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 Assistant at Marburg…
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…
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.…
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.
LEVY, Robert Isaac. New York 1.6.1924 — Asolo, Italy 29.8.2003. U.S. Anthropologist with Psychoanalytic background. Son of Nathan Levy and Miriam Israelson. He was trained as a psychoanalytic psychiatrist (dr.med. 1947) and had a private practice in psychiatry for several years, before turning to anthropology. In 1961 and 1962-42 Fieldwork…
KRÁSA, Miloslav. Libočany 6.1.1920 — 16.4.2004. Czech Indologist. Studied Hindi under Pořízka at Prague 1943-47 and in 1947-48 at Allahabad, graduated 1953. In 1954-97 taught at Prague. Publications: The Temples of Angkor. Monuments to a Vanished Empire. 272 p. London 1963. – Unending Discoveries of Eastern Cultures. 208 p. Prague 1966.…
JOHNSON, Edwin Lee. Mount Vernon, Ill. 25.10.1874 — Nashville, Tennessee 15.10.1947. U.S. Linguist. Son of Rev. Adam Clarke Johnson (1832–1899) and Margaret Ann Sweeney (1846–1898). High School in Oxford, Miss. Studied at Mississippi University (A.B. 1894) and Vanderbilt University (A.M. 1900). Ph.D. 1910 Vanderbilt. Taught Latin and Greek at Quitman…
JAMESON, Michael Hamilton. London 15.10.1924 — Stanford 18.8.2004. U.S. Classical Scholar. Born in London where his parents, Raymond D. Jameson and Rose Perel. were visiting from Peking, where his father was Professor of Western Literature. Grew up in Peking and London. A.B. 1942 University of Chicago in Greek. In 1943-46…
HORSLEY, William Henry. Teddington, Middlesex 28.10.1812 — England 8.2.1893. British Colonial Engineer Officer. Son of of George Henry Horsley of Middlesex and Frances Elizabeth Harding. After Addiscombe a year of specialist training at Chatham and then joined Madras Engineers. Mainly involved with civil engineering projects, especially in Travancore. Finally Lieutenant-Colonel.…
HARLE, James (Jim) Coffin. Santa Monica, Calif. 5.4.1920 — 27.6.2004. U.S. Art Historian in the U.K. Son of James Wyly Harle and Elfrieda Frances Baumann. Educated at St George’s School in Newport, RI, studies at Princeton (B.A. 1942). In 1942-46 in war service in U.S.N.R., Aviation Branch, retired as Lieutenant.…