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  • WAAG, Anatol

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

  • WAALS, Henrik Gerardus van der

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

  • WACHSBERGER, Arthur

    WACHSBERGER, Arthur. Troppau, Silesia (now Opava in Czechia) 7.5.1891 — Haifa 21/22.6.1943. Austrian  Art Historian and Architect. Son of a Jewish merchant, Hermann Wachsberger (1857–1932?) ...

  • WACKERNAGEL, Jacob

    WACKERNAGEL, Jacob (Jakob). Basel 11.12.1853 — Basel 22.5.1938. Swiss IE Linguist, Greek and Sanskrit Scholar. Professor in Göttingen and Basel. Son of Wilhelm ...

  • WADDELL, L. Austine

    WADDELL, Laurence Austine. Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire 29.5.1854 — 20.9.1938. British (Scottish) Physician and Tibetan Scholar in India. Son of Rev. Thomas Clement ...

  • WADE, John Peter

    WADE, John Peter. Ireland 1762 — Calcutta 14.10.1802. British (Scottish or Irish?) Physician in India. Studied medicine at Edinburgh. From 1784 Assistant Medical Surgeon in E.I.C.’s service, first in ...

  • WADE, T. Russell

    WADE, Thomas Russell. Waldron, Wealden dt., East Sussex 1839? — Eastbourne, East Sussex 23.10.1914, when 75. Rev. British Missionary in India. Educated at C.M.S. College in Islington.  Arrived at Calcutta ...

  • WAGENER, Auguste

    WAGENER, Auguste. Roermund (Netherlands) 8.6.1829 — Ghent 14.5.1896. Belgian Classical Philologist. Professor in Ghent. Born in the Netherlands, son of Jan-Baptist Wagener (d. 1862), a ...

  • WAGNER, Paul

    WAGNER, Paul. 1868 — 1951 (?). Rev. German Missionary in India. Worked from 1895 for Gossner Mission in Purulia,  Chota Nagpur. In 1915 WW I forced him back to ...

  • WAGNER, Reinhard

    WAGNER, Reinhard. 1??? — 194?. German Specialist of Bengali. Ph.D. Schoolteacher (Studienrat). As part-time Docent taught Bengali at Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in ...

  • WAIT, William Henry

    WAIT, William Henry. McConnell, Illinois 1854? — Ann Arbor 28.2.1939. U.S. Linguist and Germanist. Son of Nelson Wait (1811–1868) and Mary Catherine Root. Graduated B.A. ...

  • WALDE, Alois

    WALDE, Alois. Innsbruck 30.11.1869 — Innsbruck (N.D.B., but Wikipedia & Prabook say Königsberg) 3.10.1924. Austrian IE and Classical Scholar. Son of ...

  • WALDSCHMIDT, Ernst

    WALDSCHMIDT, Ernst Heinrich Franz. Lünen, Westfalen 15.7.1897 — Göttingen 25.2.1985. German Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Friedrich Ernst Waldschmidt ...

  • WALDSCHMIDT, Rose Leonore

    WALDSCHMIDT, Rose Leonore  Marie (née Ohrlich). Berlin 21.5.1895 — 1988. German Indologist. Daughter of Bernhard Max Richard Ohrlich (1862–1944), auditor and tax consultant, and Pauline Katharina Herrmann, educated ...

  • WALHOUSE, M. J.

    WALHOUSE, Moreton John. Leamington, Warwickshire 19.4.1821 — London 11.1.1913. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Archaeology and Folklore. Son of James Walhouse (1764–1838) and ...

  • WÄLIKANGAS, Eino

    WÄLIKANGAS, Eino (until 1906 Buddén). Savonlinna 11.10.1889 — Helsinki 4.3.1960. Finnish Diplomat, former Student of Indology . Son of Emil Johannes Buddén (1855–1931), a teacher, ...

  • WALKER, Alexander

    WALKER, Alexander. Collessie, Fife 12.5.1764 — Edinburgh 5.4.1831.  British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Eldest son of Rev. William Walker (1736–1771) of Church of Scotland, ...

  • WALKER, George David

    WALKER, George David. 23.9.1884 (1894?) — 1971. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Deputy Commissioner of Garo Hills in 1923-29. In 1938 apparently still in ...

  • WALL, George

    WALL, George. North Shields, Northumberland 22.12.1820 — London 16.12.1894. British Merchant, Coffee Planter, Politician, amateur Astronomer, Botanist and Humanitarian in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. George Wall, a Methodist ...

  • WALLENIUS, Ivar Ulrik

    WALLENIUS, Ivar Ulrik. Akaa 30.1.1793 — Helsinki 23.5.1874. Finnish Orientalist (originally Arabic Scholar). Son of Rev. Johan Wallenius (1758–1829) and Anna Lovisa Favorin 1755–1798), both ...

  • WALLESER, Max

    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

    WALLICH, Nathanael Wolff (born as Nathan ben Wulff W.). Copenhagen 28.1.1786 (1785?) — London 28.4.1854. Danish Physician and Botanist in India. Son of Wulff ben ...

  • WALLIS, Henry White

    WALLIS, Henry White. Stockwell near London 10.7.1861 — Cambridge 18.7.1887. British Indologist. Son of Rev. Joseph Wallis (1823–1882) and Albina Elworthy (1827–1908), educated ...

  • WALSH, E. H. C.

    WALSH, Ernest Herbert Cooper. Derbyshire 7.3.1865 — 30.4.1952 (when 87). British Civil Servant in ...

  • WALSHE, Maurice O’Connell

    WALSHE, Maurice O’Connell. London 22.12.1911 — 18.4.1998. British Germanist and Bauddha. Born of a family with Irish background. Studied German ...

  • WALTER, Hermann

    WALTER, Hermann. 1863 (?) — 1952 (?). Swiss (?) Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1893 Munich (E. Kuhn). For his dissertation studied manuscripts in England. The ...

  • WALTER, Otto

    WALTER, Otto. Goseck, Sachsen-Anhalt 28.12.1868 (1878?) — 1941?. German Indologist. Son of Bruno Walter, a Lutheran minister, educated at Naumburg Gymnasium. From 1888 ...

  • WALTHER, Christoph Theodosius

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

  • WARD, Benjamin Swain

    WARD, Benjamin Swain. 1786 — Cape Town 19.6.1835.  British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Francis Swain Ward (1736–1794). Lieutenant of Madras infantry. In 1799-1810 ...

  • WARD, C. H. S.

    WARD, Charles Henry Spurgeon. Halton by Leeds, Yorkshire 21.7.1876 — Wells, Somerset 17.3.1957. Rev. British Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of ...

  • WARD, George Ernest

    WARD, George Ernest. Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire 20.9.1837 (or 1827?) — Southsea, Hampshire 31.1.1915. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Ward (1795–1861) and Ann Merriman (1802–1844). Educated in ...

  • WARD, Susan R.

    WARD, Susan R. (formerly Benjamin, née Stone). Belcherton, MA 5.2.1822 — Calcutta 27.4.1884. American Baptist Missionary in Assam. Married 1848 Rev. Judson Benjamin (1819–1855) and came with him to ...

  • WARD, William

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

  • WARDEN, John

    WARDEN, John. 1805? — after 1853.  British Civil Servant in India. Worked as police in Bombay Presidency, later (1845) judge in Bombay and Poona (Pune). ...

  • WARDLAW-RAMSAY —> RAMSAY
    WARDLAW-RAMSAY —> RAMSAY
  • WARE, James R.

    WARE, James Roland. 1901 — 27.2.1991 (or 1993?). U.S. Buddhist Scholar and Sinologist. Studies of Indology (and probably Classics) at University ...

  • WARING, Edward Scott —> Edward SCOTT WARING
    WARING, Edward Scott —> Edward SCOTT WARING
  • WARNER, Langdon

    WARNER, Langdon. Cambridge, Mass. 1.8.1881 — ibid. 9.6.1955. U.S. Art Historian and Central Asian Explorer. Son of advocate Joseph Bangs Warner (1848–1923) and Margret Woodbury ...

  • WARREN, Henry Clarke

    WARREN, Henry Clarke. Boston, MA 18.11.1854 — Cambridge, MA 2/3.1.1899. U.S. Indologist (Buddhist Scholar). Son of Samuel Denis Warren (1817–1888), a wealthy ...

  • WARREN, Herbert

    WARREN, Herbert. 1866 — 1954. British Promoter of Jainism. Studied under Virchand Gandhi (1864–1901) and ...

  • WARREN, John (Jean de Warren)

    WARREN, John (Jean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren, Count de Warren). Leghorn 21.9.1769 — Pondichéry 9.2.1830. British-French Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Count Henri Hyacinthe de ...

  • WARREN, Sybrandus Johannes

    WARREN, Sybrandus (Sieb) Johannes. Dokkum, Friesland 19.8.1847 — Rotterdam 3.1.1910. Dutch Indologist and Classical Philologist. Son of school director Johannes Henricus Warren (1809–1853) ...

  • WARREN, William F.

    WARREN, William Fairfield. Williamsburg, MA 13.3.1833 — Brookline, MA 7.12.1929. Rev. U.S. Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Episcopal priest. Son of Mather Warren (1800–1869) and ...

  • WASSILIEFF

    WASSILIEFF —> VASIL’EV, Vasilij Pavlovič.

  • WASSON, R. Gordon

    WASSON, Robert Gordon. Great Falls, Montana 22.9.1898 — Danbury, CT (or Binghampton, NY) 26.12.1986. U.S. “Ethnomycologist”. Son of an Episcopal clergyman, grew up in Newark, ...

  • WATERFIELD, William

    WATERFIELD, William Garrow. London 14.8.1832 — Teignbridge, Devon 24.1.1907. British Civil Servant and Poet in India. Son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (1799–1862), registrar in bankruptcy court, and Elizabeth Bentall. Educated ...

  • WATERHOUSE, James

    WATERHOUSE, James John. London 24.7.1842 — Eltham, London 28.9.1922. British Colonial Officer and Photographer in India. Son of James William Waterhouse, a solicitor, and his ...

  • WATHEN, William Henry

    WATHEN, William Henry. Gloucestershire 31.12.1794 — Cape Town 28.6.1866, when 71. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Samuel Wathen (d. 1818) and Elizabeth Sheppard. ...

  • WATSON, John W.

    WATSON, John Whaley. India 25.12.1837 — Rajkot, Gujarat 24.3.1889. British Colonial Officer in India, interested in Archaeology and History. Son of Colonel ...

  • WATT, George

    WATT, George. Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire 24.4.1851 — Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire 2.4.1930. Sir. British (Scottish) Physician and Botanist in India. Son of John Watt, educated at King’s ...

  • WATTERS, Thomas

    WATTERS, Thomas. Newtownards, County Down, Ireland 9.2.1840 — Ealing (London) 10.1.1901. British (of Northern Ireland) Diplomat and Sinologist. Son of a Presbyterian minister, Rev. Thomas ...

  • WAUCHOPE, Robert Stuart

    WAUCHOPE, Robert Stuart (until 1920 R. S. Wahab). Bengal 20.3.1887 — 1943. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of a Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab ...

  • WAYLAND, Edward James

    WAYLAND, Edward James. London 23.1.1888 — Ramsgate, Kent 11.7.1966. British Geologist and Civil Servant in Sri Lanka and Africa. Son of Edward Wayland and Emily ...

  • WAYMAN, Alex
    WAYMAN, Alex. Chicago 11.1.1921 — New York 22.9.2004. U.S. Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in New York. During WW II served in the army, ...
  • WEBB, William Wilfred

    WEBB, William Wilfred. 1858 — 18.11.1911. British (Scottish?) Physician in India. Studies at Aberdeen. Joined Indian Medical Service in 1882. Surgeon-Captain of Bengal army, served in Rajasthan. Retired 1894 ...

  • WEBER, Albrecht

    WEBER, Friedrich Albrecht. Breslau 17.2.1825 — Berlin 30.11.1901. German Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of Friedrich Benedikt Weber (1774–1848), a Professor of Economics ...

  • WEBSTER, William Frederick

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

  • WECKER, Otto

    WECKER, Otto. Neuler/Rottenburg, near Tübingen 31.8.1882 — Göttingen 4.9.1965. German Indologist and Classical Scholar. Studies of philology at Berlin and Münster,then student of ...

  • WECKERLING, Adolf

    WECKERLING, Georg Adolf. Friedberg, Hessen 22.5.1882 — 1955. German Physician and Poet. In 1900 matriculated from Friedberg, then studied medicine at Giessen and ...

  • WEIBGEN, Günther

    WEIBGEN, Günther. 1896 — 1948. German Indologist. Studied at Berlin (1921 already there) under Lüders. He was too early employed in Berlin library ...

  • WEIDENBACH, Hermann
    WEIDENBACH, Hermann. 1901 — 19??. German Student of IE. Ph.D. 1932 Heidelberg. Google knows another diss. Das Geheimnis der Schweren Basis: ...
  • WEIDERT, Alfons K.

    WEIDERT, Alfons Klaus. 21.3.1943 — Bangkok 24.7.1988. German Tibeto-Burman Linguist. Ph.D. 1971 Heidelberg. PD 1982 Kiel. In 1981-84 ...

  • WEIGLE, Gottfried Hartmann

    WEIGLE, Gottfried Hartmann. Esslingen-Zell am Neckar 1.6.1816 — Mangalore 7.1.1855. German Missionary in India, member of Basel Mission. Characterized as a linguist. Son of a ...

  • WEIHRICH, Franz

    WEIHRICH, Franz. 26.7.1845 — Vienna 20.6.1910. German Schoolman and former Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1869 Giessen (Vullers). Tutor of the children of the Austro-Hungarian ...

  • WEILER, Royal W

    WEILER, Royal W. Allentown, PA 16.9.1927 — Philadelphia County ?.1.1987 (when 59). U.S. Indologist. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Fred W. Weiler, Sr. ...

  • WEINFURTER, Karel

    WEINFURTER, Karel. Jičin, region Hradec Králové, Bohemia 27.5.1867 — Prague 14.3.1942. Czech Author and Translator. Son of Karel Weinfurter, an official and ...

  • WEINREICH, Uriel

    WEINREICH, Uriel. Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius. Lithuania) 23.5.1926 — New York City 30.3.1967. U.S. (born Polish Jew) Linguist. Son of linguist Max Weinreich (1894–1969), a ...

  • WEINRICH, Friedrich

    WEINRICH, Friedrich. 28.3.1905 — 8.6.1960. German Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. 1928 Göttingen (or Marburg, under R. Otto?). Then at Jena Theological faculty, from 1939 as PD and 1943 as ...

  • WEISGERBER, Leo

    WEISGERBER, Johann Leo. Metz 25.2.1899 — Bonn 8.8.1985. German (of Lorraine) Linguist and Celtologist. Son of a village teacher, Nikolaus Ludwig Weisgerber, and Maria Müller. ...

  • WEISSBACH, Franz Heinrich

    WEISSBACH, Franz Heinrich (until 1890 Weisbach). Chemnitz 25.11.1865 — Markkleeberg near Leipzig 20.2.1944. German Assyriologist. Librarian in Leipzig. Son of Franz Robert Weissbach, ...

  • WELDEN, Ellwood Austin

    WELDEN, Ellwood Austin. 1883 — 19??. U.S. Scholar and Diplomat, former Student of Indology. Studies of comparative philology (with Sanskrit), Classics and Romance ...

  • WELLER, Friedrich

    WELLER, Friedrich. Markneukirchen, Vogtland 22.7.1889 — Leipzig 19.11.1980. German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. The only child of Friedrich Wilhelm Weller (1854–1944), a violin ...

  • WELLER, Hermann

    WELLER, Hermann Anton(ius) (nom-de-plume Hans Lindach). Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Württemberg 4.2.1878 — Tübingen 9.12.1956. German Indologist and Poet. Born in a Roman Catholic ...

  • WELLESZ, Emmy

    WELLESZ, Emmy (née Emilia Franziska Stross) .Vienna 8.1.1889 — Vienna 13.6.1987. Austrian Art Historian. Daughter of Ludwig Stross (1852–1913), a cloth dealer, and Vilma Propper, a Jewish family. Grew up ...

  • WELLSTED, Thomas Arthur

    WELLSTED, Thomas Arthur. London 3.4.1904 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ?.10.1989 (or 1990?). British Mining Engineer in India. Son of Thomas Wilhelm Wellsted (1865–1919) ...

  • WENDEL, François-Xavier

    WENDEL, François-Xavier. 1732? — Lakhnau 20.3.1803. Father. German Jesuit Missionary in India. Very little is known of his life. He arrived in India in 1751. ...

  • WENGER, John

    WENGER, John (Johann). Schwarzeneck (Bruchenbühl) near Bern 31.8.1811 — Calcutta 20.8.1880. Rev. Swiss Missionary in India. Son of Christian Wenger (d. 1816) and his wife, ...

  • WENNERBERG, Claes

    WENNERBERG, Claes Krister Gunnar. 1939 — ?.7.1996, when 57. Swedish Indologist. Son of Gunnar Wennerberg and Torborg “Bojan” Broden. Studies at Gothenburg under ...

  • WENZEL, Heinrich

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

  • WEÖRES, Sándor

    WEÖRES, Sándor. Szombathely near Austrian border 22.6.1913 — 22.1.1989. Hungarian Poet and Translator. Son of the elder S. Weöres and Mária Blaskovich. Published ...

  • WERTZ, Dorothy C.

    WERTZ, Dorothy Corbett (née D. Corbett).  Buffalo, NY 18.5.1937 — Cancun, Benito Juarez, Mexico 29.4.2003. U.S. Scholar of Religion. Daughter of William Joseph Corbett ...

  • WESDIN, Ph.

    WESDIN, Ph. —> PAULINUS A SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO.

  • WESENDONK, Otto von

    WESENDONK, Otto-Günther Alfred Moritz von (born O.-G. Wesendonck). Berlin 3.10.1885 — Berlin (Wikip. St. Margarethen, Upper Bavaria) 11.7.1933. German Diplomat and Iranian Scholar. ...

  • WESSELSKI, Albert

    WESSELSKI, Albert. Vienna 3.9.1871 — Prague 2.2.1939. Austrian Journalist and Folklorist in Czechoslovakia. Son of gymnasium professor Franz Wesselski (d. 1875) and Franziska ...

  • WEST, Arthur A.

    WEST, Arthur Anderson. London 23.8.1827 — Theydon Bois, Essex 1913. British Engineer in India. Son of William West and WEST, E. W.

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

  • WEST, Hans

    WEST, Hans. Mesinge, Fyn 6.7.1758 — Kassel, Germany 6.7.1811. Danish Scholar interested in India. Son of a minister, Hans Zacharias Danchel West (1719–1771) ...

  • WEST, Michael Philip

    WEST, Michael Philip. Bournemouth, Hampshire (or Cheltenham, Gloucestershire?) 26.9.1888 — Painswick, Gloucesterhire 19.3.1973. British Teacher in India. Son of Rev. George Herbert West (1845–1927), a Headmaster, and Florence Mary Middlemore-Whithard. ...

  • WEST, Raymond

    WEST, Raymond. Ballyloughrane, co. Kerry 18.9.1832 — Upper Norwood, London 8.9.1912. Sir. Irish (of English background) Civil Servant in India. Son of Frederick Henry West,a ...

  • WESTCOTT, George H.

    WESTCOTT, George Herbert. Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex 18.4.1862 — Allahabad 16.1.1928. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Brooke ...

  • WESTCOTT, Roger W.

    WESTCOTT, Roger Williams. Philadelphia 28.4.1925 — Southbury, Conn. 21.11.2000. U.S. Linguist. From 1942 studies at Princeton, Ph.D. 1948 in Oriental Languages. Taught at M.I.T., ...

  • WESTERGAARD, Niels Ludvig

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

  • WESTMACOTT, E. Vesey

    WESTMACOTT, Edward Vesey. Chastleton, Oxfordshire 1839 (or 1840?) — 1911. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Horatio Westmacott (1806–1862, cousin ...

  • WESTMACOTT, G. E.

    WESTMACOTT, George Edward. London 23.2.1807 — near Kabul 23.11.1841, when 35. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of George Westmacott (1783–1868) and Ann ...

  • WESTPHAL-HELLBUSCH, Sigrid

    WESTPHAL-HELLBUSCH, Sigrid Erna Anna. Rendsburg 10.6.1915 — Oldenburg 1.2.1984. German Anthropologist. Professor in Berlin. Daughter of engineer (DI) Erwin Ludwig Hellbusch and Erna ...

  • WESTPHAL, Heinz

    WESTPHAL, Heinz. 1912 — 21.12.1984. German Physicist, Mathematician and Photographer. Ph.D. Professor in Staatliche Ingenieur-Schule Gauss. From 1953 husband of —> Sigrid Westphal-Hellbusch (1915–1984) with whom he ...

  • WESTPHAL, Rudolf

    WESTPHAL, Rudolf  Georg Hermann. Obernkirchen in Schaumburg 3.7.1826 — Stadthagen, Schaumburg 10.7.1892. German Philologist and Musicologist. Son of a mining engineer. Gymnasium in Bückeburg and Rinteln. From 1845 studied ...

  • WEYRAUCH, August von

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

  • WHALLEY, Paul

    WHALLEY, Paul. Haulbowline, county Cork (or Painswick, Gloucestershire) 19.1.1839 — Vevet, Vaud, Switzerland 1920. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Captain George Briscoe Whalley and Elizabeth Parker. From ...

  • WHATMOUGH, Joshua

    WHATMOUGH, Joshua. Rochdale, Lancashire 30.6.1897 — Winchester, MA 25.4.1964. British IE Linguist in the U.S.A. (citizen 1942). Professor in Cambridge, Mass. Son of Walter Whatmough, ...

  • WHEELER, Benjamin Ide

    WHEELER, Benjamin Ide. Randolph, Mass. 15.7.1854 — Vienna, Austria 3.5.1927. U.S. Classical and IE Scholar. The only son of Rev. Benjamin Wheeler (1807–1876), a Baptist ...

  • WHEELER, J. Talboys

    WHEELER, James Talboys. Oxford 22.12.1824 — Ramsgate, Kent 13.1.1897. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of James Luft Wheeler, a bookseller, and Anna ...

  • WHEELER, Sir Mortimer

    WHEELER, Mortimer (Robert Eric Mortimer; “Ric”). Glasgow 10.9.1890 — Surrey 22.7.1976. Sir. British archæologist. Son of English journalist Robert Wheeler and Emily Baynes. Grew up ...

  • WHISH, Charles M.

    WHISH, Charles Matthew. Marylebone, London 9.1.1795 — Cuddapah (Kadapa) 14.4.1833. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Martin Whish (1743–1826), a Commissioner of Excise, and Harriet Tyssen (1765–1841). After ...

  • WHITE, Herbert

    WHITE, Herbert. 25.8.1857 — 19??. Civil Servant in Sri Lanka (from 1879). Acting District Judge of Ratnapura (1884). Also mentioned as Government Agent in Badulla and Uva, and as ...

  • WHITEHEAD, George

    WHITEHEAD, George. 1862 — Halton West, North Yorkshire 3.4.1935. Rev. British Anglican Missionary. From Yorkshire, of an old yeoman family. B.A. 1884 University of London, ...

  • WHITEHEAD, Henry

    WHITEHEAD, Henry Alfred. Brighton, Sussex 19.12.1853 — Reading, Berkshire 14.4.1947, when 93. British Anglican Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Alfred Whitehead (1827–1898) and Maria Sarah ...

  • WHITEHEAD, R. B.

    WHITEHEAD, Richard Bertram. Liverpool 6.11.1879 — Cambridge 4.3. 1967. British Civil Servant and Numismatist. Son of Rev. Robert Whitehead and Isabella Grimshaw. Educated ...

  • WHITLEY, Edward Hamilton

    WHITLEY, Edward Hamilton. Mussoorie, India 1866 — Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire 16.3.1945, when 79. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. —> Jabez Cornelius Whitley (1837–1904, 1890-1904 the first Bishop ...

  • WHITLEY, Jabez Cornelius

    WHITLEY, Jabez Cornelius. London (or Shoreditch, Middlesex) 20.1.1837 — Darjeeling 13/18.10.1904. Right Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Edward Whitley and ...

  • WHITNEY, Loren Harper
    WHITNEY, Loren Harper. 12.9.1834 — 1912. U.S. Lawyer Interested in Religions. Worked in Chicago (1905).
    Publications: Life and Teachings of Zoroaster, the ...
  • WHITNEY, William Dwight

    WHITNEY, William Dwight. Nothampton, Mass. 9.2.1827 (hardly 1828) — New Haven, Conn. 7/8.6.1894. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New Haven. Born in an old ...

  • WICKI, Josef

    WICKI, Josef.  Zürich 30.6.1904 — Feldkirch, Vorarlberg 17.2.1993. Fr.  S.J. Swiss Historian of Missions. Son of Franz Wicki and Rosa Witprächtiger. Joined S.J. in 1922 ...

  • WIDENGREN, Geo

    WIDENGREN, Geo. Stockholm 24.4.1907 — Stockholm 28.1.1996. Swedish Scholar of Comparative Religion and of Iranian and Semitic Philology. Professor in Uppsala. Son of ...

  • WIDGERY, Alban G.

    WIDGERY, Alban Gregory. Bloxwich, Staffordshire 9.5.1887 — Winchester, Va. 22.3.1968. British Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Son of Rev. John ...

  • WIEDEMANN, Oskar

    WIEDEMANN, Oskar Johann. Jurburg, govt. Kaunas (Jurbarke, Lithuania) 3.12.1860 — Leipzig 9.12.1918. German (Baltic) Linguist. In 1879-83 studies of ...

  • WIJK, Nicolaas van

    WIJK, Nicolaas van. Delden, Overijssel 4.10.1880 — Leiden 25.3.1941. Dutch Slavic, German and IE Linguist. Son of Aart Willem van Wijk, a minister, ...

  • WIJK, Walter van

    WIJK, Walter Emile van. Amsterdam 23.1.1887 — Arnhem 14.11.1961. Dutch Scholar of Chronology and History of Science. Son of Wouter van Wijk (1854?–1915), ...

  • WIKANDER, Stig

    WIKANDER, Oscar Stig. Norrtälje 27.8.1908 — Uppsala 20.12.1983. Swedish Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Uppsala. Son of Åke ...

  • WILBERFORCE-BELL, Harold

    WILBERFORCE-BELL, Harold. 1885 — Portington, East Riding, Yorkshire 1956. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of elder H.W.-B. and Lucy Wilson. Educated at Ellesmere College, studies at ...

  • WILFORD, Francis

    WILFORD, Francis. 1761 (1771 makes him too young for his early career) — Benares 1822. British (of German Origin) Colonial Officer ...

  • WILHELM, Eugen

    WILHELM, Erdmann Eugen. Neustadt an der Orla, Thüringen 5.6.1842 — 1923. German Iranian Scholar. Professor in Jena. Son of a Superintendent, educated in ...

  • WILKEN, Friedrich

    WILKEN, Friedrich. Ratzeburg, Holstein 23.5.1777 — Berlin 24.12.1840. German Historian and Oriental Scholar. Professor in Heidelberg and Berlin. Of modest origin, son of ...

  • WILKINS, Charles

    WILKINS, Charles. Frome, Somerset bapt. 21.6.1749 (not 1750!) — London 13.5.1833. Sir. British Pioneer of Indology. In India 1770-86. Son of ...

  • WILKINS, Gordon S.

    WILKINS, Gordon Smedley. Derby 2.3.1869 — Bromley, Kent 5.1.1957. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in India. Son of George Wilkins (1830–1886) and Mary Stevenson. ...

  • WILKINS, William J.

    WILKINS, William Joseph. Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham bait. 29.1.1843 ...

  • WILKINSON, Lancelot

    WILKINSON, Lancelot. Crosby-Ravensworth, Cumbria 22.6.1805 — Sehore near Bhopal 13.11.1841. British Scholar of Astronomy in India. Son of James Wilkinson ...

  • WILKS, Mark

    WILKS, Mark. Isle of Man 1759 — Kelloe House, Berwickshire 19.9.1831. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Rev. James Wilks (1719–1777) and ...

  • WILLATT, John

    WILLATT, John. 1??? — 19??. British Colonial Officer in India. Major (1941). One Ltn. J.W. served in Italy in WW 1.

    Publications: With P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar: A ...

  • WILLIAM OF RUBRUCK (Guglielmus de Rubruquis, Ruysbroeck, Risbroucke)

    WILLIAM OF RUBRUCK (Guglielmus de Rubruquis, Guillaume de Rubrouck, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Risbroucke). 1215/20 — after 1255. Flemish Traveller, a Franciscan Monk. Probably ...

  • WILLIAMS, Alfred

    WILLIAMS, Alfred Owen. South Marston near Swindon, Wiltshire 7.2.1877 — Ibid. 10.4.1930. “The Hammerman Poet”. British Poet interested in Sanskrit Literature. Son of ...

  • WILLIAMS, Monier

    WILLIAMS, Monier —> MONIER-WILLIAMS, Sir Monier.

  • WILLIAMS, Robert

    WILLIAMS, Robert Hamilton Blair. Buckland, East Tilbury, Essex 21.8.1915 — 1975 (place and date not known). British Indologist. At S.O.A.S. in ...

  • WILLIAMS, William Holme.

    WILLIAMS, William Holme. 18?? – 19??. U.S. Classical and Oriental Scholar. A.B. 1876 University of Wisconsin. From 1879 Instructor and 1883 Assistant Professor ...

  • WILLIAMSON, Henry

    WILLIAMSON, Henry Drummond. Alvaston, Derbyshire 17.12.1854 — 21.3.1926. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. G.F.W., educated at Rossall School. Studies at Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, B.A. 1877, M.A. ...

  • WILLIAMSON, W. J.

    WILLIAMSON, W. J. 18?? — 19??. British Colonial Officer in India. Apparently served in India in 1854-95. Lieutenant, soon (1872) Captain. From 1866 the first Deputy Commissioner of Garo ...

  • WILLMAN-GRABOWSKA, Helena

    WILLMAN-GRABOWSKA, Helena Antonina Maria. Warsaw 4.1.1870 — Cracow 31.10.1957. Polish Indologist. Professor in Krakow. Daughter of Józef Wojciech Grabowski (1818–1892) and ...

  • WILMOT, Rupert

    WILMOT, Claude Rupert Trench. Stoke Newington, London 10.11.1897 — Cirencester, Gloucestershire 27.7.1961. British Colonial Officer in North-West India. ...

  • WILS, Johannes Arnoldus Fredericus

    WILS, Johannes Arnoldus Fredericus. Nijmegen 16.8.1901 — 1975. Dutch Linguist. Ph.D. Professor at Nijmegen Catholic University. He was also interested in non-IE languages (African and South American). Married Charlotta de ...

  • WILSER, Ludwig

    WILSER, Ludwig. Karlsruhe 5.10.1850 — Heidelberg 19.11.1923. German Physician and Racist Theoretician. Gymnasium in Karlsruhe, medical studies at Freiburg, Heidelberg and Leipzig. Dr.Med. Then practising ...

  • WILSON, Charles Robert

    WILSON, Charles Robert. Old Charlton, Kent 27.3.1863 — Clapham, London 24.7.1904. British Civil Servant (Teacher) in India, Historian of the Colonial Period. Son ...

  • WILSON, Horace Hayman

    WILSON, Horace Hayman. London 26.9.1786 (date uncertain) — London 8.5.1860. British Indologist. In India 1808-32, then Professor in Oxford. Born in ...

  • WILSON, James

    WILSON, James. Dunning, Pertshire 27.2.1853 — Crieff, Pertshire 22.9.1926. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. John Wilson and Jane Boag Livingstone, educated at Perth Academy. ...

  • WILSON, John

    WILSON, John. Lauder, Berwickshire 11.12.1804 — near Bombay 1.12.1875. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India, Indologist and Iranian Scholar. Son of ...

  • WILSON, Roland Knyvet

    WILSON, Roland Knyvet. Swaffham, Norfolk 27.8.1840 — Richmond, Surrey 29.10.1919. Sir, 2nd Bart. British Lawyer. Son of Rear-Admiral George Knyvet Wilson (1798–1866) and Agnes Mary Yonge. Educated at Eton, ...

  • WIMMER, Ludvig

    WIMMER, Ludvig Frands Adalbert. Ringkøbing on Jutland west coast 7.2.1839 — Copenhagen 29.4.1920. Danish Linguist. Son of Adalbert Ernst Wimmer, a customs officer, ...

  • WINANS, Samuel Ross

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

  • WINDEKENS, A. J. van

    WINDEKENS, Albert Joris van. Mountain-Ash, Wales 23.4.1915 — Leuven 28.3.1989. Belgian Linguist. Professor ...

  • WINDISCH, Ernst

    WINDISCH, Ernst Wilhelm Oskar. Dresden 4.9.1844 (or 14.9.?) — Leipzig (or Dresden?) 30.10.1918. German Indologist and Celtic Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. ...

  • WINDISCHMANN, Friedrich

    WINDISCHMANN, Friedrich Heinrich Hugo. Aschaffenburg 13.12.1811 — Munich 23.8.1861. German Indo-Iranian Scholar and Theologian, Catholic Priest. Son of Professor —> K.J.H.W. ...

  • WINDISCHMANN, Karl Joseph Hieronymus

    WINDISCHMANN, Karl Joseph Hieronymus. Mainz 24.8.1775 — Bonn 23.4.1839. German Philosopher. Professor in Bonn. Father of —> Friedrich W. (1811–1861). Born and educated ...

  • WINFIELD, Walter Warren

    WINFIELD, Walter Warren. 8.6.1889 — 6.4.1970. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Harry Winfield and Clara Jane East (1852–1906). B.A., B.D. ...

  • WINFRED

    WINFRED: Rev. S. Winfred, the author of Tamil Minor Poets. Madras 1872 and other works, is a Tamil Christian. Probably the same applies then also to H. M. Winfred, the author of Tamil ilakkanatirattu. Epitome ...

  • WINSLOW, Miron

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

  • WINSTEDT, Richard

    WINSTEDT, Richard Olaf. Oxford 2.8.1878 — Putney, London 2.6.1966. Sir. British South-East Asian (Malay) Scholar. Son of a naturalized Swedish ...

  • WINTER, August

    WINTER, August. 1866 — 1???. German Student of Indology. Studied first under Jacobi at Bonn. Ph.D. 1893 Breslau (Hillebrandt). If the second book ...

  • WINTERNITZ, Moriz

    WINTERNITZ, Moriz. Horn/Nieder-Österreich 23.12.1863 — Prague 9.1. 1937. Austrian Indologist in Czechoslovakia. Professor in Prague. Son of a modest Jewish shop-keeper, ...

  • WIRTZ, Hans

    WIRTZ, Johannes (Hans) Friedrich Albert.WIRZ, Paul

    WIRZ, Paul. Moscow 29.5.1892 — Ulopu, Maprik, Papua New Guinea 30.1.1955. Swiss Ethnologist. Born of Swiss parents in Russia, son of Jakob Wirz (1856–1904), a ...

  • WISE, James
    WISE, James Fawns Norton. 1835 — 1886. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of —> Th. A. Wise (1802–1889) and Emily Isabella Disney (1812–1839). Worked ten years ...
  • WISE, Thomas Alexander

    WISE, Thomas Alexander. Dundee 13.6.1802 (?) — Norwood, London 23.7.1889. British (Scottish) Physician in ...

  • WISER, William H.

    WISER, William Hen(d)ricks. Pottstown, Pa 28.1.1890 — Uniontown, Pa 21.2.1961. U.S. Presbyter Missionary and Anthropologist in India. Graduated B.A. from the University of ...

  • WISSMANN, Wilhelm

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

  • WLASCHIM, Katharina
    WLASCHIM, Katharina. Vienna 14.2.1902 — Detroit ?.5.1984. Ph.D. 1927 Vienna. Her surname points to Czech (Vlašim). Daughter of Dagobert Wlaschim (born in Prague) and Bertha Baumgartl, married Fritz ...
  • WLISLOCKI, Heinrich von

    WLISLOCKI, Heinrich Adalbert von. Kronstadt (now Braşov) 9.7.1856 — Klosdorf bei Kleinkopisch (now Şona in Translivania) 19.2.1907. Austrian Gypsy ScholarWODILLA, Paul

    WODILLA, Paul. 4.3.1903 — 7.3.1982. Slovakian student of Indologyin Germany. Gymnasium in Kežmarok, matriculated 1922. Then studied theology and philosophy at Bratislava, in 1926 moved to Erlangen. ...
  • WOEPCKE (Woepke), Franz

    WOEPCKE (Woepke, Wöpcke), Franz. Dessau 6.5.1826 — Paris 25.3.1864, when 37. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar and Historian of Mathematics in France. Son of ...

  • WOHLGEMUTH, Else

    WOHLGEMUTH, Else. Berlin 16.7.1882 — 19??. German Student of Indology and Sinology. Matriculated in 1906 in Berlin. Studied at Berlin, Marburg and Leipzig. ...

  • WOLFENDEN, Stuart N.

    WOLFENDEN, Stuart N. 1889 — 28.12.1938 (when 47). U.S. Tibeto-Burman Linguist. At University of California, Berkeley. Wolfenden was one of the pioneers of ...

  • WOLFF, Erich

    WOLFF, Erich. Hamburg 5.4.1902 (or 4.5.) — February/March 1995. German Student of Indology (Buddhism). Son of Emil Wolff, Oberlehrer in a gymnasium, educated in ...

  • WOLFF, Fritz

    WOLFF, Fritz Georg. Berlin 11.11.1880 — Auschwitz after 31.3.1943. German Iranian Scholar. Son of a wealthy merchant, Emanuel Wolff (1850–1901), and ...

  • WOLFF, Joseph

    WOLFF, Joseph. Weilersbach near Bamberg 1795 — Isle Brewers, Somerset 2.5.1862. Rev. German Priest, Oriental Scholar and Traveller in Central Asia. Born in ...

  • WOLFF, Philipp

    WOLFF, Philipp. Ulm 22.12.1810 — Tübingen 1.1.1894. German Priest and Oriental Scholar. Studies of theology at Tübingen, but soon moved to Halle and concentrated on Oriental languages. Ph.D. 1834 ...

  • WOLLASTON, Arthur Naylor

    WOLLASTON, Arthur Naylor. Beulah Hill, Norwood, Surrey 14.10.1842 — Walmer, Kent 8.2.1922. Sir.  British Oriental Scholar. Son of Henry Francis W. and Elizabeth Naylor. Educated ...

  • WOLLASTON, Matthew William

    WOLLASTON (Woollaston), Matthew William. Calcutta 24.8.1802 — Mirzapore 10.6.1851. British Teacher and Missionary in India. Son of William Augustus Woollaston and Anne Mendes (1777–1817). Teacher at Government Sanskrit College in ...

  • WOLLHEIM DA FONSECA, Eduard

    WOLLHEIM DA FONSECA, Anton Eduard (also known as Wollheim von Secka). Hamburg 12.2.1810 — Berlin 24.10.1884. German ...

  • WOOD, Francis A.

    WOOD, Francis Asbury. Point Bluff, Wis. 17.1.1859 — La Jolla, Calif. 19.6.1948. U.S. IE and Germanic Linguist. Professor in Chicago. Son of Rev. ...

  • WOOD, John

    WOOD, John. Perth, Scotland 1812 — London 13.11.1871. British (Scottish) Naval Officer in India and Traveller in Central Asia. Educated ...

  • WOOD, Mark

    WOOD, Mark. Perth, Scotland 1747 — London 6.2.1829. Sir (Bart.). British (Scottish) Military Engineer and Traveller in India. Son of Alexander Wood. Cadet ...

  • WOODBURNE, Angus Stewart

    WOODBURNE, Angus Stewart. London, Ontario 1.9.1881 — Madurai 13.2.1938. Rev. Canadian Missionary in India. Son of Thomas W. and Anne Elizabeth Cathro. Studies at McMaster ...

  • WOODROFFE, John (Arthur Avalon)

    WOODROFFE, John George (pen-name Arthur Avalon). Calcutta 13.2./15.12. 1865 — Beausoleil, France 16/18.1.1936. Sir. British Lawyer and Indologist in India. ...

  • WOODS, James Haughton

    WOODS, James Haughton. Boston 27.11.1864 — Tokyo 14.1.1935. U.S. Indologist. Professor in Cambridge MA. Son of Joseph Wheeler Woods and Caroline ...

  • WOODTHORPE, Robert Gosset

    WOODTHORPE, Robert Gosset. Purfleet, Essex 22.9.1844 (or 26.5.) — 28.10.1920 (niceartgallery, others say 1898}.  British Colonial Officer in India, Explorer and Amateur Artist. Major-General. In ...

  • WOODWARD, Frank L.

    WOODWARD, Frank Lee (nom-de-plume Vanapāla). Saham Toney, Norfolk 13.4.1871 — West Tamar (Rowella), Tasmania 27.5.1952. British Indologist ...

  • WOOLNER, Alfred C.

    WOOLNER, Alfred Cooper. Etruria Hall near Hanley, Staffordshire 13.5.1878 — Lahore 7.1.1936. British Indologist in India. Professor in Lahore. Son of ...

  • WORLITZKY, Franz
    WORLITZKY, Franz. 1??? — 19??. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1931 Vienna.
    Publications: Diss. Die Ādityas und ihre Beziehungen zu den ...
  • WORTHAM, B. Hale

    WORTHAM, Biscoe Hale. Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire 1843 — Brentwood, Essex 23.9.1928. Rev. British Priest and Translator of ...

  • WREDE, Francis

    WREDE, Francis (Franz, later Baron von Wrede). 17?? — 18??. German, long time resident in Kerala (Cochin). Son of a civil servant from Heidelberg, probably came to India in the ...

  • WRIGHT, Daniel

    WRIGHT, Daniel. St Andrews and St Leonards, Fife 28.12.1833 — Aberdeen 15.1.1902. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Surgeon-Major of Medical Service. Son of Captain Alexander Wright (1793–1852, of Indian ...

  • WRIGHT, H. Nelson

    WRIGHT, Henry Nelson. Mainput, Uttar Pradesh 29.10.1869 — England 13.5.1941. British Civil Servant and Numismatist In India, concentrating on Muslim coins.

  • WRIGHT, Joseph

    WRIGHT, Joseph. Idle near Bradford, Yorkshire 31.10.1855 — Oxford 27.2.1930. British Linguist. Son of Dufton Wright (d. 1866), a woollen cloth weaver and ...

  • WROTH, Warwick

    WROTH, Warwick William. Clerkenwell near London 24.8.1858 — London 26.9.1911. British Numismatist. Son of Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth (1825?–1867) and Sophia Brooks. After King’s School in Canterbury joined British Museum ...

  • WULFF, Kurt

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

  • WÜRTH, Gottlob

    WÜRTH, Johann Gottlob. Pleidelsheim ...

  • WÜST, Walther

    WÜST, Walther. Kaiserslautern 7.5.1901 — Munich 21.3.1993. German Indologist and IE Linguist. Professor in Munich. Son of a teacher. From 1920 ...

  • WUTTKE, Adolf

    WUTTKE, Karl Friedrich Adolf. Breslau 10.11.1819 — Halle 12.4.1879. German Lutheran Theologian. Son of Heinrich Wuttke, a tailor master, and Anna Hoffmann. After ...

  • WYATT, Joseph Light

    WYATT, Joseph Light. Bishopsworth near Bristol 31.3.1841 — Brandon, Suffolk 22.2.1936. Rev. British Missionary and Tamil Scholar in India. Son-in-law of —> R. ...

  • WYLIE, Turrell V.

    WYLIE, Turrell Verl (“Terry”, also called Ellwyn Turrell Wylie). Durango, Colorado 20.8.1927 — Seattle 25.8.1984. U.S. Tibetologist. Professor in Seattle. Graduated B.A. in ...

  • WYNCH, Paul Marriot

    WYNCH, Paul Marriot(t). India 1780 — Hawkhurst, Kent 12.3.1841. British Civil Servant in India. Son of William Alexander Wynch (1750–1819) and Arrhoda Crocket. Joined Bengal Civil Service in ...

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