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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
| Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surnames | Goblet D'Alviella | | | First Name(s) | Count Eugene | | | Year of Birth | 1846 | | | Entry | Born Aug. 10, 1846, at Brussels : son of Count Louis Goblet d'Alviella, member of the Belgian House of Representatives : educated at Brussels and Paris : took the degrees of D.Polit.Science, D.LL. and D.Phil., at Brussels : called to the bar : became a member of the Provincial Council of Brabant, 1872 : managed, 1874-92, the Revue de Belgique : in 1875, accompanied H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to India, as special correspondent of the Independence Belge : afterwards visited Sikhim and the Buddhist monasteries on the Tibet frontier : sat in the Belgian House of Representatives, 1878-84 : member of the Senate, 1892 : Secretary of the Senate since 1900 : appointed Professor of the History of Religions in 1884, and still occupies this post : Hibbert Lecturer at Oxford and London, 1891 : 1896-8, Rector of the University of Brussels : 1897, elected President of the Royal Academy of Belgium : Senator of Belgium, 1894 : Secretary of the Senate since 1900 : author of works dealing with both the ancient civilization and the modern development of India under British rule : Inde et Himalaya ; Souvenirs de Voyage, 1877, 1880 ; L'Histoire religieuse chez les Anglais, les Americains, et les Hindous, 1884 ; La Migration des Symboles, 1891 ; Ce que L'Inde doit a la Grece, 1897 : and numerous articles on the people and religions of India in the Revue de Belgique, Revue des Deux Mondes, etc. : M.R.A.S. : LL.D. of the University of Glasgow, 1901. |
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