O’BRIEN, Paul W.

O’BRIEN, Paul Wilfred. 23.5.1908 — 9.2.2001. S.J. U.S. Missionary and Buddhist Scholar. Catholic Priest. From California, joined S.J. in 1925, ordained priest 1938. First went to China as missionary in 1932, then returned for studies. Ph.D. 1941 University of California, Berkeley. From 1945 Superior of Californian Jesuits in China. In…

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NEUMANN, Michael

NEUMANN, Michael. 1??? — ????. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1927 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Der Vṛtra-Kampf in der indischen Literatur. Manuscript, Vienna 1927. Sources: diss. in Janert.

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NEUMANN, Käthe

NEUMANN, Käthe. Berlin 14.7.1903 — Emmerich am Rhein 14.8.1989. German Scholar of Religion and former Student of Indology. Daughter of Otto Neumann and his wife Minna. Studies of Germanistics and Indology at Greifswald and Berlin, then comparative religion at Marburg. Ph.D. 1933 Marburg (under Nobel). From 1937 curator in charge…

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NECKEL, Hannah

NECKEL, Hannah. 18?? — 19??. According to her only known publication she was “Frau in Heidelberg.” Most probably she was Hannah Neckel (née von Wink). Wismar 23.4.1881 — Berlin 22.2.1968. She married 1904 Dr. Gustav Neckel, who was then Oberlehrer in Breslau until 1911, from 1909 also PD at Breslau…

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MITTELBERGER, Hermann

MITTELBERGER, Hermann. Klagenfurt 25.1.1935 — Treibach-Althofen, Kärnten 13.5.2004. Austrian IE Scholar. Professor in Graz. School in Klagenfurt, from 1953 studies of classics, IE and Sanskrit at Vienna. Ph.D. 1962  Vienna. In 1957-62 Assistant of Indology at Vienna, then briefly at Utrecht. From 1964 Assistant, from 1969 also PD at Würzburg.…

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MARSCHNER, Käthe

MARSCHNER, Käthe. 1904 — ????. German Student of Indology. Pupil of O. Strauss in Breslau. Ph.D. there 1933 (under Strauss). Publications:diss. Zur Verfasserfrage des dem Śaṁkarācārya zugeschriebenen Bṛhadāraṇyakopa­niṣad-Bhāṣya. 5+86 p. Breslau 1933. Sources: Nothing found except the diss.; birth year in Hathitrust catalogue.

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LESLIE, I. Julia

LESLIE, Isobel Julia. Dar es Salaam 23.1.1948 — Dacorum, Hertfordshire 24.9.2004. British Indologist. Daughter of John Arthur Kingsley Leslie (1918–2011) and Elizabeth Helen Tancock (2021–2008). Studied philosophy, French and German at University of Sussex, then six years in South Asia. M.Phil. 1980 and  D.Phil. 1983 Oxford. In the 1980s at…

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LÁSZLÓ, Franz von

LÁSZLÓ, Franz von. 23.10.1906 — ????. German (with Hungarian background?) Indologist. Interested in Dharmaśāstra. In 1941 stud. philol. in Berlin, but moved soon to Bonn. Ph.D. 1952 Bonn (under Kirfel). In 1955 & 1987 living in Bonn. Publications: Diss. Manu bei Bhaviṣya Purāṇa.Bonn 1952, publ. as Die Parallel­version der Manusmṛti…

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KUIPER, F. B. J.

KUIPER, Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus. the Hague 7.7.1907 — Zeist, prov. Utrecht 14.11.2003. Dutch Indologist, Munda and Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. Son of the elder F. B. J. Kuiper (1878–1973), a schoolteacher, and Anna Maria van Dijk. After school in the Hague studied classical and IE philology, at Leiden, and…

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KLOPPENBORG, Ria

KLOPPENBORG, Ria (Maria Anna Geertruida Theresia Kl.). Utrecht 8.3.1945 — Utrecht 4.10.2003. Dutch Indologist and Scholar of Religion (Buddhism). From 1963 studies of law, but soon of Indology and Buddhism at Leiden and Utrecht. M.A. 1970. Ph.D. 1974 Utrecht (Gonda). From 1970 taught Indian religions at Department of Religion in…

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