KÜHNEL, Paul Ernst Wilhelm Arthur. Neubrandenburg (Mecklenburg) 26.10.1882 — Berlin 5.8.1964. German Art Historian, Specialist of Islamic Art. Son of Paul Kühnel (1848–1924), a gymnasium teacher, and Eva-Hedwig Braun (d. 1885). Planned career as diplomat and studied law in Paris and Vienna, but from 1902 art history and archaeology at Munich,…
KÜHNAU, Richard. Branitz near Cottbus 10.2.1858 — Cottbus 18.5.1930. German Indologist and Folklorist. Teacher in Breslau. Son of a gardener, educated at Damsdorf (Silesia), then Gymnasium in Breslau. In 1878-85 studies of classical philology, linguistics and Indology (Stenzler & Hillebrandt) at Breslau. Ph.D. 1885 Breslau. Taught at gymnasiums in Kempten,…
KUCKERTZ, Josef. Würselen near Aachen 24.11.1930 — Berlin 25.3.1996. German Ethno-Musicologist interested in Indian Music. Passed Rheinische Musikschule and studied in 1952-56 musicology, Germanic philology and ancient history at Köln. Ph.D. 1962 Köln. In 1963-67 Assistant at Institute of Musicology, University of Köln, 1967 habilitation there. From 1967 PD and…
KROGMANN, Willy (Wilhelm). Wismar 13.9.1905 — Hamburg 20.3.1967. German Germanist also interested in IE Linguistics. Son of Heinrich Krogmann (d. 1939), a timber dealer, and Auguste Meyer. From 1924 studied Germanistics, etc. at Rostock and Leipzig. Ph.D. 1928 Rostock. In 1933-39 in Berlin working on German lexicography. PD 1939 Königsberg.…
KREYENBORG, Clemens August Herman(n). Damme, Oldenburg 13.11.1889 — Münster 9.5.1963. German Indologist. Librarian in Münster. Son of Carl Anton Kreyenborg, a judge. Matriculated 1910 from Münster, then studies of Classics and IE linguistics at Münster and Berlin, continued after voluntary war service (1914-18). Ph.D. 1921 Münster (R. Schmidt). From 1922…
KREYENBORG, Elisabeth. 1897 — 19??. German Librarian, former Student of Indology, probably related with —> H. Kreyenborg. Ph.D. Münster 1930. Worked in Münster as teacher and librarian, from 1943 to c. 1950 Librarian of D.M.G. in Halle. Publications: Diss. Der XXV. Gesang des Śrīkaṇṭhacaritam des Maṅkha. Ein Beitrag zur altindischen…
KRETSCHMER, Paul Wilhelm. Berlin 2.5.1866 — Vienna 9.3.1956. German IE Scholar in Austria. Professor in Vienna. Son of the history and portrait painter Albert Kretschmer (1825–1891) and Minna Obenauf. Studies of IE (J. Schmidt) and classical philology (H. Diels) at Berlin, Ph.D. there 1889. From 1891 PD at Berlin. In…
KRESSLER, August Eduard Oscar. Konstanz 16.4.1876 — Hongkong 1970. German Japanologist, began as Indologist. Son of a postal officer, educated in Aachen, Colmar (Alsace) and Wernigerode. From 1896 studies of Sanskrit, Latin and Oriental philology at Leipzig (Windisch, et al.), one term at Geneva, then at Strassburg (E. Leumann). Ph.D.…
KRAUSE, Wolfgang. Steglitz (now in Berlin) 18.9.1895 — Göttingen 14.8.1970. German IE, Germanic and Tocharian Scholar. Professor in Königsberg and Göttingen. Son of a Gymnasium Professor, Arnold Krause (1855–1902), and Else Herold. From 1914 IE studies at Berlin (W. Schulze) and Göttingen (Ed. Hermann), also Classics (Wilamowitz-Möllendorf), Celtology (Pokorny) and…
KRAUSE, Wilhelm. Freiburg i.Br. 6.12.1910 — Vienna 12.5.1976. German Classical Philologist in Austria. After school in Freiburg and Feldkirch studied from 1929 at Vienna classical, IE and Iranian philology and Indology. From 1932 worked as Librarian at Indogermanisches Institut. Ph.D. 1936 Vienna. In 1937 he passed Lehramtsprüfung in Latin and…