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Simon Everard Digby was born in India in 1932 and was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He travelled in India and Pakistan before returning to England to complete a PhD at the School of Oriental and Africa Studies. He returned to India in 1961-1962 and continued to make trips to India throughout his life. He was Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1968-1984. In 1972 he was appointed to a post in the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He also taught and examined post-graduate students at SOAS. He died in Delhi in 2010 from pancreatic cancer.

Bernhard Dorn was a German orientalist. He specialized in the history and the languages of Iran, Russia and Afghanistan. He studied theology and philology at the universities of Halle and Leipzig. At Leipzig University Dorn worked for a while as a lecturer before becoming a professor of oriental languages at Kharkov University (1829–35). In 1835 he relocated to St. Petersburg as a professor of history and geography in the Asiatic department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He taught Sanskrit and Pashtu at St. Petersburg University. In 1839 he became an adjunct at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he eventually attained the level of academician in 1852. He was appointed director of the Asiatic Museum in 1842 and director of the Ethnographic Museum in 1855.