- Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst is a Belgian writer and orientalist (without institutional affiliation). He has authored fifteen books on topics related to Hinduism, Indian history, and Indian politics. - William Jones
Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 - April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. - Heinrich Zimmer
Heinrich Zimmer (1890 - 1943) was an Indologist and historian of South Asian art. He was born in Greifswald, Germany. Zimmer began his career studying Sanskrit and linguistics at the University of Berlin where he graduated in 1913. Between 1920-24 he lectured at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald, moving to Heidelberg to fill the Chair of Indian Philology. In 1938 he was dismissed by the Nazis, … - Max Müller
Friedrich Max Müller, more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of Indian studies, who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on this subject, a discipline he introduced to the British reading public, and the "Sacred Books of the East", a massive, 50-volume set of English translations prepared under his direction, … - Asko Parpola
Asko Parpola is a professor emeritus of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in the Indus script. He is best known for his theory that the script encodes a Dravidian language. He is brother of the Akkadian language epigrapher Simo Parpola pdf. - Georg Feuerstein
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 postgraduate research at Durham University and subsequently lived for 23 years in the United States. Today, he is a resident of Canada and lives in Saskatchewan. Feuerstein is very prolific, having authored over 30 books on mysticism, Yoga, Tantra, and Hinduism. - Wendy Doniger
Wendy Doniger (born November 20 1940) is an American professor of religion, active in international religious studies since 1973. Much of her work is focused on translating, interpreting and comparing elements of Hinduism through modern contexts of gender, sexuality and identity. Her work on Hinduism has been clouded by controversy after it was strongly criticized by many in the Hindu diasporic community. - John Muir
John Muir, born 1810, Glasgow, Scotland, died, 1882, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a Scottish sanskritist. He arrived in India in 1828 as a civil servant in Bengal, and after finally rising to the position of judge in Fatehpur, left the Indian Civil Service in 1853 and returned to the United Kingdom. In India Muir wrote in English, Sanskrit and other Indian languages on a variety of topics, but especially on Christianity, … - Sylvain Lévi
Sylvain Lévi was an orientalist and indologist. Born in Paris, his book "Théâtre Indien" is an important work on the subject. Lévi also conducted some of the earliest analysis of Tokharian fragments discovered in east Turkestan. He was also an early opponent of the traditionalist author Rene Guenon, citing the latter's uncritical belief in a "Perennial philosophy", that is, a primal truth revealed directly to primitive humanity, … - Swami Karpatri
Swami Karpatri (1905-1980; born as Har Narayan Ojha in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India) was a monk in the Hindu dashanami monastic tradition. His ordained name as a monk was Hariharananda Saraswati, but he was popularly known by the name "Karpatri" ("he who uses his hand as a food vessel") Swami. He was married and the father of a baby daughter when he left home at age 17 to seek ordination as a sannyasi (monk). - Paul Deussen
Paul Deussen (January 7, 1845, Oberdreis-July 6, 1919, Kiel) was a German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. He was influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. He was also a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, Paul Deussen founded the Schopenhauer Society ("Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft"). He was the first editor, in 1912, of the scholarly journal Schopenhauer Yearbook ("Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch"). Deussen served in this position until his death. - Hermann Jacobi
Hermann Georg Jacobi was an eminent German Indologist. Jacobi was born in Köln on 1 February 1850. After leaving school he went to Berlin, where initially he studied mathematics, but later, probably under the influence of Albrecht Weber, switched to Sanskrit and comparative linguistics. He, however, obtained his Doctorate from Bonn. The subject of his thesis, written in 1872, was the origin of the term "hora" in Indian astrology. Jacobi was able to visit London in 1873, … - Horace Hayman Wilson
Horace Hayman Wilson (26 September, 1786 - 8 May, 1860) was an English orientalist, was born in London. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and went out to India in 1808 as assistant-surgeon on the Bengal establishment of the British East India Company. His knowledge of metallurgy caused him to be attached to the mint at Calcutta, where he was for a time associated with John Leyden. He became deeply interested in the ancient language and literature of India, … - James Tod
Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (1782-1835), a British officer, historian of Rajasthan and numismatist, was born on March 20 1782. He went to India as a cadet in the Bengal army of the British East India Company in 1799. He commanded the escort attached to the resident with Sindhia from 1812 to 1817. In the latter year he was in charge of the Intelligence Department which largely contributed to the break up of the Maratha Confederacy in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, … - Vishal Agarwal
Vishal Agarwal (b. 1970) is an Indian-American author. He holds Masters degrees in Materials Engineering and Business Administration, but writes on Indian philosophy, history and contemporary Indian society. He has criticized the Aryan Invasion Theory and Marxist historiography. He also gives talks and presentations on Hinduism and ancient India in High Schools, Colleges, old age homes, etc., upon invitation. He has been interviewed by the Minnesota Star, … - Albrecht Weber
Albrecht Weber (born 17 February 1825 in Breslau; died 30 November 1901) was a German indologist and historian. - Edwin Bryant
Edwin Bryant is an author and indologist. He graduated from Columbia University in 1997. He lectured on Indology at Harvard University and at Rutgers University, New Jersey. - Alain Daniélou
Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted western convert to, and adept of Shaivite Hinduism. His mother, Madeleine Clamorgan, was from an old family of the Norman nobility; a fervent Catholic, she founded a religious order for women teachers in civilian costume under the patronage of St. François-Xavier. - Monier Monier-Williams
Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1819-1899) studied, documented and taught Asian languages in England, and compiled one of the most widely-used Sanskrit-English dictionaries. Monier-Williams was the son of Colonel Monier Williams, surveyor-general in the Bombay presidency, and was born at Bombay on 12 November 1819. He was educated at University College, Oxford from 1837 and taught Asian languages at the East India Company College from 1844 until 1858, … - Robert Thurman
Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 4, 1941) is an American Buddhist writer and academic. He is the Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. He also is the co-founder and president of Tibet House New York and currently holds the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States. Thurman was born in New York City to Elizabeth Dean Farrar, a stage actress, and Beverly Reid Thurman, Jr., … - Jean Filliozat
Jean Filliozat was a French author. He studied medicine and was a physician between 1930 and 1947. He learned Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Tamil. He wrote some important works on the history of Indian medicine. - Richard Gombrich
Richard Francis Gombrich is a British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist Studies. He acted as the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2004. He is currently Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, Joint General Editor for the Clay Sanskrit Library, and a Governor of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. - Louis Renou
Louis Renou (1896-1966) was the pre-eminent French indologist of the 20th century. In particular, he studied Indian culture and Sanskrit. Only a part of his work has been translated to English. - Charles Wilkins
Sir Charles Wilkins (1749 - 1836), was an English typographer and Orientalist, notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, and as the creator of the first Devanagari typeface. He was born at Frome in Somerset in 1749, and trained as a printer. In 1770 he went to India as a printer and writer in the East India Company's service. His facility with language allowed him to quickly learn Persian and Bengali. - Stanley Wolpert
Stanley Wolpert is an American historian who specializes in the history of India and Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include: *"Nine hours to Rama" (Random House 1962) *"Morley and India, 1906-1910" (1967). - Pandurang Vaman Kane
Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane (Marathi: डॉ. पांडुरंग वामन काणे) (1880-1972) was a notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He was born in a conservative Chitpavan Brahmin family in the Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, India. - Klaus Klostermaier
Klaus Klostermaier (born 1933 in Munich, Germany) is a researcher on Hinduism and Indian history and culture. He obtained a PhD in philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1961, and another in "Ancient Indian History and Culture" from the University of Bombay in 1969. He was the Director of Academic Affairs at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies from 1997-1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, … - Edwin Arnold
Sir Edwin Arnold (June 10, 1832-March 24, 1904), was an English poet and journalist. Arnold was born at Gravesend, Kent, the son of a Sussex magistrate. He was the father of novelist Edwin Lester Arnold. He was educated at King's School, Rochester; King's College London; and University College, Oxford. He became a schoolmaster, at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and in 1856 went to India as principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona, … - Georg Bühler
Professor Johann Georg Bühler was a scholar of ancient Indian languages and law. Bühler was born to Rev. Johann G. Bühler in Borstel, Hanover, Germany, attended high school in Hanover where he mastered Greek and Latin, then university as a student of theology and philosophy at Göttingen, where he studied classical philology, Sanskrit, Zend, Persian, Armenian, and Arabic. - Frits Staal
Frits Staal (born 1930 in the Netherlands) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Staal studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, and continued with Indian philosophy and Sanskrit at Madras and Banaras. Staal was Professor of General and Comparative Philosophy in Amsterdam, 1962-67. - Gerasim Lebedev
Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev, also spelled "Herasim Steppanovich Lebedeff" (1749-1817), was a Russian adventurer, linguist, pioneer of Bengali drama, translator, musician and writer. He was a pioneer of Indology. - Hermann Oldenberg
Hermann Oldenberg was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel (1898) and Göttingen (1908). His 1881 study on Buddha, based on Pāli texts, popularized Buddhism and have remained continuously in print since their first publication. With T. W. Rhys Davids, he edited and translated into English three volumes of Vinaya texts, as two volumes of the Grhyasutras and two volumes of Vedic hymns on his own account, … - Moriz Winternitz
Moriz Winternitz was an eminent Austrian Orientalist. He received his earliest education in the gymnasium of his native town, and in 1880 entered the University of Vienna, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1886. In 1888 he went to Oxford, where until 1892 he assisted Max Müller in the preparation of the second edition of the "Rig-Veda" (4 vols., Oxford, 1890-92), collating manuscripts and deciding on the adoption of many new readings. - Ralph T. H. Griffith
Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, scholar of indology, B.A. of Queen's College was elected to the vacant Sanskrit Scholarship on Nov 24, 1849. He translated the Vedic scriptures into English. He also produced translations of other Sanskrit literature, including a verse version of the Ramayana and the Kumara Sambhava of Kalidasa. He held the position of principal at the Benares College in India. - Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Henry Thomas Colebrooke (June 15, 1765 - March 18, 1837) was an English orientalist. Henry Thomas Colebrooke, third son of Sir George Colebrooke, a Second Baronet, was born in London. He was educated at home; and when only fifteen he had made considerable attainments in classics and mathematics. From the age of twelve to sixteen he resided in France. In 1782 was appointed to a writership in India. - Ferdinand Kittel
Reverend Ferdinand Kittel (1832-1903) was a priest and indologist with the Basel Mission in south India and worked in Mangalore, Madikeri and Dharwad in Karnataka. He is most famous for his studies of the Kannada language and for producing the first ever Kannada-English dictionary of about 70,000 words in 1894. He also composed numerous Kannada poems. Many educational institutions have been named after him. - Thomas Burrow
Thomas Burrow (29 June 1909 - 8 June 1986) was an Indologist and the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1976. His work includes Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, The Problem of Shwa in Sanskrit and The Sanskrit Language. - D. P. Agrawal
D. P. Agrawal is an Indologist, archaeologist and author. He has published works on Indian archaeology, metallurgy and history. - Paul Thieme
Paul Thieme was a scholar of Vedic Sanskrit. He received his doctorate in Indology in 1928 in Göttingen, and habilitated there in 1932. From 1932 to 1935 he taught German and French at the University of Allahabad. He taught at Breslau from 1936 to 1940, and reveived tenure at Halle in 1941, but in the same year he was drafted to the German army, where he worked as an interpreter. In 1945, he was captured by U.S. troops in Württemberg. - Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
Srinivasan Kalyanaraman is an Indian writer. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines and worked for the Asian Development Bank before he retired in 1995, resolving "to devote the rest of my life to Indology studies", based at the C. P. Ramaswamy Institute of Indological Research, Mylapore, Madras. According to his entry in The International Directory of South Asia Scholars (IDSAS) of Columbia University, …
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