LUNIN, Boris Vladimirovič. Geneva 18.7.1906 — Tashkent 18.10.2001. Russian Historian of Central Asia. Son of a lawyer, graduated in 1922 (?) from Arheologičeskij Institut in Rostov-na-Donu. War service 1941-45. Kand. ist. nauk 1956, Dr. ist. nauk 1967, Professor 1970. In 1925-41 “sotrudnik Donskogo obščestva arheologii, istorii, Sev.-Kavkazskogo kraevogo obščestva arheologii…
LUDOVICI, Leopold. Matara 11.4.1833 — 1???. Sri Lankan (with Dutch background) Journalist. Son of Johan Hendrik L. and Sophia Vilhelmina Veenekam. Worked in Ceylon Survey Department, later journalist, editor and finally proprietor of the Ceylon Examiner. Married 1859 Henrietta Ernst. Publications: Rice cultivation its past history and present condition; with suggestions for…
LUARD, Charles Eckford. Farnham, Surrey 11.11.1869 (or 11.10.) — Oxford 17.5.1927. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Colonel Charles Henry Luard and Amelia Juliana Martin. Educated in Marlborough, studies at Oxford (Christchurch), M.A. Cadet 1891, in 1892-98 served in Indian army, then in Indian Political Service until 1925. Superintendent…
LOW, Charles Rathbone. Dublin 30.10.1837 — Kensington, London 1918. British Naval Officer. Son of Major John Handcock Low (1805–1849) of Bengal Army and Sophie Hamilton. Born in Ireland he was just a few months old when parents went to India and he thus grew up there until seven, then educated…
LOUNSBERY, Grace Constant. New York 29.1.1876 — France 24.9.1964. U.S. Author, Playwright and Bauddha in France. Daughter of James L. (d. 1897) (?) and Grace Constant. Graduated from Bryn Mawr College. Founder (1929) and President of Amis du Bouddhisme. Unmarried. Publications: La Méditation bouddhique. 179 p. P. 1935; Buddhist Meditation in the…
LORENZ, Francisco Valdomiro (born František Vladimir Lorenc). Zbyslav, Bohemia 24.12.1872 — Dom Feliciano near Porto Alegre 24.5.1957. Brazilian (born Czech) Philosopher, Polyglot and Esperantist. He took early Esperanto, but as Austro-Hungarian state imagined it to be connected with socialism, he had to emigrate in 1891. Lived first in Rio de Janeiro, then…
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LOGAN, Alexander Cochrane. 1861? — 1910?. British Civil Servant in India. Probably son of the elder A.C.L. (mentioned in 1851/61) and his wife Margaret Hall, grew up in Mandeville, Jamaica. From 1879 (when 18) studies at Oxford (Balliol College). Joined I.C.S. in 1879 and from 1881 worked in Bombay Presidency,…
LOBSIGER-DELLENBACH, Marguerite (née M. D.). Geneva 9.7.1905 — Onex, Geneva 1993. Swiss Anthropologist and Ethnomusicologist. From 1922 secretary of Eugène Pittard. From 1947 Vice-Director and in 1952-63 Director of Musée d’ethnographie in Geneva (Pittard’s successor). Fieldwork in Nepal in 1952. Married 1936 George Lobsiger (1903–1988). Publications: Népal: Catalogue de la Collection d’Ethnographie…
LIACRE DE SAINT-FIRMIN, Julie. 18?? — 19??. Mme. French Physician (M.D.) interested in Indian Tradition. P. Masson-Oursel in his RHR review deems her book as unripe, it contains errors and many important sources are missing. Publications: Med. diss. Médecine et légendes bouddhiques de l’Inde. 120 p. P. 1916. Sources: No hints about her…