KENT, Roland Grubb. Wilmington, Del. 24.2.1877 — Bryn Mawr, Pa. 27.6.1952. U.S. Latin, IE and Iranian scholar. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Lindley Coates Kent, a lumber merchant, and Anna Grubb. Educated at Swarthmore College. A.B. 1895, B.Litt. 1896, A.M. 1898. Further studies in 1899-1900 at Berlin, 1900 at Munich,…
KENNEDY, Melville Talbot. Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa 21.6.1882 — 2.9.1971. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of John Alexander K. and Mary Elizabeth McCurdy. Worked for Y.W.C.A. in Calcutta. Returned to Illinois around 1925 and worked as pastor in Champaign. Married 1909 Myra Bessie Fishback (1882–1981), their son was…
KENNEDY, James. 1842 — 20.6.1920. British (Scottish) Indologist and Historian of India. Born in North India as son of Rev. James K. (1815–1899), a missionary in Benares and Kumaon, and Margaret Walker. Educated at Edinburgh High School and University. After studies he joined the I.C.S. and from 1863 served in the…
KELLNER, Hermann Camillo. Dresden 8.12.1839 — Zwickau 28.4. or 1.5. 1916. German Indologist. Schoolteacher in Zwickau. From 1859 studies of Indology (under Brockhaus) and classics (i.al. Curtius) at Leipzig. Ph.D. 1862. After a brief time as teacher at Thomasschule in Leipzig he went to Zwickau and was teacher, from 1887…
KELLEY, Gerald Baptiste. 24.6.1928 — 7.12.1987. U.S. Linguist, Scholar of Hindi and Telugu. Professor in Ithaca. Born in Massachusetts. Graduated in 1945 from Boston Latin School. Ph.D. 195? University of Wisconsin. Until 1963 taught at University of Wisconsin as Assistant Professor at Departments of Linguistics and Indian Studies. From 1963…
KELLER-GRIMM, Maya (née Rosa Grimm). 1899/1900 — 1990. German Bauddha. Daughter of —> Georg Grimm and thus grew into a kind of “Buddhism” as a child. Later, continuing her father’s work, she was among the leaders of Altbuddhistische Gemeinde in Utting and editor of the Yāna. Publications: G. Grimm: Die…
KELLER, Otto Heinrich Wilhelm. Eberstadt near Darmstadt 9.9.1879 — Büdingen, Hessen 2.6.1947. German Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Son of August Friedrich Keller, a factory owner, and Johanna Möllinger. After gymnasium in Darmstadt studies at Freiburg and Giessen. Ph.D. 1904 Giessen (under Bartholomae, whom he also helped with…
KEITH, James Blaikie. 1837 — 19??. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Major. From 1882 Assistant Curator of Ancient Monuments, then in 1885 he was Archaeological Surveyor of NW Provinces of India (now Uttar Pradesh), soon succeeded by his Assistant A. A. Führer. Apparently he was more interested in handicraft than…
KEITH, Arthur Berriedale. Portobello (Edinburgh) 5.4.1879 — Edinburgh 6.10. 1944. British (Scottish) Indologist and Scholar of Law. Professor in Edinburgh. Son of an advertiser, Davidson Keith, and Margaret Stobie Drysdale, educated at Royal High School. Studies at Edinburgh University (B.A. 1896, M.A. 189?), and from 1897 at Balliol College, Oxford…
KÉGL, Sándor (Alexander von K.). Szúnyog near Pest 1.12.1862 — Áporka near Pest 29.12.1920. Hungarian Nobleman and Indo-Iranian Scholar. Born in a wealthy Catholic landowner family (knighted 1762). Inspired by Vámbéry’s travels he studied of several Oriental languages in Budapest (Persian, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Tatar, Sanskrit, Urdu, Chuvash, and Mordvin…