LOHUIZEN-DE LEEUW, Johanna (Hanne) Engelberta van (née Joan de Leeuw). Amsterdam 25.10.1919 — Amsterdam 8.12.1983. Dutch Indologist and Art Historian. Professor in Amsterdam. Daughter of botanist Willem Carel de Leeuw (1881–1964) and Margareta Lievina Muller, spent part of her childhood in the U.S.A. and came back to the Netherlands to school,…
LOHMANN, Johannes Friedrich. Diensthoop, Kreis Verden, Niedersachsen 9.7.1895 — Freiburg i. Br. 3.5.1989. German IE Linguist. Professor in Freiburg. Son of a farmer. Matriculated in 1914 from Verden, then in 1914-18 participated in the WW I. Studies of Slavonic and from 1921 classical philology at Berlin. Ph.D. 1923 Berlin. From…
LÖBBECKE, Otto Emil Rudolf. Braunschweig 6.8.1884 — 1946. German Student of Indology. Son of a banker, in 1893-1903 at Gymnasium in Braunschweig. In 1903 one term of law studies at Marburg, then at Leipzig, where he moved into Philosophical Faculty and started Oriental studies under Windisch, Lindner and Conrady. In…
LÓCZY, Lajos. Pozsony (Bratislava) 2.11.1849 — Balatonarács/Balatonfüred 13.5.1920. Hungarian Geologist, Palaeontologist, Geographer and Traveller in Central Asia and China. Son of Sándor Lóczy and Mária Kuhn, school in Arad. After Technische Hochschule, Zürich, from 1874 worked in Hungarian National Museum. In the 1877-80 participated (like Bálint) in the Széchenyi Expedition…
LIPPE-BIESTERFELD, Ernst Aschwin Georg Carol Heinrich Ignatz, Prinz zu (1916 Graf von Biesterfeld, Durchlaucht). Jena 13.6.1914 — the Hague 14.5.1988. German Art Historian of India and China. Son of Prinz Bernhard (1872–1934) and Armgard von Crumm (1883–1971), younger brother of Prince Bernhard of Netherlands. Studied art history and openly supported…
LINOSSIER, Raymonde. Lyon 25.3.1897 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 30./31.1./1.2.1930. French Art Historian and Indologist. Lawyer at Paris Cour d’appel. Daughter of Georges L. (1857–1923), Professor of Medicine. In WW I served as nurse, after war began law studies, graduated 1926. Also studied Indology under Lévi. Worked from 1925 as unsalaried attachée in…
LINGAT, Robert Arthur. Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) 22.12.1892 — Paris 7.5.1972. French Lawyer, Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar, long time in South-East Asia. After school in Charleville and law degree in Paris studied Sanskrit, Pāli and Thai (Lorgeou). In the WW I he served as interpreter for forces sent by the king of…
LING, Trevor Oswald. London 17.2.1920 — Long Eaton, Derbyshire 24.3.1995. British Scholar of Comparative Religion and Buddhism. Son of Albert Oswald Ling and Emma Meachen. Started to study for Baptist ministry, but in war service went to India. In Calcutta he met Hindu thought and started to learn Sanskrit and…
LINDSAY, Thomas Bond. New York City 28.4.1853 — Glenview, KY 22.7.1909. U.S. Philologist. Professor in Boston. Son of John W. Lindsay. Studies in 1865-68 at Genessee Wesleyan Seminar, 1869 Boston Latin School, M.A. 1874 American Wesleyan University. In 1874-77 further studies in Germany. Ph.D. 1882 Boston University. In 1877-88 taught…
LINDQUIST, Carl Sigurd. Ugglum, Skaraborgs län 12.6.1895 — 11.8.1943. Swedish Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of Johan Leonard L., a farmer, and Ida Maria Westerling. After school in Uppsala, from 1914 studies at Uppsala. Fil.kand. 1915, Teol.kand. 1918, Fil.lic. 1920 (under K. F. Johansson), Ph.D. 1932 Uppsala. Ordained as…