LARIN, Boris Aleksandrovič. Poltava 12.1.1893 — Leningrad 26.3.1964. Ukrainian Linguist in Russia, Specialist of Balto-Slavonian also interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Leningrad. Son of a schoolteacher. Educated in 1902-06 at Kamenec-Podol’skoj gimnazii and 1906-10 at Kievskoj Kollegij im. Pavla Galagana. In 1910-14 studies at Kiev University of Slavonian philology and…
LAMBRICK, Hugh Trevor. Shardlow, Derbyshire 20.4.1904 — Oxford 31.8.1982. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of Rev. Charles Mengier (Menzies?) L. (1862–1947) and Jessie Mabel Trevor (1875–1946). Educated in Caterham, Surrey and Fleetwood, Lancashire. Born in a family with long traditions in colonial service and especially in Sindh,…
LALOU, Marcelle. Meudon-Bellevue near Paris 23.8.1890 — Paris 15.12.1967. French Tibetan Scholar. Daughter of Georges Lalou, an advocate. Conforming to the demands then put to a girl she studied history and art history at Sorbonne only privately without graduation. During the war in 1914-18 worked as a nurse. After the…
LADNER, Max. Brixen, Südtirol (now Bressanone, Alto Adighe) 11.12.1889 — Zürich-Witikon 23.10.1963. Austrian Bauddha in Switzerland. Building engineer by profession, he moved to Switzerland before the WW 1. Interested in Schopenhauer he soon turned to Buddhism. From 1929 living in Zürich. Married 1919 Rosa Suter, one son. Collaborated with G.…
LĄCZAK, Józef (until the 1970s Lonczak). Książnica (near Mielec) 5.12.1926 — 21.8.1989. Polish Linguist, began as an Indologist, but moved into the Finno-Ugrian studies. After school (in wartime in secret courses) at Mielec, from 1947 studies of Indology (Willman-Grabowska) and Polish Philology at Cracow, graduated M.A. in 1952 (diss. “Indian Studies…
LACÔTE, Félix. Moulins (Allier) 3.9.1873 — 20.3.1925. French Indologist. Professor in Lyon. Studies of philology, graduated a teacher in 1896. During studies he had been interested in Sanskrit and concentrated now on Sanskrit and Tibetan studies and became a student of Lévi. From 1899 teacher at Lycée of Montluçon, spent…
LABER, Julius. Köln 11.5.1884 — 1944?. German Student of Indology. Son of a bookseller from Cologne, where he attended school and Gymnasium. From 1903 studies of law at Bonn, then at Berlin, Freiburg i.Br., and Leipzig. Back to Bonn in 1905, in 1906 moved to Philosophical Faculty, where 1906-08 studies…
KUZNECOV, Bronislav Ivanovič. Leningrad 2.11.1931 (or 2.12.?) — Leningrad 24.7.1985. Russian Tibetan Scholar. Son of a worker. Studies under Vorob’ev-Desjatoskij and Pankratov at Leningrad Oriental Faculty, graduated 1956. Field experience from Buryatia. Kand. filol. nauk 1962. From 1959 taught at Leningrad Oriental Faculty. Interested in Iranian elements in Tibetan Buddhism.…
KURYŁOWICZ, Jerzy. Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine) 26.8.1895 — Cracow 28.1.1978. Polish IE Scholar. Professor in Lwów (L’viv) and Cracow. Born in what was then the Polish part of Austro-Hungarian empire, son of Roman K. and Flora Kleczyńska. Gymnasium in Lemberg (L’viv). In 1913-14 and again 1918-20 studies at commercial…
KUNST, Arnold. 23.7.1903 — London ?.12.1981. Polish Indologist in the U.K. After gymnasium in Lwów (L’viv) studies at local university (M.A. 1929 under Stasiak), then at Vienna (Frauwallner) and Warsaw (Schayer). Ph.D. 1934 Warsaw in Indian philosophy. In 1929-32 Assistant Lecturer at Lwów (L’viv). Little before war (1939) moved to…