LUPTON, Walter James Edwin. Clapham, Surrey 30.5.1871 — Oxford 27.11.1955. British Civil Servant in India. Educated at City of London School, studies at London University and New College, Oxford (B.A. 1893). Joined I.C.S. and served in United Provinces in 1895-1920. Later Secretary of the Oxfordshire Division Medical War Committee 1939-47.…
LUMSDEN, Matthew. 1777 — Cheltenham, Gloucester (B) or Tooting Common, Surrey (G & W) 18.3. or 31.3.1835. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Oriental Scholar in India. Son of John L., cousin of —> Harry Burnett L. Educated at King’s College, Old Aberdeen. Came to India in 1794 in E.I.C.’s service,…
LULIUS VAN GOOR, Maria Elisabeth. Gouda 5.9.1866 — Leiden 2.7.1929. Dutch Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Daughter of Dirk L. van G. (1842–1882), a publisher, who supported women’s higher education, and Elisabeth Romijn. In 1881-85 she was the first female student admitted to the Hogere Burger Highschool. But the father died in…
LÜDERS, Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Christian. Lübeck 25.6.1869 — Badenweiler, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald 7.5.1943. German Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Husband of —> Else Lüders. Son of a factory owner, Friedrich Lüders and Hedwig Heym, he went to school and matriculated in 1888 from Katharineum in Lübeck. After one term of Germanic studies at…
LÜDERS, Else (née Peipers). Göttingen 20.10.1880 — Berlin 13.3.1945. German Indologist. Wife of —> Heinrich Lüders. Daughter of David Peipers (1838–1912), Professor of Philosophy at Göttingen. From 1900 engaged to marry Heinrich Lüders, who also soon became her teacher in Sanskrit. After marriage she assisted her husband in his Mahābhārata…
LUDWIG, Alfred. Vienna 9.10.1832 — Prague 12.6.1912. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Prague. Son of Johannes L., a teacher of French, and Ludowika Köckh, grew up in Vienna, matriculated from Akademisches Gymnasium. From 1852 studies of classical philology, IE linguistics and Sanskrit at Vienna (under Boller) and in 1855-57 at Berlin…
LUDLOW, John Malcolm Forbes. Nimach, Madhya Pradesh 8.3.1821 — 17.10.1911. Sir. British Lawyer and Historian. Son of colonel John L. of I.C.S., educated at Merchant Taylor’s School and College Bourbon in Paris. In 1843 he was called to the bar from Lincoln’s Inn and practised as Conveyancer until 1874. In…
LUBER, Alois Adam August. Salzburg 28.8.1847 — Salzburg 20.6.1924. Austrian Teacher and Classical Scholar. Son of civil servant Ludwig Luber (d. 1850) and Josefa Wirl. Ph.D. 1870. Gymnasium Professor in Salzburg and from c. 1874 in Görz (now Gorizia), teaching history and geography. From 1881 Bezirksschulinspektor in St.Johann im Pongau…
LUBAC, Henri-Marie Joseph Sonier de. Cambrai 20.2.1896 — Paris 4.9.1991 (when 95). S.J. French Catholic Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Cardinal of the Roman Church. Sn of a banker, of ancient nobility, schooled by Jesuits in Lyon, where the family had moved in 1898. Joined Jesuit order 1913 and…
LOVEJOY, Arthur Oncken. Berlin 10.10.1873 — Baltimore 30.12.1962. U.S. Philosopher. Son of W.W.L., a physician who after his wife’s suicide turned into a clergyman, lost early his mother, Sara Oncken (d. 1875). Studied philosophy at Berkeley and Harvard (William James), but never completed a Ph.D. Taught short periods at different…