LACEY, William Carey (not Charles?). 1831 — 1870. Rev. Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Charles Lacey (1798–1853), also a missionary in Orissa (from 1823), and his wife Ann Merriman. Himself resided in Cuttack at least from 1851. Directed the Orissa Mission Press founded by his father together with Amos…
KRICK, Nicolas Michel. Lixheim en Meurthe, Lorraine 1.3.1819 — 1.9.1854. Father. French Missionary in North-East India. Son of tailor Michel Krick and Élisabeth Dubourg (d. 1826). From 1839 studies at the seminary of Nancy, ordained priest 1844 and began work as vicar in Lorraine. In 1848 joined Missions étrangères de Paris…
KRAHMER, Friedrich August Wilhelm. Schiedungen, Nordhausen, Thüringen 22.11.1809 — Ibid. 4.5.1895. German Oriental Scholar and Theologian. Son of Johann Friedrich Christian Krahmer (1774–1859) and Dorothea Eleanor Linseln. Ph.D. 1833 Göttingen, diss. on Joel. In 1833-40 PD of Oriental Languages, incl. Sanskrit, at Marburg (Rabault-Feuerham 2008). In 1840 emigrated to Russia. The…
KOHOUT, Václav. Kolín 1802/03 — Jasov 6.11.1867. Czech Catholic Theologian. Premonstratensian Vicar in Poprad (Slovakia) in 1849-65. Publications: Manuscript works Tentamen condiscendae lingue zingaricae and Exercitatio lingo zingaricae (1821) kept in Premonstratensian library in Jasov. Sources: Kdo Byl Kdo: Čeští a slovenští orientalisté, afrikanisté a iberoamerikanisté, referring to *Slovenský biografický slovník 3, 1989, 133; Studia Bibliographica Posoniensia 1/2009, 182 (English…
KNIGHTON, William. Dublin 16.1.1824 — Tileworth, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex 31.3.1900. British (Irish) Journalist in Sri Lanka and Civil Servant in India. Son of Richard Knighton (1785–1826) and Jane Ann Bowes (1787–1828), educated in Glasgow. After graduating went to Ceylon in 1843. For a short time worked as the…
KNIGHT, Joseph. Stroud, Gloucestershire 17.10.1787 — Cotta (or Colombo?), Sri Lanka 11.10.1840, when 53. Rev. British Missionary in Sri Lanka. Arrived at Colombo in June 1818 with three others (S. Lambrick, R. Major and B. Ward), then worked for Church Missionary Society at Nellore (Nallur) in Jaffna. Immediately he began…
KLICH, Edward. Skałat (now Skalat in Ukraine) 2.2.1878 — Poznań 1.12.1939. Polish Linguist, Specialist of Slavic and Gipsy Languages. Student of Rozwadowski at Cracow. From 1929 Professor at Poznań. Killed by Nazis. Publications: Wrote on Slavic linguistics (Polish and Belarus). – “Wpływy języka polskiego na dialekty Cyganów polskich”, Prace polonist. ofiar. prof.…
KISTNER, Otto August Heinrich. 11.11.1841 — 1903. German?. Living in Leipzig (1856/69). Publications: Buddha and his doctrines. A bibliographical essay. 4+32 p. L. 1869. – A book catalogue and commercial dictionaries. Sources: Scanty stray notes in Internet.
KING, William.1834? — Bedford ?.12.1900. Anglo-Irish Geologist in India. Son of William King (1809–1886, the Geologist, who in 1863 proposed that Homo neanderthalensis is a different species) and Jane Nicholson. Wikipedia on father claims that they were only married in 1839! Studied civil engineering at Queen’s College in Galway, then studies at…
KEY, Thomas Hewitt. London 20.3.1799 — London 29.11.1875. British Classical Scholar. Son of Thomas Key, a physician, and Mary Lux Barry. Educated at Buntingford grammar school, Hertfordshire. Studies at St. John’s and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, graduated B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824. Also studied medicine. In 1825-27 Professor of Pure mathematics at the…