LOGAN, Alexander Cochrane. 1861? — 1910?. British Civil Servant in India. Probably son of the elder A. C. Logan (1804–1886, a planter in Jamaica) and his wife Margaret Hall (1831–1919), grew up in Mandeville, Jamaica. From 1879 (when 18) studies at Oxford (Balliol College). Joined I.C.S. in 1879 and from…
LOBSIGER-DELLENBACH, Marguerite (née M. D.). Geneva 9.7.1905 — Onex, Geneva 1993. Swiss Anthropologist and Ethnomusicologist. From 1922 secretary of anthropologist Eugène Pittard. Ph.D. 1935 Geneva (diss. on palaeolithic population of Switzerland). From 1947 Vice-Director and in 1952-67 Director of Musée d’ethnographie in Geneva (Pittard’s successor). Fieldwork in Nepal in 1952. Married…
LIACRE DE SAINT-FIRMIN, Julie. 18?? — 19??. Mme. French Physician (M.D. Paris) interested in Indian Tradition. P. Masson-Oursel in his RHR review deems her book as unripe, it contains errors and many important sources are missing. Publications: Med. diss. Médecine et légendes bouddhiques de l’Inde. 120 p. P. 1916. Sources: No hints about…
LEMBEZAT, Bertrand Jean François. Cairo, Egypr 8.3.1913 — Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) 26.3.1986.French Ethnologist and Colonial Official. Son of Jean Lembezat and Marcelle Le Fee de Plaudren. Studies in Paris, diploms of École nationale d’outre-mer (1933), École nationale des langues orientales and Institut d’ethnologie. In the 1930s in Cameroon, during WW II worked…
LE BONHEUR, Albert. Saigon 6.8.1938 — Paris 8.2.1996. French Art Historian of South and South-East Asia. Educated in Saigon, Hanoi and Paris, studied art history, Sanskrit and Tamil in Paris. Diplome of École du Louvre 1966. Then conservator in Musée Guimet, from 1971 also taught at École du Louvre. Ph.D. 1978…
LEACH, Edmund Ronald. Sidmouth, Devon 10.11.1910 — Cambridge 6.1.1989. Sir. British Anthropologist. Son of William Edmund Leach and Mildred Mary Brierley, educated at Marlborough College. Studies of mathematical and mechanical sciences at Cambridge (Clare College). B.A. 1932, then four year in China serving a British business company, but did not…
LAUFER, Heinrich. Köln 2.2.1877 — Luxor (?) 10.7.1935. German Physician. Son of Max Laufer (of Jewish background) and Eugenie Schlesinger, brother of —> Berthold Laufer (1874–1934). Dr.med. Berlin. Worked many years in Cairo, Egypt. Married Margarete. For his small study of Tibetan medicine he collected material from travel books. Publications: Beiträge…
LAUF, Detlef Ingo. 1936 — 2001. German or Swiss (?) Tibetologist and Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Ph.D. Dipl.-Psych. He taught as Professor at C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, at Institute of Asian Studies in San Francisco, at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and at Columbia Pacific University in…
LANGE, Antoni. Warsaw 28.4.1862 — Warsaw 17.3.1929. Polish Poet, Author and Translator. Son of Henryk Lange (1815–1884) and Zofia Eisenbaum, a Polish patriotic Jewish family. He began studies at the then Russian Warsaw university, but was soon expelled for his Polish patriotic activity. Worked as tutor and published some poetry,…
LA MAZELIÈRE, Antoine Rous, Marquis de. Paris 28.9.1864 — Paris 23.8.1937. French Traveller and Author. Apparently he himself thought to be a specialist, but the reviewers in RHR make it clear that he was a pure dilettante. Publications: Moines et ascètes indiens. — Essai sur les caves d’Ajaṇṭâ et les couvents bouddhistes des Indes. 306 p.…