KREYENBORG, Clemens August Herman(n). Damme, Oldenburg 13.11.1889 — Münster 9.5.1963. German Indologist. Librarian in Münster. Son of Carl Anton Kreyenborg, a judge. Matriculated 1910 from Münster, then studies of Classics and IE linguistics at Münster and Berlin, continued after voluntary war service (1914-18). Ph.D. 1921 Münster (R. Schmidt). From 1922…
KREYENBORG, Elisabeth. 1897 — 19??. German Librarian, former Student of Indology, probably related with —> H. Kreyenborg. Ph.D. Münster 1930. Worked in Münster as teacher and librarian, from 1943 to c. 1950 Librarian of D.M.G. in Halle. Publications: Diss. Der XXV. Gesang des Śrīkaṇṭhacaritam des Maṅkha. Ein Beitrag zur altindischen…
KRETSCHMER, Paul Wilhelm. Berlin 2.5.1866 — Vienna 9.3.1956. German IE Scholar in Austria. Professor in Vienna. Son of the history and portrait painter Albert Kretschmer (1825–1891) and Minna Obenauf. Studies of IE (J. Schmidt) and classical philology (H. Diels) at Berlin, Ph.D. there 1889. From 1891 PD at Berlin. In…
KRESSLER, August Eduard Oscar. Konstanz 16.4.1876 — Hongkong 1970. German Japanologist, began as Indologist. Son of a postal officer, educated in Aachen, Colmar (Alsace) and Wernigerode. From 1896 studies of Sanskrit, Latin and Oriental philology at Leipzig (Windisch, et al.), one term at Geneva, then at Strassburg (E. Leumann). Ph.D.…
KRČEK, Franciszek. Lemberg (L’viv) 8.10.1869 — Novgorod, Russia 12.3.1916. Polish Slavist also interested in IE. Docent in Lemberg (L’viv). Son of a Czech father and Polish mother. Studied at Lemberg, Ph.D. 1893. Further studies at Prague (Gebauer, Zubatý), Leipzig and Berlin. PD 1909 Lemberg, in Slavonic Philology. Also taught at…
KRAUSE, Wolfgang. Steglitz (now in Berlin) 18.9.1895 — Göttingen 14.8.1970. German IE, Germanic and Tocharian Scholar. Professor in Königsberg and Göttingen. Son of a Gymnasium Professor, Arnold Krause (1855–1902), and Else Herold. From 1914 IE studies at Berlin (W. Schulze) and Göttingen (Ed. Hermann), also Classics (Wilamowitz-Möllendorf), Celtology (Pokorny) and…
KRAUSE, Wilhelm. Freiburg i.Br. 6.12.1910 — Vienna 12.5.1976. German Classical Philologist in Austria. After school in Freiburg and Feldkirch studied from 1929 at Vienna classical, IE and Iranian philology and Indology. From 1932 worked as Librarian at Indogermanisches Institut. Ph.D. 1936 Vienna. In 1937 he passed Lehramtsprüfung in Latin and…
KRAUSE, Charlotte. Halle 18.5.1895 — Gwalior 27.1.1980. German Indologist in India. Daughter of Hermann Krause, a merchant, and his wife Anna. Matriculated 1914 from Dessau. From 1916 studied science at Marburg, soon also philosophy and history, at Leipzig, Tübingen and Berlin. Studies of Indology, German and linguistics at Tübingen (Garbe),…
KRASNODEMBSKIJ, Valerij Evgen’evič. Kagul, Moldova 2.12.(15.12.)1907 — Penza (or Leningrad?) 16.5.1942. Russian Indologist. Son of a lawyer. After studies at Odessa worked in Tashkent. From 1926 studied Indology at Leningrad. Graduated 1930 from Leningradskij Vostočnyj Institut. Docent 1935. In 1932-38 taught at Leningradskij Vostočnyj Institut and in 1934-42 at Leningrad…
KRAMRISCH, Stella (married Neményi). Nikolsburg (now Mikulov), Moravia 29.5.1898 — Malvern, Pa. 31.8.1993. Austrian Art Historian in India and the U.S.A. Professor in Calcutta and Philadelphia. Born in Austro-Hungarian Moravia, daughter of pharmacist Isidor Kramrisch and his wife Berta. The family moved to Vienna when she was eight or ten…