MARSTRANDER, Carl Johan Sverdrup. Kristiansand 26.11.1883 — Oslo 23.12.1965. Norwegian Linguist and Celtologist. Professor in Oslo. Son of Frederick Petersen Marstrander and Kristiane Henriette Sørensdatter Brodtkorp (Sverdrup). Matriculated 1902 from Kristiansand, 1902-03 on the army. In 1903-07 studied Classics, IE and Celtic languages at Oslo (S. Bugge, A. Torp). In…
MÄNCHEN-HELFEN, Otto Johann/John. Vienna 26.6.1894 — Berkeley 29.1.1969. Austrian Sinologist and Central Asian Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Berkeley. Son of Johann Helfen (1859–1938), a book printer, and Agnes Katharina Mänchen (1867–1944). After school in Vienna began studies at Vienna, but soon had to serve in WW I, then…
LEARNED, Dwight Whitney. Canterbury, Conn. 12.10.1848 — Claremont, co. Los Angeles, Calif. 19.3.1943. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Theologian. Son of Rev. Dr. Robert Coit Learned (1817–1867) and Sarah Birdseye Whitney (1824–1864), lost his mother when 16. Studies at Williston Seminary and from 1867 at Yale College (B.A. 1870) and University.…
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”.…
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.…
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…
HUTCHISON, John. Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1848 — Chamba 24.7.1936 (when 88). British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Peter Hutchinson and Anne Mcghie. Studied medicine in Edinburgh. Medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in the Punjab. Graduated in 1871 and left for India, where he spent the rest of his…
HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth. Galesburg, Illinois 16.9.1876 — New Haven 17.10.1947. U.S. Geographer and Central Asian Explorer. Graduated from Beloit College 1897. M.A. 1902 Harvard. Ph.D. 1909 Yale. He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey (1897-1901), then accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905-1906) expeditions to Central Asia, in 1909 led an expedition…
HOLLINGBERY, William. 1767? — 1809. British Civil Servant in India. Served in Hyderabad residence, 1799-1801 participated in Malcolm’s embassy to Persia. Publications: A History of His Late Highness Nizam Alee Khaun, Soobah of the Dekhan. 9+22+58+73+38 p. Calcutta 1805. – A Journal of Observations, Made During the British Embassy to…