KAMPTZ, Joachim Friedrich Ludolf Bernhard Max Wilhelm Hermann Eggerd Kurt von. Hildesheim 19.8.1897 — 1941. German Student of Indology. Son of Prussian Oberregierungsrat Kurt von Kamptz (1857–1936) and Margarete von Uslar-Gleichen (1869-1937), of a family of ancient Mecklenburgian nobility (“Uradel”). Student of Schubring at Hamburg, Ph.D. 1929 there. He wrote an Indological dissertation (1929), praised by critics (Caillat), but nothing else. In the 1930s he worked as librarian in Wehrkr.-Bücherei IV in Dresden. Married in 1933 Dorothea Elisabeth Paetz (b. 1905).
Publications: Diss. Über die vom Sterbefasten handelnden älteren Paiṇṇa des Jaina-Kanons. 39 p. Hamburg 1929.
Sources: Diss. in Janert; Goth. Geneal. Taschenbuch. Uradl. Häuser. 1941; until 1994 the family is not included in the Geneal. Handbuch des Adels; Internet only knows the dissertation; death in ancestry.com.
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