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#4601

Nathan Smith

1770 - 1835 (65 years)

#4602

Valentine de Balla

1899 - 1957 (58 years)

Valentine de Balla , also known as Valentin de Balla and Valentin Balla de Iregh, was a Hungarian political scientist who taught at several American colleges from the 1930s to the 1950s. Born on October 23, 1899, in Újvidék, Hungary , de Balla graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, and then from the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied international law. He then studied at Johns Hopkins University, where he received the Ph.D. . His dissertation, "The New Balance of Power in Europe," was published the following year by The Johns Hopkins Press.

#4603

Aaron Ward

1790 - 1867 (77 years)

Aaron Ward was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He served three separate stints in the U.S. House of Representatives during the early-to-mid-19th Century. Life He was born in Sing Sing, Westchester County, New York the son of Moses Ward. He completed preparatory studies in Mount Pleasant Academy, and then studied law. At the beginning of the War of 1812 he was commissioned a lieutenant in the 29th Regiment of Infantry, and in 1814 commissioned a captain. Afterwards he continued to serve in the State Militia, and in 1830 he was promoted to major general. After the war, he resu...

#4604

Italo Pizzi

1849 - 1920 (71 years)

Italo Pizzi was an Italian academic and scholar of Persian language and literature. He was the first to establish the academic field of Persian language and literature in Italy. Biography From a noble family, at age fifteen Pizzi showed a particular interest in studies of oriental languages and in high school he was encouraged by his Latin and Greek teacher, a Sanskritist, to deepen those studies.

#4605

Paul L. Adams

1908 - 1990 (82 years)

Paul Lincoln Adams was an American lawyer, politician, and judge from Michigan. He served as a mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, as a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, as Michigan Attorney General, and as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

#4606

William Edwards Huntington

William Edwards Huntington

1844 - 1930 (86 years)

William Edwards Huntington was an American university dean and president. He was born at Hillsboro, Illinois, served as private and first lieutenant in the Wisconsin Infantry in 1864–1865, and was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and at Boston University , where he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1884 to 1904, president of the university in 1904–1911, and dean of the graduate department after 1911. In early life he was a Methodist minister, having been ordained in 1868, and he held pastorates in Massachusetts at Nahant , Roslindale , Newton , Cambridge , and Bosto...

#4607

Stanley Leathes

1830 - 1900 (70 years)

Stanley Leathes was an English theologian and Orientalist. Biography He was born at Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, the son of the Rev. Chaloner Stanley Leathes, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was awarded a Tyrwhitt's Hebrew scholarship. He was ordained priest in 1857, and after serving several curacies was appointed professor of Hebrew at King's College London, in 1863. In 1868–1870 he was Boyle lecturer , in 1873 Hulsean lecturer , in 1874 Bampton Lecturer and from 1876 to 1880 Warburtonian lecturer.

#4608

August Ferdinand Mehren

1822 - 1907 (85 years)

August Ferdinand Michael van Mehren was a Danish Orientalist and philologist. Early life and education Mehren was born in Helsingør, the son of merchant Johann Friedrich van Mehren and Claudine Amalie Liebmann . He studied at the Universities of Copenhagen, Leipzig and Kiel, obtaining his doctorate in 1845. In Leipzig he was a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer , and in Kiel he studied under Justus Olshausen .

#4609

Friedrich von Spiegel

1820 - 1905 (85 years)

Friedrich Spiegel was a German orientalist. He was one of the pioneers in the field of Iranian philology. Biography He was born in Kitzingen, studied at Erlangen, Leipzig, and Bonn, then spent five years in the libraries of Copenhagen, Paris, London, and Oxford, and from 1849 to 1890 was professor of oriental languages in the University of Erlangen. His early studies on Pali and the publication of the Kammavâkya and the Ancedota Palica did much for the knowledge of southern Buddhism. They were quickly followed by his researches on Zoroastrianism and the Avesta. The edition of the greater p...

#4610

Eric Wollencott Barnes

1907 - 1962 (55 years)

Eric Wollencott Barnes was an American educator, diplomat, actor, and writer. Education Barnes attended public schools in Little Rock. He entered UCLA in 1925, and in 1926 transferred to L'École des Sciences Politiques in Paris, where he graduated in 1930. He received a diplome d'études superieures from the University of Paris in 1931, followed by a fellowship at the Sorbonne, then obtained a teaching post at the University of Paris in 1932.

#4611

Winfield Scott Chaplin

1847 - 1918 (71 years)

Winfield Scott Chaplin was the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1891 until 1907. Early life Winfield Scott Chaplin was born in Maine in 1847 and graduated from West Point in 1870 as a second lieutenant of artillery. After resigning in 1872, Chaplin held a number of academic positions in civil and mechanical engineering; including Maine State College, Imperial University in Tokyo, Harvard University, and Union College. He served as dean of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard for six years before being named Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis at age 43...

#4612

John Robertson

1787 - 1873 (86 years)

John Robertson was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from the U.S. state of Virginia. He was the brother of Thomas B. Robertson and Wyndham Robertson. Biography Born at "Bellefield" near Petersburg, Virginia, Robertson completed preparatory studies and graduated from the College of William and Mary. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Richmond, Virginia. He served as Attorney General of Virginia before being elected an Anti-Jacksonian and Whig to the United States House of Representatives to fill a vacancy, serving from 1834 to 1839. Afterwards, Roberts...

#4613

Jesse E. Moorland

1863 - 1940 (77 years)

Jesse Edward Moorland was an American minister, community executive, civic leader and book collector. Born in Coldwater, Ohio, he was the only child of a farming family. Moorland attended Northwestern Normal University in Ada, Ohio. Then he moved to Washington D. C., where he attended the Theological department of Howard University and earned his master's degree in 1891. He was ordained a Congressional minister. That same year he was hired as secretary of the Washington D.C. branch of the YMCA.

#4614

F. W. S. Craig

1929 - 1989 (60 years)

Frederick Walter Scott Craig was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of the standard reference books covering United Kingdom Parliamentary election results. He originally worked in public relations, compiling election results in his spare time which were published by the Scottish Unionist Party. In the late 1960s he launched his own business as a publisher of reference books, and also compiled various other statistics concerning British politics.

#4615

William Hodge Mill

1792 - 1853 (61 years)

William Hodge Mill was an English churchman and orientalist, the first principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta and later Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. Life He was son of John Mill, a native of Dundee, by his wife Martha née Hodge, and was born 18 July 1792 at Hackney, Middlesex. He was educated chiefly in private under Thomas Belsham. In 1809 he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. as sixth wrangler in 1813, was elected Fellow in 1814, and proceeded M.A. in 1816. He took deacon's orders in 1817, and priest's in the following year, and continuing in residenc...

#4616

Niels Krag

1568 - 1602 (34 years)

Niels Krag , was a Danish academic and diplomat. Krag was a Doctor of Divinity, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, and historiographer Royal. Mission to Scotland In August 1589 the Danish council decided that Peder Munk, Breide Rantzau, Dr Paul Knibbe, and Niels Krag would accompany Anne of Denmark, the bride of James VI, to Scotland. After several mishaps, poor weather, and "contrary winds" they decided to stay at Oslo over the winter.

#4617

John Richardson

1740 - 1795 (55 years)

John Richardson , FAS of Wadham College, Oxford, was the editor of the first Persian-Arabic-English dictionary in 1778–1780. His seminal work on Persian grammar, written in collaboration with Sir William Jones, was noteworthy amongst the early works on this subject; and it remains significant in the context of that philological foundation from which all subsequent grammatical studies were to evolve.

#4618

Joseph Dacre Carlyle

1758 - 1804 (46 years)

Rev Joseph Dacre Carlyle FRSE was an English orientalist. He gained church preferment and travelled widely. Carlyle worked with Sarah Hodgson to create a version of the Old Testament printed in Arabic.

#4619

Robert Lubbock Bensly

1831 - 1893 (62 years)

Robert Lubbock Bensly was an English orientalist. Life He was born at Eaton, near Norwich, on 24 August 1831. He was the second son of Robert Bensly and Harriet Reeve. He was educated at first in a Baptist private school in Norwich founded by the father of John Sherren Brewer. His school fellows included the headmaster's grandson Henry William Brewer, later a notable architectural illustrator, the clinician and physiologist Sydney Ringer and the architect Edward Boardman.

#4620

Gustav Bickell

1838 - 1906 (68 years)

Gustav Bickell was a German orientalist. He was born in Kassel, and died in Vienna. His father, Johann Wilhelm Bickell, was professor of canon law at the University of Marburg, and died as minister of justice of Hesse-Kassel . In 1862 Gustav became Privatdozent of Semitic and Indo-Germanic languages at Marburg, but the following year he went in the same capacity to the University of Giessen. The finding of a clear testimony in favour of the Immaculate Conception in the hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, which he was transcribing in London, led him to enter the Catholic Church, 5 Nov., 1865. After h...

#4621

Eberhard Schrader

Eberhard Schrader

1836 - 1908 (72 years)

Eberhard Schrader was a German orientalist primarily known for his achievements in Assyriology. Biography He was born at Braunschweig, and educated at Göttingen under Ewald. In 1858 he won a university prize for a treatise on the Ethiopian languages, and in 1863 became professor of theology at the University of Zürich. Subsequently, he occupied chairs at Giessen and Jena , and finally became professor of Oriental languages at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin in 1878. Though he turned first to biblical research, his chief achievements were in the field of Assyriology, in which he was a pioneer in Germany and acquired an international reputation.

#4622

Ernst Kuhn

1846 - 1920 (74 years)

Ernst Wilhelm Adalbert Kuhn was a German Indologist and Indo-Europeanist. He was the son of philologist Adalbert Kuhn. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen, receiving his doctorate in 1869 with a dissertation-thesis on Kaccāyana, the grammarian, Kaccâyanappakaraṇae specimen. In 1871 he obtained his habilitation for Sanskrit and comparative grammar at the University of Halle, and during the following year relocated to Leipzig as a lecturer. In 1875, he became a full professor at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1877 to 1917 served as a professor of Aryan philology and c...

#4623

Friedrich Dieterici

Friedrich Dieterici

1821 - 1903 (82 years)

Friedrich Heinrich Dieterici was a German orientalist and historian. Biography He studied at the universities of Halle and Berlin, traveled extensively in the East, and in 1850 was appointed associate professor of Arabic literature at the University of Berlin.

#4624

Andreas Dudith

1533 - 1589 (56 years)

Andreas Dudith , also András Dudith de Horahovicza , was a Hungarian nobleman of Croatian and Italian origin, bishop, humanist and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hungary. Dudith was born in Buda, capital city of the Kingdom of Hungary to a Hungarian noble family with Croatian origins. His father, Jeromos Dudits, was a Croatian and his mother was an Italian. He studied in Wrocław, Italy, Vienna, Brussels and Paris.

#4625

Esteban Gil Borges

1879 - 1942 (63 years)

Esteban Gil Borges , was a Venezuelan politician, diplomat, writer and university professor. Biography Esteban Gil Borges was born in 1879 in Caracas, Venezuela. He worked as a lawyer, diplomat, and politician. He was the 147th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela from 2 January 1919 until 7 July 1921.

#4626

Henry King

1790 - 1861 (71 years)

Henry King was an American politician who served as a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1831 to 1833 and Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1833 to 1835.

#4627

Anthony Ashley Bevan

1859 - 1933 (74 years)

Anthony Ashley Bevan, FBA was a British orientalist. He was the son of the banker Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, and his second wife, the translator and poet Frances Bevan. Frances was the author of the famous book Three Friends of God, and Songs of Eternal Life.

#4628

Jacob Goldenthal

1815 - 1867 (52 years)

Jacob Goldenthal was an academic orientalist born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied ancient languages at the University of Leipzig and received his Ph.D. there in 1845. Publications Al-Ghazalis Meisan al-Almal A German translation of Criterion of ActionTodrosis hebräische Bearbeitung des Averroesschen Kommentars zu Aristoteles' Rhetorik Kalonymi apologia Maimonidis Nissim ben Jakobs Clavis talmudica Rieti und Marini oder Dante und Ovid in hebräischer Umkleidung

#4629

Zeno

500 - 500 (0 years)

Flavius Zeno was an influential general and politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, of Isaurian origin, who served as magister militum per Orientem, and became consul and patricius. Biography Zeno was of Isaurian origin and had a brother, who died before 448.

#4630

Alfred Gilmore

1812 - 1858 (46 years)

Alfred Gilmore was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Biography Alfred Gilmore was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1833. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Butler.

#4631

James Monroe

1799 - 1870 (71 years)

James Monroe was an American politician who served as the United States representative from New York . He was the nephew of President James Monroe. Early life James Monroe was born in Albemarle County, Virginia on September 10, 1799. He was born to Ann Monroe and Andrew Augustine Monroe . His father was the older brother of his namesake and future president, James Monroe .

#4632

Sylvester Gilbert

1755 - 1846 (91 years)

Sylvester Gilbert was a United States representative from Connecticut. He was born in Hebron, Connecticut. He pursued classical studies and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1775. Later, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in November 1777, and commenced practice in Hebron.

#4633

Henry Albert Schultens

Henry Albert Schultens

1749 - 1793 (44 years)

Hendrik Albert Schultens was a third generation Dutch linguist. Life Shultens was born in Herborn. He was the son of Jan Jacob Schultens, orientalist and professor at Leiden University and Suzanna Amalia Schramm, and was the grandson of Albert Schultens. Schultens studied orientalism in Leiden. He traveled to England and studied at Wadham College, Oxford, where he became Magister Artium, honoris causa, in 1773. He became professor in Eastern languages, first in Amsterdam, and then in Leiden. He married Catharina Elisabeth de Sitter.

#4634

Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti

1772 - 1841 (69 years)

Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti was a German theologian. Life He was born at Eschenbergen, near Gotha, Augusti was of Jewish descent, his grandfather having been a converted rabbi. He was educated at the gymnasium of Gotha and the University of Jena. At Jena he studied oriental languages, of which he became a professor there in 1803. Subsequently, he was professor of theology , and for a time rector, at the University of Breslau. In 1819 he transferred as a professor of theology to the University of Bonn. In 1828 he was appointed chief member of the consistorial council at Koblenz. There he was afterwards made director of the Rhenish Consistory of the Evangelical Church in Prussia.

#4635

Carl Anton Baumstark

1872 - 1948 (76 years)

Carl Anton Joseph Maria Dominikus Baumstark was a German Orientalist, philologist and liturgist. His main area of study was Oriental liturgical history, its development and its influence on literature, culture and art. His grandfather, Anton Baumstark , was a noted philologist.

#4636

Ludolf Krehl

1825 - 1901 (76 years)

Christoph Ludolf Ehrenfried Krehl was a German orientalist born in Meissen. Biography From 1843 Krehl studied theology and philology at the University of Leipzig, where he attended lectures by Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer on Arabic, Persian and Turkish philology. In 1846 he continued his education at the University of Tübingen as a student of Heinrich Ewald. Later on, he embarked on study trips to Gotha, Paris and Saint Petersburg.

#4637

Jakob Christmann

1554 - 1613 (59 years)

Jakob Christmann was a German Orientalist who also studied problems of astronomy. Life Christmann, a Jew who converted before 1578 to Christianity, studied Orientalistics at the University of Heidelberg's Collegium Sapientiae and became teacher at the Dionysianum. He followed humanist Thomas Erastus to Basel and continued his study tour in Breslau, Vienna and Prague.

#4638

Vasily Mikhaylovich Alekseyev

1881 - 1951 (70 years)

Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev was an eminent Soviet sinologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1902 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg University and became a professor. He also worked in the British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Museum für Völkerkunde, Musée Guimet etc.

#4639

Kōjirō Yoshikawa

Kōjirō Yoshikawa

1904 - 1980 (76 years)

was a Japanese sinologist noted for his studies of Chinese history and Classical Chinese literature, especially the Book of Documents and Analects of Confucius. Yoshikawa was awarded many honors for his scholarship, including membership in the Japan Art Academy and he was named a Person of Cultural Merit. In 1969 he was awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien for the entire body of his work.

#4640

August Müller

1848 - 1892 (44 years)

August Müller was a German orientalist. Biography He was educated in classical philology and Semitic studies at the universities of Halle and Leipzig, where he was a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. In 1874, he became an associate professor, and in 1882 accepted the post of professor of oriental philology at the University of Königsberg. In 1890, he returned as a professor to the University of Halle.

#4641

Friedrich August Rosen

Friedrich August Rosen

1805 - 1837 (32 years)

Friedrich August Rosen was a German Orientalist, brother of Georg Rosen and a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He studied in Leipzig, and from 1824 in Berlin under Franz Bopp. He was briefly professor of oriental literature at the University of London and became secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1831.

#4642

Friedrich Heinrich Hugo Windischmann

1811 - 1861 (50 years)

Friedrich Heinrich Hugo Windischmann was a German orientalist, exegete and Catholic leader. Biography Son of the philosopher Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann, he studied philosophy, classical philology, and Sanskrit at Bonn, theology at Bonn and Munich, and Armenian with the Mekhitarists in Venice. After receiving a doctorate in theology at Munich on 2 January 1836, he was ordained as a priest on the following 13 March; seven months later he became vicar of the cathedral and secretary of Archbishop Gebsattel of Munich. In 1838 he was professor-extraordinary of canon law and New Testament e...

#4643

August Conrady

1864 - 1925 (61 years)

August Conrady was a German sinologist and linguist. From 1897 he was professor at the University of Leipzig. Conrady first studied classical philology, comparative linguistics and Sanskrit; he continued with Tibetan and Chinese language. He put forward his research findings in 1896 on the relationship between the prefix and tones in the Sino-Tibetan languages, in the work Eine Indo-Chinesische causative-Denominativ-Bildung und ihr Zusammenhang mit den Tonaccenten .

#4644

H. A. R. Gibb

1895 - 1971 (76 years)

Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb , known as H. A. R. Gibb, was a Scottish historian and Orientalist. Early life and education Gibb was born on Wednesday, 2 January 1895, in Alexandria, Egypt, to Alexander Crawford Gibb, the son of John Gibb of Gladstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and Jane Ann Gardner of Greenock, Scotland. His father died in 1897, following which his mother took up a teaching position in Alexandria. Hamilton returned to Scotland for his formal education at the age of five: first, four years of private tuition, after which he started at the Royal High School, Edinburgh in 1904, staying until 1912.

#4645

Samuel Landauer

1846 - 1937 (91 years)

Samuel Landauer was a German Jewish orientalist and librarian. He received his education at the Yeshiva of Eisenstadt , the gymnasium of Mainz, and the universities of Leipzig, Strasbourg, and Munich . In 1875, he became privatdozent of Semitic languages at the University of Strasbourg, and was appointed librarian there in 1884. In 1894, he received the title of Professor.

#4646

Paul Fauconnet

1874 - 1938 (64 years)

Paul Fauconnet was a French sociologist who is best known as a contributor to the L'Année Sociologique. Fauconnet aggregated in philosophy in 1892 and earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1895. He also earned a further doctorate in law in 1920, although his interest in the law was purely scholarly and he never practiced as a lawyer. He became a professor at the faculty of letters in 1907 at the University of Toulouse and later chargé de cours at the faculty of letters in 1921 in Paris, obtaining a chair in 1932. His dissertation was entitled La responsabilité: Etude de sociologie . It adopt...

#4647

Kingman Brewster Jr.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

1919 - 1988 (69 years)

Kingman Brewster Jr. was an American educator, academic and diplomat. He served as the 17th President of Yale University and as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Early life Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, the son of Florence Foster , a 1907 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, and Kingman Brewster Sr., a 1906 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and a 1911 graduate of the Harvard Law School. He was a direct lineal descendant of Elder William Brewster , the Mayflower passenger, Pilgrim colonist leader, and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony, through his son Jonathan Brewster.

#4648

W. G. S. Adams

1874 - 1966 (92 years)

William George Stewart Adams was a Scottish political scientist and public servant who became principal of an Oxford College and a leader in the fields of voluntary service and rural regeneration. Background and education George Adams was born in Auchingramont Road, Hamilton, the younger son of John and Margaret Adams, by whom he was given "an intellectual and somewhat evangelistic upbringing". His father was Rector of St John's Grammar School and had founded Gilbertfield House School, both in Hamilton. His mother came from a Glasgow mercantile family and was a niece of the social activist...

#4649

Walter Alexander Riddell

1881 - 1963 (82 years)

Walter Alexander Riddell was a Canadian civil servant, diplomat, and academic. He was the Canadian Advisory Officer to the League of Nations from 1924 to 1937. Born in Stratford, Ontario to a single working parent, Riddell was the deputy minister of the Department of Labour for the Government of Ontario. From 1920 to 1925, he was the Canadian delegate to the International Labour Organization in Geneva. From 1924 to 1937, he was the Canadian Advisory Officer to the League of Nations. From 1940 to 1946, he was the Canadian High Commissioner to New Zealand. He later taught International Relation...

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