KING, James Stewart. County Wexford, Ireland 15.5.1848 — Hampshire 1910. British (Irish) Colonial Officer and Persian Scholar in India. Son of Rev. Robert Belsham King (1809–1877) and Harriette Brunker, educated at Fairfield, Wexford, Dublin University, and R.M.C. Sandhurst. In 1868 joined Indian army, from 1874 in Bombay Staff Corps. In…
KINDERSLEY, Nathaniel Edward. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 2.2.1763 — Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire 16.2.1831. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Nathaniel Kindersley (1732–1769), Colonel of Bengal Artillery, and Jemima Wicksted (1741–1809, travel writer). Served 1779–1805 in Madras Presidency, i.al. as Collector of South Arcot. Married 1786 in India Hannah Butterworth (1755–1814),…
KINCAID, Charles Augustus. Indore 8.2.1870 — Fulham, London 15.8.1954. British Civil Servant, Historian and Marathi Scholar in India. Son of —> General William Kincaid (1831–1909) and Martha Pattie Shortt, educated at Sherborne School and Balliol College, Oxford. Passed I.C.S. examination 1889, arrived in India in 1891. In 1891-94 Assistant Collector…
KILGOUR, Robert. 29.4.1867 — 28.1.1942. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Nepali Scholar in India. Son of Robert Kilgour, educated in Glasgow. Studied theology at Glasgow University (M.A. 1886, B.D. 1889, D.D. 1909). In 1889-1909 missionary of Church of Scotland in Darjeeling. In 1909-32 Superintendent of Translating and Editorial Department of…
KIESSLING, Max Hermann. Neuschönefeld near Leipzig 16.9.1877 — Munich 28.3.1946. German Classical Philologist, Historical Geographer and Iranian Scholar. Son of Hermann Kiessling, an estate owner. Gymnasium and studies in Leipzig, 1899-1900 in Berlin (under W. Sieglin). Ph.D. Leipzig 1900. Worked as Sieglin’s Assistant in Berlin. In 1910 moved to Rome…
KIEPERT, Heinrich. Berlin 31.7.1818 — Berlin 21.4.1899. German Geographer, Cartographer, and Historian of Geography. Professor in Berlin. Son of Samuel Kiepert (1763–1836), a merchant, and Christiane Henriette Beer. Educated at Joachimsthaler Gymnasium (where A. Meineke was his teacher), became soon interested in ancient history and geography. From 1836 studies of…
KIELHORN, Lorenz Franz. Osnabrück 31.5.1840 — Göttingen 19.3.1908. German Indologist. Professor in Pune and Göttingen. Son of Johann Andreas Christian Kielhorn, a stonemason, and Anna Marie Hildebrandt. After school in Bernburg (Anhalt) studies of Indology, etc. at Göttingen (Benfey), Breslau (Stenzler) and Berlin (Weber). Ph.D. 1862. Leipzig when 21. In…
KIECKERS, Friedrich Ernst. Barmen (now part of Wuppertal) 27.9.1882 — Munich 5.8.1938. German IE Linguist in Estonia. Professor in Tartu. Son of Ernst Kieckers, owner of a dyehouse, and Mathilde Kramer. After gymnasium in Barmen studies of IE linguistics in 1901-07 at Bonn, Munich and Marburg. Ph.D. 1907 Marburg, then further…
KIBAT, Artur. Lyck, Ostpreussen (now Ełk, Poland) 8.10.1878 — 1960/61. German Teacher and former Student of Indology. Son of a postal secretary, lost early his father and was educated at Kgl. Waisenhaus zu Königsberg. After Gymnasium in Königsberg studied in 1898-1904 at Königsberg University modern languages and IE linguistics (under…
KES, Louis. 18?? — 19??. Dutch Translator, probably a Theosophist. Publications: De Bhagavad-Gîtâ; het boek van Yoga. 128 p. Baarn 1904, 2nd ed 11+137 p.. 1919. Sources: Many refrences to the book, nothing on the translator.