LÜDERS, Else (née Peipers). Göttingen 20.10.1880 — Berlin 13.3.1945. German Indologist. Wife of —> Heinrich Lüders. Daughter of David Peipers (1838–1912), Professor of Philosophy at Göttingen. From 1900 engaged to marry Heinrich Lüders, who also soon became her teacher in Sanskrit. After marriage she assisted her husband in his Mahābhārata…
LUDWIG, Alfred. Vienna 9.10.1832 — Prague 12.6.1912. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Prague. Son of Johannes L., a teacher of French, and Ludowika Köckh, grew up in Vienna, matriculated from Akademisches Gymnasium. From 1852 studies of classical philology, IE linguistics and Sanskrit at Vienna (under Boller) and in 1855-57 at Berlin…
LUBER, Alois Adam August. Salzburg 28.8.1847 — Salzburg 20.6.1924. Austrian Teacher and Classical Scholar. Son of civil servant Ludwig Luber (d. 1850) and Josefa Wirl. Ph.D. 1870. Gymnasium Professor in Salzburg and from c. 1874 in Görz (now Gorizia), teaching history and geography. From 1881 Bezirksschulinspektor in St.Johann im Pongau…
LOVE, Martha Lile. 1950? — 1979. Canadian (?) Student of Indology. Daughter of Donald Drewry L. and Shirley C. Atkins. In 1977/78 at Toronto University, then further studies in Pune. Died as graduate student working on “the Sphoṭa Theory of the Vaiyākaraṇas”. Publications: With B. S. Gillon: “Indian Logic revisited: Nyāyapraveśa…
LOVARINI, Emilio. Vicenza (or Lovadina) 7.4.1866 — Lovadina, Treviso 31.1.1955. Italian Philologist interested in Indology. Graduated from Padova in 1889 with Indological dissertation. Schoolteacher in Ragusa, Catanzaro, Taranto and from 1895 in Cesena. From 1900 Docent of Italian Literature at Bologna University and teacher of the same in R. Liceo…
LOTTNER, Carl Friedrich. Berlin 20.6.1834 — Dublin 5.4.1873. German Celtic and IE Linguist in Ireland. Professor in Dublin. Son of general counsel, Justizrat Franz August L. (1796–1836) and Juliane Sander. After school and Gymnasium in Berlin studied in 1851-54 at Berlin under Bopp and Grimm. Worked as schoolteacher, then in…
LOSCH, Hans. Camphausen near Saarbrücken 16.9.1902 — 1995. German Indologist. Professor in Bonn. Son of a mine owner, educated at St.Avold (Lorraine) and at Gymnasium in 1914-20 in Aachen. Studied from 1920 law at Bonn, in 1921-22 at Munich. Juridical degree 1923 at Bonn. Worked some time in a law…
LORINSER, Carl Maria Franz. Berlin 12.3.1821 — Breslau 12.11.1893. German Catholic Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Born of a family originally coming from Bohemia, the only child of Karl Ignatius L., a physician. In 1825 the family moved to Oppeln, Upper Silesia (Opole in Poland). After school and gymnasium in Oppeln…
LORIMER, Emily Martha (née Overend). Dublin 1881 — Hatfield, Hertfordshire ?.6.1949. British (Anglo-Irish) Journalist, wife of —> D. L. R. Lorimer, participated in his travels and studies. Daughter of judge Thomas George Overend and Hannah Kingsbury. Studied modern languages at Trinity College, Dublin. She was a Germanist (studied 1907 at…
LONG, James. Bandon, Cork 1814 — 23.3.1887. Rev. British (Anglo-Irish) Missionary in India. While earlier sources claim that of his background little is known, but in any case he passed some time in Russia, Wikipedia referring to Oddie knows that he was the son of John and Anne Long and…