Europe – Page 13 – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen

NEUMANN, Michael

NEUMANN, Michael. 1??? — ????. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1927 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Der Vṛtra-Kampf in der indischen Literatur. Manuscript, Vienna 1927. Sources: diss. in Janert.

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

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

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.…

MELLING, David J.

MELLING, David John. 1943 — 13.9.2004 (when 61). British philosopher working on Greek and Indian Philosophy. Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, teaching also Indian philosophy there. Married Ellen, children. Publications: Wrote i.al. on Plato and on Christian thought. Sources:Indology List 20.9.2004; scanty stray notes in Internet.

MARSCHNER, Käthe

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.

LYSEBETH, André van

LYSEBETH, André van. Brussels 11.10.1919 — Perpignan 28.1.2004 (France). Belgian Yoga Instructor and Author. Worked in a publishing house in Brussels. From 1949 pupil of Swami Sivananda (whom he only met in person in 1963). Married Denise, children. Publications: Tantra, le culte de la féminité. 1988; English transl. Tantra: the…

LINDEGGER, Peter

LINDEGGER-STAUFFER, Peter. Oberentfelden, Canton Aarau 1933 — Winterthur 11.12.2004. Swiss Classical and Tibetan Scholar. Educated in Aarau, after secondary school became a graphic designer and lithographer, but also continued his formal education matriculating in 1956. Then studies of classical philology. Worked as schoolteacher in Aarau and from 1965 in Winterthur,…

LESLIE, I. Julia

LESLIE, Isobel Julia. Dar es Salaam 23.1.1948 — Dacorum, Hertfordshire 24.9.2004. British Indologist. Daughter of John Arthur Kingsley Leslie (1918–2011) and Elizabeth Helen Tancock (2021–2008). Studied philosophy, French and German at University of Sussex, then six years in South Asia. M.Phil. 1980 and D.Phil. 1983 Oxford. In the 1980s at…

LÁSZLÓ, Franz von

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…