Basel 11.12.1853 — Basel 22.5.1938. Swiss IE Linguist, Greek and Sanskrit Scholar. Professor in Göttingen and Basel. Son of Wilhelm W. (1806–68), a ...

WADDELL, Lawrence Austine. Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire 29.5.1854 — 20.9.1938. British (Scots) Physician and Tibetan ...

WAGENER, Auguste. Roermund; Netherlands 8.6.1829 — Gand (Ghent) 14.5.1896. Belgian Classical Philologist. Professor in Ghent. Born in the Netherlands, son of a teacher ...

WAGNER, Reinhard. 1??? — 19??. German Specialist of Bengali. Dr. Schoolteacher (Studienrat). As Docent taught Bengali at Seminar für Orient Sprachen in Berlin ...

WAIT, William Henry. McConnell, Illinois 1854? — Ann Arbor 28.2.1939. U.S. Linguist and Germanist. Son of Nelson W. and Mary Catherine Root. Graduated B.A. 1879 ...

WALDE, Alois. Innsbruck 30.11.1869 — Innsbruck 3.10.1924. Austrian IE and Classical Scholar. Ph.D. 1894 Innsbruck. PD there 1895 and eo. Professor 1904-09, In ...

WALDSCHMIDT, Ernst. Lünen/Westfalen 15.7.1897 — Göttingen 25.2.1985. German Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. After military service in navy during ...

WALHOUSE, Moreton John. 1821 — 1913. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Archaeology and Folklore. Served in Madras ...

WÄLIKANGAS, Eino (until 1906 Buddén). Savonlinna 11.10.1889 — Helsinki 4.3.1960. Finnish Student of Indology and Diplomatist. Son of Emil Johannes B., a teacher, ...

WALLENIUS, Ivar Ulrik. Akaa 30.1.1793 — Helsinki 23.5.1874. Finnish Orientalist (originally Arabic Scholar). Son of a minister, Johan W. (1758-1829), school (from 1804) ...

WALLESER, Max Gebhard Lebrecht. Mannheim 18.6.1874 — Wiesloch (Baden) 15.4.1954. German Indologist, specialist of Buddhism. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of a ...

WALLICH, Nathanael (born as Nathan Wulff W.). Copenhagen 28.1.1786 — London 28.4.1854. Danish Physician and Botanist in India. Son of a Jewish merchant ...

WALLIS, Henry White. Stockwell near London 1861 — Cambridge 18.7.1887. British Indologist. Son of Rev. Joseph W. and Albina Elworthy. Probably studied at ...

WALSH, Ernest Herbert Cooper. Derbyshire ...

WALSHE, Maurice O’Connell. London 22.12.1911 — 18.4.1998. British Germanist and Bauddha. Studied at University College, London, and at the univer­sities of ...

WALTER, Hermann. 1863 — 1???. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1893 München.

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WALTHER, Christoph Theodosius. Schildberg in Neumark (now in Poland) 20.12.1699 — Dresden 29.4.1741. German Missionary and Precursor of Indology in India. ...

WARD, William. Derby 20.10.1769 — Serampur 7.3.1823. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in India and Precursor of Indology. Son of John W., ...

WARE, James Ronald. 1901 — 19??. U.S. Buddhist Scholar. Teacher of Latin. Studies of Indology (and evidently Classics) at University of ...

WARNER, Langdon. Cambridge, Mass. 1.8.1881 — ibid. 9.7.1955. U.S. Art Historian and Central Asian Explorer. Son of Joseph B. W. and Margret W. Storer. ...

WARREN, Henry Clarke. Boston MA. 18.11.1854 — Cambridge MA 2/3.1.1899. U.S. Indologist (Buddhist Scholar). Son of Samuel Denis W., a paper ...

WARREN, Herbert. 1866 — 1954. British Promoter of Jainism. Studied under Virchand Gandhi (1864–1901) and adopted Jainism, his books are based on Gandhi’s ...

WARREN, Sybrandus (Sieb) Johannes. Dokkum 19.8.1847 — 3.1.1910. Dutch Indologist and Classical Philologist. In 1864-71 studied at Leiden Classics and Sanskrit, ...

WARREN, William Fairfield. Williamsburg MA 13.3.1833 — 7.12.1929. U.S. Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Episcopal priest. Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown and ...

WASSILIEFF —> VASIL’EV, Vasilij Pavlovič.

WASSON, Robert Gordon. Great Falls, Montana 22.9.1898 — Danbury CT 26.12.1986. U.S. Ethnomycologist. For a while worked for C.I.A. ...

WATERHOUSE, James. London 24.7.1842 — Eltham 28.9.1922. British Colonial Officer and Photographer in India. Son of a solicitor, educated at King’s College and ...

WATHEN, William Henry. 17?? — 18??. British Civil Servant in India. In Bombay as early as 1810. In the 1820s and early 1830s ...

WATSON, John Whaley. 1838 — 1889. British Colonial Officer in India, interested in Archaeology and History. Served in Bombay Staff Corps. In the ...

WATT, George. Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire 24.4.1851 — Lockerbie 2.4.1930. Sir. British (Scots) Physician and Scientist in India. Son of John W., educated at ...

WATTERS, Thomas. Newtownards, County Down, Ireland 9.2.1840 — Ealing (London) 10.1.1901. British Sinologist. Son of a Presbyterian minister. From 1857 studies at Queen’s ...

WAYLAND, Edward James. London 23.1.1888 — Ramsgate, Kent 11.7.1966. British Geologist and Civil Servant in Ceylon. Son of Edward W. and Emily Street, ...

WEBER, Albrecht Friedrich. Breslau 17.2.1825 — Berlin 30.11.1901. German Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of Benedikt Weber, a Professor of Economics. ...

WEBSTER, William Frederick. London 15.7.1855 — London 10.3.1929. British Lawyer and Indologist. Son of William Thomas W. Attended the City School ...

WECKER, Otto. 18?? — 19??. German Indologist and Classical Scholar. Student of Garbe. Ph.D. 1905 Tübingen. Then teacher in Tübingen (1909) ...

WECKERLING, Adolf. 1??? — 1???. German Physician and Poet. D.med. In the late 1920s living in Giessen.

WEIBGEN, Günther. 190? — 194?. German Indologist. Studied at Berlin under Lüders. He was too early employed in Berlin library (succeeding ...

WEIDERT, Alfons Klaus. 21.3.1943 — Bangkok (?) 24.7.1988. German Tibeto-Burman Linguist. Ph.D. In 1981-84 Chief-Supervisor of the German-Nepalese Linguistic Survey of Nepal field-project.

WEIGLE, Gottfried Hartmann. Esslingen-Zell ?.7.1816 — Mangalore 7.1.1855. German Missionary in India, member of Basel Mission. Characterized as a linguist. Son of a ...

WEIHRICH, Franz. 1845 — 19??. German Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1869. Perhaps the same as the Patristic Scholar FW (born 1845). In ...

WEILER, Royal W. Allentown 1928? — Philadelphia County ?.1.1987 (when 59). U.S. Indologist. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Fred W. Sr. ...

WEINFURTER, Karel. Jičin 27.5.1867 — Prague 14.3.1942. Czech Author and Translator. A Christian mystic interested in Yoga.

WEISGERBER, Johann Leo. Metz 25.2.1899 — Bonn 8.8.1985. German (of Lorraine) Linguist and Celtologist. Participated in WW I. Ph.D. ...

WEISSBACH, Franz Heinrich. Chemnitz 25.11.1865 — Markkleeberg 20.2.1944. German Assyriologist. Librarian in Leipzig. Son of a hat maker. From 1885 studies ...

WELDEN, Ellwood Austin. 1883 — 19??. U.S. Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1906 University pf Pennsylvania. After the WW I apparently working ...

WELLER, Friedrich. Markneukirchen 22.7.1889 — Leipzig 19.11.1980 (or 1981). German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. The only child of Friedrich Wilhelm W. ...

WELLER, Hermann (nom-de-plume Hans Lindach). Schwäbisch-Gmünd 4.2.1878 — Tübingen 9.12.1956. German Indologist and Poet. Born in a Catholic family, lost early ...

WELLSTED, Thomas Arthur. 1904 — 1989. Britishman in India. Manager of mine in Central India (Madhya Pradesh). In 1933 surveyed the remains of ...

WENDEL, François-Xavier. 1732? — Lakhnau 20.3.1803. Father. German Jesuit Missionary in India. Very little is known of his life. He arrived at India ...

WENGER, John. near Bern 31.8.1811 — Calcutta 20.8.1880. Rev. Swiss Missionary in India. Dr. From 1839 worked in Calcutta for Baptist Mission. Married.

WENNERBERG, Claes. 1939? — ?.7.1996, when 57. Swedish Indologist. Studies in Gothenburg under Liebert. Ph.D. 1981 Göteborg. Docent and half-time Universitets­lektor ...

WENZEL, Heinrich Christian Ferdinand. Mainz 7.6.1855 — London 16.6. 1893. German Indologist and Tibetan Scholar in England. Son of a physician, ...

WEÖRES, Sándor. Szombathely 22.6.1913 — 22.1.1989. Hungarian Poet. Published his first poems as a teenager. ...

WESDIN, Ph. —> PAULINUS A SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO.

WESENDONK, Otto-Günther von. Berlin 3.10.1885 — Berlin 11.7.1933. German Diplomat and Iranian Scholar. His father, Karl v. W., was knighted in ...

WESSELSKI, Albert. Vienna 3.9.1871 — Prague 2.2.1939. Austrian Folklorist in Czechoslovakia. Studied philosophy, but switched to engineering. In 1902-06 worked in ...

WEST, Arthur A. 18?? — 19??. Britishman, younger brother of —> E. W. West, whom he assisted in his epigraphical studies. Probably belonged to ...

WEST, Edward William. London 2.5.1824 — Watford 4.5.1905. British Indologist and Iranian Scholar in India. Born in a family of architects ...

WEST, Hans. Messinge, Fyn 6.7.1758 — Kassel 6.7.1811. Danish Scholar interested in India. Son of a minister, educated at Odense school. From 1796 ...

WEST, Raymond. County Kerry 18.9.1832 — 8.9.1912. Sir. Irish (of English background) Civil Servant in India. “Son of Frederick West, educated at Queen’s ...

WESTERGAARD, Niels Ludvig. Copenhagen 27.10.1815 — Copenhagen 9.9.1878. Danish Indologist and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of a master carpenter. ...

WESTMACOTT, Edward Vesey. Chastleton, Oxford 1839 — 1911. Britishman in India, in I.C.S. in Bengal. B.A. Oxford. Married.

WESTMACOTT, G. E. 180? — Kabul 23.11.1841, when 35. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of G.W. Captain 1833, then Assistant to the ...

WESTPHAL-HELLBUSCH, Sigrid. Rendsburg 10.6.1915 — Oldenburg 1.2.1984. German Anthropologist. Professor in Berlin. Grew up in Berlin. From 1935 studied Anthropology, Geography and Psychology ...

WEYRAUCH, August Heinrich von. Riga 30.4.1788 — Dresden 8.3.1865. German (of Livonia) Poet (nom-de-plume Heinrich von der Myrrhen) and ...

WHATMOUGH, Joshua. Rochdale, Lancashire 30.6.1897 — Winchester, MA 25.4.1964. British IE Linguist in the ...

WHEELER, Benjamin Ide. Randolph, Mass. 15.7.1854 — Vienna, Austria 3.5.1927. U.S. Classical and IE ...

WHEELER, James Talboys. Oxford ...

WHEELER, Sir Mortimer (Robert Eric Mortimer; “Ric”). Glasgow 10.9.1890 — Surrey 22.7.1976. ...

WHITEHEAD, George. 1862 — 19??. Rev. British Anglican Missionary. B.A. 1884 University of London. ...

WHITEHEAD, Henry. Brighton 19.12.1853 — Reading 14.4.1947. British Missionary Scholar. Sin of Rev. Alfred ...

WHITEHEAD, Richard Bertram. Liverpool 6.11.1879 — Cambridge 4.3. 1967. British Numismatist. Son ...

WHITLEY, Jabez Cornelius. London 20.1.1837 — Darjeeling 13/18.10.1904. Right Rev. British Missionary in India. ...

WHITNEY, William Dwight. Nothampton, Mass. 9.2.1827 — New Haven, Conn. 7/8.6. 1894. ...

WIDENGREN, Geo. Stockholm 24.4.1907 — Stockholm 28.1.1996. Swedish Scholar of Comparative Religion ...

WIEDEMANN, Oskar. Kaunas (Kowno) 3.12.1860 — 1917. German (Baltic) Linguist. In 1879-83 studies of ...

WIJK, Nicolaas van. Delden 4.10.1880 — Leiden 25.3.1941. Dutch Slavic, German and IE Linguist. ...

WIJK, Walter Emile van. Amsterdam 23.1.1887 — Arnhem 14.11.1961. ...

WIKANDER, Oscar Stig.

WILFORD, Francis. 1771 (1761?) — Benares 1822. British (of German Origin) Colonial ...

WILHELM, Eugen. Neustadt 5.6.1842 — 1923. German Iranian Scholar. Professor in Jena. ...

WILKEN, Friedrich. Ratzeburg 23.5.1777 — Berlin 24.12.1840. German Historian and Orientalist. Professor in Heidelberg ...

WILKINS, Charles. Frome, Somerset bapt. 21.6.1749 (not 1750!) — London 13.5.1833. Sir. ...

WILKINS, Gordon Smedley. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in India. Worked in ...

WILKINS, William Joseph. 1843 — 1902. British Missionary in India. In service of London ...

WILKINSON, Lancelot. Cornhil 1805? — Sehore 13.11.1841. British Scholar of Astronomy in ...

WILKS, Mark. Isle of Man 1759 — Berwickshire 19.9.1831. British Colonial Officer in India. ...

WILLIAM OF RUBRUK (Guglielmus de Rubruquis, Ruysbroeck, Risbroucke). 1215/20 — after 1255. Flemish Traveller, ...

WILLIAMS, Alfred Owen. South Marston near Swindon, Wiltshire 7.2.1877 — Ibid. 10.4.1930. “The Hammerman ...

WILLIAMS, Robert Hamilton Blair. Buckland, East Tilbury, Essex 21.8.1915 — 1975. British ...

WILLMAN-GRABOWSKA, Helena Antonina Maria. Warsaw 4.1.1870 — Krakow 31.10.1957. Polish Indologist. Professor ...

WILSON, Charles Robert. Old Charlton, Kent 27.3.1863 — Clapham 24.7.1904. British Civil Servant (Teacher) ...

WILSON, Horace Hayman. London 26.9.1784/86 — London 8.5.1860. British Indologist. In India ...

WILSON, John. Lauder, Berwickshire 11.12.1804 — near Bombay 1.12.1875. Rev. British (Scots) ...

WIMMER, Ludvig Frands Adalbert. Ringkøbing 7.2.1839 — Copenhagen 29.4.1920. Danish Linguist. Son of a ...

WINANS, Samuel Ross. Lyons Farms NJ 1.3.1855 — Princeton NJ 25.7.1910. U.S. Classical Philologist ...

WINDEKENS, Albert Joris

WINDISCH, Ernst Wilhelm Oskar. Dresden 4.9.1844 — Dresden 30.10. 1918. German Indologist ...

WINDISCHMANN, Friedrich Heinrich Hugo. Aschaffenburg 13.12.1811 — Munich 23.8.1861. German Indo-Iranian Scholar ...

WINDISCHMANN, Karl Joseph Hieronymus. Mainz 24.8.1775 — Bonn 23.4.1839. German Philosopher. Father of —> ...

WINFIELD, Walter Warren. 18?? — 1970?. Rev. British Missionary in India. The Vocabulary was ...

WINSLOW, Miron. Williston, Vermont 11.12.1789 — Cape Town 22.10.1864. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Tamil ...

WINSTEDT, Richard Olaf. Oxford 2.8.1878 — 2.6.1966. Sir. British South-East Asian (Malay) Scholar. Educated ...

WINTER, August. 1866 — 1???. German Student of Indology. Apparently studied first under Jacobi ...

WINTERNITZ, Moriz. Horn/Nieder-Österreich 23.12.1863 — Prague 9.1. 1937. Austrian Indologist in Czechoslovakia. ...

WIRTZ, Johannes (Hans) Friedrich Alb.WISE, Thomas Alexander

WISER, William Hen(d)ricks. Pennsylvania 1890 — 1961. U. S. Presbyter Missionary and Anthropologist. Graduated ...

WISSMANN, Wilhelm. Berlin 27.2.1899 — Munich 21.12.1966. German IE Linguist. Son of a bank ...

WLISLOCKI, Heinrich Adalbert von. ...

WOEPCKE (Woepke), Franz. Dessau 6.5.1826 — Paris 25.3.1864. German Orientalist (Arabic Scholar) and Historian ...

WOHLGEMUTH, Else. Berlin 16.7.1882 — 19??. German Student of Indology and Sinology. Matriculated in ...

WOLFENDEN, Stuart N. 1889 — 28.12.1938 (when 47). U.S. Tibeto-Burman Linguist. At University of ...

WOLFF, Fritz. Berlin 11.11.1880 — Auschwitz after 31.3.1943. German Iranian Scholar. Son ...

WOLFF, Joseph. Weilersbach near Bamberg 1795 — Isle Brewers, Somerset 2.5.1862. Rev. German Priest, ...

WOLLHEIM DA FONSECA, Anton Eduard

WOOD, Francis Asbury. Point Bluff, Wis. 17.1.1859 — La Jolla, Calif. 19.6.1948. U.S. IE ...

WOOD, John. Perth, Scotland 1811/12 — 13.11.1871. British (Scots) Naval Officer in India and ...

WOOD, Mark. Perth, Scotland 1747 — London 6.2.1829. Sir (Bart.). British (Scots) Military Engineer ...

WOODROFFE, John George (ps. Arthur Avalon). Calcutta 13.2./15.12. 1865 — Beausoleil, France 16/18.1.1936. Sir. British Lawyer and Indologist in India. Son of of James Tisdall Woodroffe, Advocate-General of Bengal, and ...

WOODS, James Haughton. Boston 27.11.1864 — 14.1.1935. U.S. Indologist. Professor in Cambridge ...

WOODWARD, Frank Lee ...

WOOLNER, Alfred Cooper. Etruria Hall near Hanley, Staffordshire 13.5.1878 — Lahore 7.1.1936. ...

WORTHAM, Biscoe Hale.

WRIGHT, Henry Nelson. 1870 ...

WRIGHT, Joseph. Idle near Bradford, Yorkshire31.10.1855 — 27.2.1930. British Linguist. Son of Dufton Wright, ...

WULFF, Kurt. Hellerup 4.9.1881 — 4.5.1939. Danish Linguist (Indologist, South-East and East ...

WÜRTH, Johann Gottlob. 18?? ...

WÜST, Walter. Kaiserslautern 7.5.1901 — Munich 21.3.1993. German Indologist and IE Linguist. ...

WUTTKE, Karl Friedrich Adolf. ...

WYATT, Joseph Light. Bishopsworth near Bristol 31.3.1841 — 22.2.1936. Rev. British Missionary and Tamil ...

WYLIE, Turrell Verl (“Terry”). Durango, Colorado 20.8.1927 — Seattle 25.8.1984. U.S. Tibetologist. Professor in ...