KOHLER, Josef. Offenburg 9.3.1849 — Berlin-Charlottenburg 3.8.1919. German Legal Scholar interested in India. Son of an elementary school teacher, the elder Josef Kohler (1808–1874) and Amalie Schmieder, educated in Offenburg and Rastatt. Studies of law at Heidelberg and Freiburg, promotion 1873. After some time as attorney in Mannheim became without…
KOEPPEN, Carl Friedrich (Karl Fr. Köppen). Seehausen, Altmark 26.4.1808 — Berlin 19.7.1863. German Philosopher interested in Buddhism. Son of a minister. After gymnasium in Stendal studies of theology at Berlin. Military service in artillery, then worked as schoolteacher in Königstädt. He was a Linkshegelian and a close friend of Marx,…
KNOWLES, James Hinton (James Hinton-Knowles?). Clerkenwell, London 1856 — Ely, Cambridgeshire 22.12.1943. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of John Hinton Knowles and Eliza Lane. He worked from 1876 for Church Missionary Society in Srinagar, Kashmir, where he was the director of Mission’s boys’ school 1880-91, and eagerly studied on…
KNAUER, Friedrich (Russian Fedor Ivanovič Knauèr, Ukrainian Fedir/Fridrih Ivanovič Knauer). Sarata, near Akkerman, Bessarabia (now Belgorod-Dnestrovski in Ukraine) 3.8.(15.8.)1849 — Tomsk 22.12.1918. Russian (German) Indologist in Ukraine. Professor in Kiev. Born in a family of German immigrants in Bessarabia (now Moldova), son of Samuel Johannes Knauer and Magdalena Aldinger. After…
KLUGE, Theodor. Nauen, Bezirk Potsdam 24.2.1880 — 1959 (or July 1958). German Linguist. Ph.D. 1906 Giessen. Further studies at Technische Hochschule in Braunschweig, diss. 1918 on old Georgian church architecture. At some stage also studied medicine. Private scholar in Berlin, known as Caucasologist and a specialist of Georgian. Member of…
KLUGE, Friedrich. Köln 21.6.1856 — Freiburg i.Br. 21.5.1926. German Germanist also interested in IE Linguistics. Son of Karl Kluge (d. 1891) and Karolina Schmitz. Gymnasium in Höxter and Soest. From 1874 studies of comparative, classical and modern linguistics at Leipzig (Leskien, Curtius, et al.), Strassburg (Hübschmann et al.) and Freiburg.…
KLEMM, Robert Kurt. Bautzen, Sachsen 16.4.1852 — Berlin-Lichterfelde 31?.3.1908. German Bookseller and Scholar. Son of Robert Klemm (1821–1862), a merchant, and his wife Marie Amalie. Until 1888 worked as bookseller in Zürich. In 1889-93 studies of Sanskrit, Avesta and IE at Berlin under Weber, Geldner and J. Schmidt. Ph.D. 1894…
KLEMENC (Klementz), Dmitrij Aleksandrovič. Gorjaino, gub. Samara 14.12.1848 — Moscow 8.1.1914. Russian Central Asian Scholar and Traveller. Born in a land owner family belonging to minor nobility. Educated in Samara and Kazan, studies at physico-mathematical faculties at Kazan and from 1870 at St.Petersburg. In his youth he was a noted…
KLEINHANS, Edmund. Meran, South Tyrol (now Merano in Italy) 30.11.1870 — Zürich 23.8.1934. Austrian IE Linguist and Musician in Switzerland. Son of a physician, Ludwig Kleinhans, lost early his mother, Bertha Kerber (1848–1874). Studies at Innsbruck (Fr. Stolz) and 1892-93 at Leipzig (Brugmann). Interrupted studies because of an illness. Divided…
KLEEN (af Kleen), Tyra. Stockholm 29.3.1874 — Stockholm 17.9.1951. Swedish Painter interested in South and South-East Asia. Daughter of Richard Kleen (1841-1923), diplomat and juridical author, and Maria Charlotta Amelia Wattrang. Educated at home, mainly by her grandfather Nils Adolf Wattrang (d. 1890), in the 1890s art studies in Germany…