LA MAZELIÈRE, Antoine Rous, Marquis de. Paris 28.9.1864 — Paris 23.8.1937. French Traveller and Author. Apparently he himself thought to be a specialist, but the reviewers in RHR make it clear that he was a pure dilettante. Publications: Moines et ascètes indiens. — Essai sur les caves d’Ajaṇṭâ et les couvents bouddhistes des Indes. 306 p.…
LACOMBE, Olivier Auguste. Liège 2.7.1904 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 2.7.2001. French Indologist. Professor in Lille and Paris. Son of engineer, born in Belgium in French family. Educated at Lycée concordet and École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Agrégé de philosophie 1928 and docteur-ès-lettres 1939. In 1939-44 Director of Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters,…
KVERGIĆ, Hermann Feodor (Kvergic). Bratislava 24.6.1895 — 1948/49. Austrian Iranian and Turkic scholar. A Serbian from Bratislava, son of György Kvergič and Hermina Doseri. Gymnasium in Graz, then studied Oriental languages and medicine at Vienna and Graz. Ph.D. 1927 Vienna. Travels in Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. From at least 1938 apparently living…
KÜHN, Alfred. 1911 — ????. German Sinologist. Ph.D. 1935 Leipzig. No certain evidence after 1942 (then he was in Wehrmacht). Publications: Diss. Berichte über den Weltanfang bei den Indochinesen und ihren Nachbarvölkern. Ein Beitrag zur Mythologie des Fernen Ostens. 177 p. Lp. 1935. – “Zwei Darstellungen des Padmasambhava”, Art. As. 5, 1935, 117-126;…
KUNIKE, Hugo. Hamburg 2.3.1887 — 1945/49. German Anthropologist. Son of a merchant, gymnasium in Wandsbek. Studies of ethnology, philosophy and comparative linguistics at Berlin. Ph.D. 1912 Leipzig. In 1909-19 worked as wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, then private scholar in Berlin. Publications: Diss. Couvade oder das sogenannte Männerkindbett. Halle…
KOSSINNA, Gustaf. Tilsit, Ostpreussen (now Sovetsk in Russia) 28.9.1858 — Berlin 20.12.1931. German Archaeologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of a secondary-school teacher, Hermann K., and Natalie Genzmer. After gymnasium in Tilsit studied classics and Germanic philology at Göttingen, Leipzig, Berlin and Strassburg. Ph.D. 1887 Strassburg. In 1887-92 librarian in Halle,…
KÓS, Péter (born Leó Raab, from 1939 Lev Konduktorov). Moscow 15.8.1921 — 1994. Hungarian Chemist, Diplomat and Communist Activist. Graduated as chemical engineer. From 1949 in Hungarian Foreign Ministry, 1954-56 Ambassador in New Delhi, then in Washington. In October 1956 dismissed as Soviet citizen and agent, but reinstated in November.…
KOLLÁR, Ján (Czech Jan K.). Mosóc (now Mošovce) 29.7.1793 — Vienna 24.1.1852. Slovakian Philologist, Poet and Translator. Son of the local mayor Matej Kollár and Katarina Frndová. After gymnasium in Pressburg (Bratislava) worked as teacher. In 1817-19 studied Lutheran theology at Jena. From 1819 priest in Slovakian church in Pest. In…
KÖLVER, Bernhard. Ründeroth near Köln 2.4.1938 — Leipzig 27.11.2001. German Indologist. Professor in Köln, Kiel and Leipzig. Son of a gymnasium teacher, who Participated in WW II and died soon after his return from captivity. Educated in Wertheim, Gummersbach und Fort Myers (Florida). From 1956 studies linguistics, Anglistics, Germanistics and…
KNOX, George. Inismagrath, co. Leitrim, Ireland 1793 — 2.9.1847, when 53. British Physician in India. M.D. c. 1816. In E.I.C.’s medical service, Madras. Married Mary Griffith (1809–1841), one son. Publications: Wrote on Burmese Buddhism in MJLS 1, 1834, 25-39 and in TrRAS 3, 1835, 271-284; medical writings. Sources: Revised List of Tombs of Europeans and Eurasians in…