LEACH, Abigail. Brockton, MA 28.5.1855 — 29.12.1918. U.S. Greek Scholar and Pioneer of Female Education. Born as the daughter of the shoe manufacturer Marcus Leach. Through her insistent demands to Harvard professors the Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College) was established and she was its first student in 1879-82.…
LANDON, Perceval. Hastings, Sussex 29.3.1869 — London 23.7.1927. British Author, Traveller and Journalist. Son of Rev. Edward Henry Landon, of Huguenot descent, and Caroline Perceval. Educated at Forest School in Walthamstow. From 1888 studies at Hertford College, Oxford, graduated 1892. Called to the bar from Inner Temple. In 1899-1900 war…
LAMBERT, Hester Marjorie. St.Margaret’s, Middlesex 5.11.1895 — London 29.9.1976. British Indologist, a Phonetician. Daughter of James John Lambert and Florence Louisa Legge. M.A. In 1938-63 Senior Lecturer in Marathi at S.O.A.S., then retired. Unmarried. Publications: Textbooks of English in the 1930s. – Marathi Language Course. 14+301 p. Oxford 1943. – Jñāneśvarī. Transl. from…
LA FUENTE, Marguerite. 18?? — 1958?. Mme. French Bauddha. Founder-member of Les amis de bouddhisme in Paris from 1927. Visited Ceylon and other Buddhist countries and learned much from bhikkhus. In 1960 Lu K’uan Yu dedicated his Ch’an and Zen Teaching to the memory of Upāsikā MLF who had encouraged him…
KUDZINOWSKI, Czesław. Wodziłówka, Podlasia 8.10.1908 — Poznań 2.3.1988. Polish Linguist, beside Indo-European also Specialist of Finno-Ugrian and Uralic. Professor in Poznań. Son of a small farmer. From 1928 studies of theology at Wilno (then Polish, now Lithuanian Vilnius), soon switched to IE linguitics. M.A. 1935. In 1935-37 further studies of…
KUCHARSKI, Heinz. Hamburg 22.7.1919 — Markranstädt, Kr. Leipzig 8.10.2000. German Ethnologist of South Asia. Son of engineer Walter K. After school in Hamburg from 1938 studies of philosophy, ethnology and Oriental languages. He was Communist and was imprisoned by Gestapo in 1943, in April 1945 narrowly escaped execution through the…
KRETZSCHMAR, Ludwig Burkhard Benjamin. Lauchhammer, Oberspreewald-Lausitz 5.1.1901 — Normandy 19.7.1944. German Student of Indology. Son of engineer Johannes Kr. (1870–1916) and Elisabeth Hultzsch (?). Ph.D. 1936 Halle (?). Died in WW II. Publications: Diss. Bhavabhūti, der Dichter des Dharma. 7+116 p. Halle 1931. Sources: Janert; *vita in diss.; dates in findagrave.com; forum.ahnenforschung.net (2022).
KOŘÍNEK, František. Nové Mešto, Moravia 10.1.1899 — 19??. Czech Linguist. Ph.D. Prague. From 1935 PD of Comparative Linguistics at Bratislava. Publications: Diss. Sources: Mentioned in a contemporary catalogue of universities and in https://uniba.sk/uploads/media/1935_1936_-_ZOU_ZS_UK_01.pdf. The name is common enough and for one unfamiliar with Slovakian and Czech it is almost impossible to sift out…
KLJUEV, Boris Ivanovič. Moscow 18.7.1927 — 2000. Russian Urdu-Hindi Scholar. Son of an official. Graduated 1952 Moscow. Kand. filol. nauk 1964 Moscow. Dr. ist. nauk 1982. In 1952-71 in Foreign Ministry: in 1952-54 and 1956-60 in Pakistan, 1964-68 in India. In 1971-82 worked in CK KPSS, in 1982-88 taught at…
KLEMM, Erika. 1936 — 1993. German (East) Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Studies at Leipzig. Worked in VEB Verlag in Leipzig and in the 1960s collaborated with Nespital. Possibly she is the same E.K. who knew Uwe Johnson and was apparently married with the musicologist Eberhard Klemm (1929–1991), of Leipzig. Publications: Wörterbuch Hindi-Deutsch. Lp.…