Koenraad Elst

Koenraad Elst

male, 50 years old
Koenraad Elst is a Belgian writer and orientalist (without institutional affiliation). He has authored fifteen books on topics related to Hinduism,...
William Jones

William Jones

male, deceased (1794)
Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 - April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his...
Heinrich Zimmer

Heinrich Zimmer

male, deceased (1943)
Heinrich Zimmer (1890 - 1943) was an Indologist and historian of South Asian art. He was born in Greifswald, Germany. Zimmer began his career...

Max Müller

male, deceased (1900)
Friedrich Max Müller, more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of Indian studies, who vi...
Asko Parpola

Asko Parpola

male
Asko Parpola is a professor emeritus of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in the Indus...
Georg Feuerstein

Georg Feuerstein

male
Dr. Georg Feuerstein (born 1947) is a well-known German-Canadian Indologist, and a Western authority on Yoga. Feuerstein moved to England to do his...
Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger

female, 68 years old
Wendy Doniger (born November 20 1940) is an American professor of religion, active in international religious studies since 1973. Much of her work...
John Muir

John Muir

male, deceased (1882)
John Muir, born 1810, Glasgow, Scotland, died, 1882, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a Scottish sanskritist. He arrived in India in 1828 as a civil...

Sylvain Lévi

male, deceased (1935)
Sylvain Lévi was an orientalist and indologist. Born in Paris, his book "Théâtre Indien" is an important work on the subject. Lévi also cond...

Swami Karpatri

male, deceased (1980)
Swami Karpatri (1905-1980; born as Har Narayan Ojha in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India) was a monk in the Hindu dashanami monastic tradition. His...