KRAHE, Hans. Ückendorf, Kreis Gelsenkirchen 7.2.1898 — Tübingen 25.6.1965. German IE Scholar. Professor in Würzburg, Heidelberg and Tübingen. Son of a merchant Friedrich Krahe (1874–1954) and Mathilde Bertelmann. In 1915-18 served voluntary in the war, matriculated in 1919 in Gelsenkirchen. Studies of IE (under Sommer) and Romanistics at Jena. Ph.D.…
KRAAY, Colin Mackennal. London-Hampstead 23.3.1918 — Oxford 27.1.1982. British Numismatician, interested in Greek and Indo-Greek Numismatics. Son of rubber merchant Caspar Alexander Kraay (of Dutch origin) and Henrietta Agnes Mackennal. After Lancing College studied from 1937 at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1939 participated in excavations at Mycene. War service 1940-45…
KOWALEWSKI, Józef Szczepan (Joseph Étienne K., Russian Osip Mihajlovič Kovalevskij). Grodno (now Hrodna in Belarus) or Brzostowica Wield (Vialikaja Bierastavica) near Grodno 9.1.1801(28.12.1800) — Warsaw 20.10.(7.11.)1878. Polish Mongolian and Buddhist Scholar in Russia. Professor in Kazan and Warsaw. Born in a polonized family apparently of Belarusian origin, exact birth-place seems…
KOVÁŘ, Emanuel. Vlašim, dt. Benešov 11.1.1861 — Prague 14.7.1898. Czech Linguist and Ethnograph. After gymnasium in Benešov from 1879 studies of modern languages and general linguistics at Prague, Ph.D. 1883 and habilitation in general linguistics at Prague in 1886. In 1889-90 further studies at Leipzig and Berlin. Married Maria Strakova…
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KOSSOVIČ, Kaetan Andreevič. (Cajetan Kossovich). Polotsk (now Polack in Belarus) 2.(14.)5.1815 (or 1814, see Vigasin 2008, 94) — St.Petersburg 7.2.(26.1.)1883. (Bela-)Russian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in St.Petersburg. Son of a Belarusian priest, brother of —> Ignatij Kossovič (1808–1878). Educated in Polock and at Vitebsk Gymnasium. In 1836-39 studied classical philology and…
KOSSOVIČ, Ignatij Andreevič. gub. Vitebsk, Belarus 1808 — 15.(27.)10.1878. (Bela-)Russian Philologist, beside classical philology interested in Sanskrit.. Professor in Warsaw. Son of a Belarus priest, brother of —> Kaetan Kossovič (1814/15–1883). Studied theology at Vilnius (mag. theol. 1830) and classics at St.Petersburg (mag.filos.). In 1833-35 Professor of Greek at Belarusian…
KOSEGARTEN, Johann Gottfried Ludwig. Altenkirchen, Rügen 10.9.1792 — Greifswald 18.8.1860. German Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in Greiswald. Son of the minister and poet Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818) and Katharina Linde, born in what was then Swedish Pomerania. Educated at home. In 1808-12 studies of theology and history at Greifswald, where…
KORVIN-KRASINSKI, Cyrill von (also written Korwin-Kr., Polish Cyryl Krasiński, lay Jan Kasímierz hr. Korwin-Krasiński). Mszana Dolna (then Austria, now Poland) 5.9.1905 — Maria Laach 1992. German (born Polish) Theologian and Scholar of Symbolism and Tibetan Medicine. Son of Henryk Piotr Zygmunt Krasiński (1866–1928). Studies in Paris and Innsbruck. Ph.D. 1948…
KORSCH, Theodor (Fedor Evgen’evič KORŠ). Moscow 22.4.(4.5.)1843 — Moscow 16.2. (1.3.)1915. Russian IE Linguist and Sanskrit Scholar. Son of Evgenij Fëdorovič Korš, a journalist. After classical education started in 1860 studies of classical philology, Sanskrit (under Petrov), Arabic, Persian and Turkish at Moscow University. Candidate’s degree 1864, Magister 1868 Moscow,…