CALMEYER, Peter. Halle 5.9.1930 — Berlin 22.11.1995. German Archaeologist and Iranian Scholar. Son of Hans Georg Calmeyer (1903–1972), an attorney-at-law, and his wife Ruth, from 1932 grew up in Osnabrück. After matriculation from Osnabrück studied from 1950 classical archaeology at Münster and Munich, 1954-55 in Copenhagen, from 1955 Near Eastern…
BERGER, Hermann. Bad Kötzting, Bayerischer Wald 17.10.1926 — Heidelberg 31.1.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of Peter Berger (1896–1976) and Angelika Rössler (1898–1991). After school military service ending as war prisoner. Released, studies of Indology, IE linguistics and Semitic at Munich 1948-53, 1953 Ph.D. there. His main teacher was…
BECHERT, Heinz. Munich 26.6.1932 — Göttingen 14.6.2005. German Indologist, a Famous Specialist of Buddhist Studies. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Rudolf Bechert (1900–1961), a lawyer, and Herta Bade. After gymnasium in Rosenheim (near Salzburg in Austria) from 1950 studies at Munich, beginning with classical philology and history, soon linguistics under…
BACH, Claus-Peter. 19?? — 2005. German Physician. Dr.med. In 1973 in Frankfurt a. M., then internist in Memmingen, Swabia. Several visits to the Himalayas. Married with Lissy Bach-Sedel (b. c. 1930), no children. Publications: Mustang: Blick in ein verborgenes Königreich im Himalaya. 192 p. 78 ill. Wb. 1993. – “Om…
VORLÄNDER, Franz Carl Christian. Röttchen near Bonn 15.9.1806 — Marburg 31.3.1867. German Philosopher. Roman Catholic. Lost early his father, educated by his mother, school in Siegen and gymnasium briefly in Wetzlar. Studied at Bonn and 1832-34 Berlin (under Lachmann and Schleiermacher), also learned Sanskrit from Bopp. Ph.D. 1834 Berlin. PD…
RIX, Helmut. Amberg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria 4.7.1926 — Colmar, Alsace 3.12.2004. German Linguist (IE and Italic). Professorin Regensburg and Freiburg. Son of a teacher, Hans Rix, and his wife Susanne. In WW II served in navy, then studies of IE, classics and history at Würzburg 1846-47, then at Heidelberg. Ph.D.…
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…
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…
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.
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…