Giuseppe Tucci

Giuseppe Tucci

male, deceased (1984)
Giuseppe Tucci (Macerata 5 June 1894-San Polo dei Cavalieri (Rome) 5 April 1984), was an Italian scholar of oriental cultures, specialising in...

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

male, deceased (1842)
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, also known as Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, born Csoma Sándor (March 27, 1784 - April 11, 1842), was a Hungarian philologist and or...
Sarat Chandra Das

Sarat Chandra Das

male, deceased (1917)
Sarat Chandra Das worked as a spy for the British, going on expeditions into Tibet to gather information on the Tibetans, Russians and Chinese....
Marcelle Lalou

Marcelle Lalou

female, deceased (1967)
Marcelle Lalou (1890-1967) was a 20th century French Tibetologist. Her major contribution to Tibetology is the cataloguing of the entire Pelliot...
Isaac Jacob Schmidt

Isaac Jacob Schmidt

male, deceased (1847)
Issac Jacob Schmidt (1779-1847) was an orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan. Born in Amsterdam, he spent most of his career in St....
Berthold Laufer

Berthold Laufer

male, deceased (1934)
Berthold Laufer (October 11, 1874 - September 13, 1934) was a German-American anthropologist, orientalist. Born in Cologne to a Jewish family,...

Jacques Bacot

male
Jacques Bacot was an explorer and pioneering French Tibetologist. He travelled extensively in India, western China, and the Tibetan border regions....
Charles Alfred Bell

Charles Alfred Bell

male, deceased (1945)
Sir Charles Alfred Bell (1870-1945) born in Calcutta was a British-Indian tibetologist. After joining the Indian Civil Service, he was appointed...
Rolf Stein

Rolf Stein

male, deceased (1999)
Rolf Alfred Stein (1911-1999) was a noted 20th century Sinologist and Tibetologist. He contributed in particular to the study of the Epic of King...

Hugh E. Richardson

male, deceased (2000)
Hugh E. Richardson (1905-2000) was a British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic work focused on the history of the Tibetan empire, and in...