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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Blavatsky    
First Name(s)  Helena Petrovna    
Year of Birth  1831    
Year of Death  1891    
Entry  Born at Ekaterinoslav : daughter of Colonel Peter Hahn, of a noble family of Mechlenburg, settled in Russia : married at 17 a husband of 60, but they soon separated : she travelled widely, in Europe, America and Asia, round the Cape to Bombay : after an unsuccessful attempt to enter Tibet, via Nipal, she entered it in disguise in 1855, via Kashmir, was lost in the desert and brought back to the frontier : after numerous adventures and further travels in India, she was in the United States in 1873 and for 6 years in N. York, becoming a naturalized American : she studied spiritualism, and in 1875 founded, with Colonel Olcott, the Theosophical Society : wrote books and pamphlets in support of her theories : settled in London, 1887 : brought out a magazine, Lucifer, the Light-bringer : wrote The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, 1888, and The Key of Philosophy, 1889 : died in London, May 8, 1891.     
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