LAFONT, Gaston Eugène, comte de. 1862 — 19??. French Author. Publications: Grandes religions. Le buddhisme. Précédé d’un essai sur le védisme et le brahmanisme. 318 p. 1895. – Le mazdéisme, l’avesta. les grandes religions. 12+374 p. P. 1897. – Les origines de la nationalité française: essai sur les Celtes, les Kymris,…
LABOURT, Jérôme. Paris 2.3.1874 — Paris 27.11.1957. French Historian of early Christianity. From 1890 studies at Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, ordained priest 1897. Dr.théol. 1904. Then Director of Collège Stanislas in Paris, curator of Saint-Honoré d’Eylau, then “vicaire général du diocèse de Paris et chanoine de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris”.…
KREFTER, Friedrich. Emden 15.10.1898 — Bad Honnef near Bonn 25.1.1995. German Architect and Archaeologist, Specialist of Persepolis. Matriculated 1917 from Münster, then served in army. In 1919-22 studied architecture in Hannover and Braunschweig. Worked as architect in Berlin (under Herzfeld’s brother-in-law), soon (1923) Herzfeld’s Assistant. In 1928 to Iran with…
KLIMOV, Georgij Andreevič. Leningrad 23.9.1928 — Moscow 29.4.1997. Russian Linguist, Specialist of Karthvelian and Caucasian languages. From 1946-52 studied Caucasology at Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1955 Tbilisi. From 1954 worked in Linguistic Institute of Soviet/Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. filol. nauk 1965, Professor 1988. Married with his colleague Džoj Iosifovna…
KLEUKER, Johann Friedrich. Osterode am Harz 24.10.1749 — Kiel 31.5./1.6.1827. German Protestant theologian. Professor in Kiel. Son of shoemaker Johann Christian Kleuker (1715–1758) and Dorothea Magdalena Rose (1716–1770). From 1770 studied theology, philology and philosophy at Göttingen. Soon befriended with J. G. Herder. From 1778 secondary school principal in Osnabrück.…
KERŠNER-GORBUNOVA, Natal’ja Grigor’evna. Leningrad 2.3.1927 — 11.9.2000. Russian Archaeologist. Daughter of biologist Grigorij Petrovič Gorbunov (1894–1942) and Elena Mihajlovna Keršner, a music teacher. During WW II evacuated in Tashkent. From 1946 studied ancient history and archaeology of Central Asia in Leningrad. Graduated 1951 Leningrad. Kand. ist. nauk 1962. In 1951-58…
KEIPER, Philipp. Otterberg, Kaiserslauten 15.3.1855 — Regensburg 21.10.1927. German Teacher and Philologist. Studied classics and Iranian (Spiegel). Ph.D. 1877 Erlangen. Gymnasium teacher in Erlangen, Ludwigshafen and Zweibrücken. Publications: Diss. Die Perser des Aeschylos: als Quelle für altpersische Altertumskunde nebst Erklärung der darin vorkommenden altpersischen Eigennamen. 114 p. Erlangen 1877. – “Die…
KAMMENHUBER, Annelies. Hamburg 19.3.1922 — Munich 14.12.1995. German Linguist and Hittite Scholar. Professor in Munich. Daughter of Georg Kammenhuber, a master locksmith, and Maria Hawranek, a Roman Catholic family. Grew up in Hamburg. Studied at Hamburg English, Romance, Latin, Indology, IE linguistics and philosophy in 1940-50 (delayed by the war),…
KAHANE, Reuven. Beit Alfa (kibbutz) 1931 — Jerusalem 2003. Israeli Sociologist. Ph.D. 1970 Berkeley. Lecturer, then Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Married Orna Smirin, at least one son. Publications: Diss. Higher Education and Integrative Entrepreneurship: The Case of India. 1970. – The problem of political legitimacy…
JOHNSON, Willard Lyon. Des Moines, Iowa 30.5.1939 — Pauma Valley, Calif. 29.12.2006. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of the elder W. L. Johnson and Margerie Elta Hackenberg. Studies at Oberlin College (B.A. 1961) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1966), Ph.D. 1972 there in Indian Languages and…