KAYE, John William. Acton (London) 3.6.1814 — London 24.7.1876. Sir. British Colonial Officer, Publisher and Historian in India. Son of Charles Kaye, a solicitor to the Bank of England, and Eliza Atkins. Educated at Eton and Addiscombe. Joined the Bengal Artillery and went to India in 1832/33. Retired from the…
KAYE, George Rusby. Leicester 1866 — Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1.7.1929. British Teacher and Indologist in India. Son of the elder George Rusby Kaye (1839–1895) and Lucy Emma Oliver. Educated at Wyggeston Grammar School in London and St. Mark’s College in Chelsea. In 188? he came to India as teacher, taught…
KAUFMANN, Walter. Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in Czechia) 1.4.1907 — Bloomington 9.9.1984. Czech German composer, conductor and Musicologist in the U.S.A. Born in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire of Jewish parents, Julius Jakob Kaufmann (d. 1938) and Josefine Antonia Wagner (d. 1954). After gymnasium studied music in Prague and Berlin, started…
KATENINA, Tat’jana Evgen’evna. Leningrad 20.6.1926 — 17.4.1987. Russian Indologist (Marathi & Hindi). Daughter of a civil servant, Evgenij Aleksandrovič Katenin, and his wife Anna Efimovna. Graduated 1949 from Oriental Faculty, Leningrad University. Kand. filol. nauk 1956. From 1948 until death taught at Leningrad University, Docent 1961. Married Georgij Vasil’evič Edunov.…
KARPUŠKIN, Boris Mihajlovič. Moscow 1.3.1925 — 25.9.1987. Russian Indologist, Specialist of Bengalī and Oṛiyā. Son of a worker. Graduated 1951 from Moscow Institut vostokovedenija. Kandidat filologičeskih nauk 1966. In 1961-74 naučnyj sotrudnik at Institut vostokovedenija of Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1974-89 (?) taught at Moscow International Insitute of…
KARPELÈS, Suzanne. Paris 17.3.1890 — Aurobindo Ashram in Vellore 7.11.1968. French Indologist (Buddhist Scholar). Her father, Jules Karpelès (a Greek [Jewish] merchant living in France) imported indigo from India, she spent part of her early life in Calcutta and spoke fluent Bengali. After studies in Paris under Lévi, Foucher and…
KAROW, Otto. Magdeburg 29.9.1913 — Bad Homburg 6.8.1992. German Sino-Japanologist. After school in Magdeburg started studies of Theology in 1932 at Giessen, soon became interested in Asian languages and moved to Leipzig and then Berlin. Beside Chinese and Japanese also studied Tibetan and Mongolian. Graduated 1935. Married 1936 and in…
KAROLIDES, Iordanes (Ἰορδάνης Καρολίδης, Iordanis Karolidis). Androniki (Cappadocia, now Endürlük in Turkey) 1837 — 1909. Greek Literate, Poet, Classical and Oriental scholar. Born in Cappadocia (Turkey) as the elder brother of the historian Paulos Karolides (1849–1930), he studied in Smyrna (İzmir) and Athens. Further studies in Germany with help of…
KARAMZIN, Nikolaj Mihajlovič. Znamenskoe estate, Mihailovka, Simbirsk govt. 12.12.(1.12.)1766 — St.Petersburg 2.6.(22.5.)1826. Russian Literate and Historian. Son of a retired officer, Mihail Egorovič Karamzin (1724–1783), and Ekaterina Petrovna Pazuhina (d. 1769), a noble family, but of modest means. Educated at home unti 14 and then in Moscow. Briefly in army…
KAPPUS, Carl. Frankfurt a. M. 6.3.1879 — Berlin (West) 17.5.1951. German Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Son of Heinrich Hector Kappus, a bank employee. After gymnasium in Frankfurt from 1898 studies of French and classics at Marburg (1899-1900 at Berlin), soon also comparative linguistics. Ph.D. 1903 Marburg (under…