LOHMANN, Johannes Friedrich. Diensthoop, Kreis Verden, Niedersachsen 9.7.1895 — Freiburg i. Br. 3.5.1989. German IE Linguist. Professor in Freiburg. Son of a farmer. Matriculated in 1914 from Verden, then in 1914-18 participated in the WW I. Studies of Slavonic and from 1921 classical philology at Berlin. Ph.D. 1923 Berlin. From…
LÖBBECKE, Otto Emil Rudolf. Braunschweig 6.8.1884 — 1946. German Student of Indology. Son of a banker, in 1893-1903 at Gymnasium in Braunschweig. In 1903 one term of law studies at Marburg, then at Leipzig, where he moved into Philosophical Faculty and started Oriental studies under Windisch, Lindner and Conrady. In…
LOBEDANZ, Edmund Adolf Johannes. Schleswig 10.12.1820 — Copenhagen 21.10.1882. German Author and Translator in Denmark. Son of George Carl Friedrich Lobedanz (1778–1825) and Anna Friderica Kirchner. Originally a pharmacist, from 1844 studied at Philosophical Faculty, Kiel. Travelled in Germany. Living in Copehagen, from 1853 secretary in the State Department of…
LIPPE-BIESTERFELD, Ernst Aschwin Georg Carol Heinrich Ignatz, Prinz zu (1916 Graf von Biesterfeld, Durchlaucht). Jena 13.6.1914 — the Hague 14.5.1988. German Art Historian of India and China. Son of Prinz Bernhard (1872–1934) and Armgard von Crumm (1883–1971), younger brother of Prince Bernhard of Netherlands. Studied art history and openly supported…
LINDNER, Martin Traugott Bruno. Leipzig 25.10.1853 — Dresden 20.5.1930. German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. Son of the notorious Wilhelm Bruno Lindner (1814–1876) and Benedicta Engel. The father was Professor of Theology at Leipzig, but lost his position and was sentenced to prison in 1860 for 6 years because of repeated…
LINDENAU, Max. Sagan, Schlesien (now Żagań in Poland) 9.12.1885 — Kiefersfelden, Bavaria 6.12.1980. German Indologist. From 1906 studies at Munich, Greifswald and Leipzig. Ph.D. 1913 Leipzig (under Windisch). Then living in Schwerin. From 1919 PD at Marburg, until 1927, when he moved to Königsberg (but no umhabilitation). Schoolteacher (Studienrat) there.…
LIEBICH, Bruno Arthur Franz Karl. Altwasser, Kr. Waldenburg, Silesia (now Stary Zdrój in Poland)7.1.1862 — Breslau 4.7.1939. German Indologist. Professor in Heidelberg and Breslau. Son of a mill owner. In 1880-85 studies at Breslau, Munich and Göttingen. Ph.D. 1885 Göttingen (under Kielhorn). In 1886-88 worked as voluntary (Volontär) in Breslau…
LIEBENTHAL, Walter. Königsberg 12.6.1886 — Tübingen 15.11.1982. German Indologist, Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Peking and Santiniketan. Son of Robert Liebenthal (1854–1942), an attorney, and Margarethe (Grete) Becken. In 1899 the family moved to Berlin, then gymnasium there, matriculated 1904. After a brief period of university studies of law…
LICHTERBECK, Karl. Roxel. Westphalia 30.8.1869 — 19??. German Student of Indo-Iranian. From Roxel (Westfalen). Ph.D. 1893 Münster. Then worked as a teacher (Oberlehrer) in Crefeld. His diss. deals with the oldest part of the Avesta. Publications: diss. Die Nominalflexion im Gathadialekt. 48 p. Gütersloh 1893, then in KZ 33, 1895,…
LEYEN, Friedrich Gustav von der. Bremen 19.8.1873 — Kirchseeon bei München 8.6.1966. German Germanist and Scholar of Folk Literature and Narrative Traditions. Son of Alfred von der Leyen (1844–1934, lawyer and official) and Luise Kapp (1852–1908). After gymnasium in Berlin studies at Marburg, Leipzig and Berlin. Ph.D. 1894 Berlin, in Old…