KOŁAKOWSKI, Ignacy (Belarus Ignat Grigoravič Kulakoŭski). Janaŭščyna, Lithuanian gub. 6.2.1800 — Białystok 31.5.1860. Polish (Belarusian) Poet and Translator. Roman Catholic. From 1816 studies at the new Warsaw University. From 1823 worked as teacher, school director and librarian in Grodno. From 1840 Curator and 1844 Director of gymnasium in Białystok. He had…
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…
KÖNIG, Friedrich Wilhelm. Adlerkosteletz (Kostelic nad Orlici), Bohemia 7.1.1897 — Vienna 5.2.1972. Austrian Historian of Ancient Iran and the Near East. Son of railway officer, educated in Vienna. After gymnasium in Vienna voluntary in Russian front 1915-17, lost his left leg and one eye. Now continued his studies of Sanskrit,…
KLATT, Johannes Emil Otto. Filehne, Posen (now Wieleń, Poland) 31.10.1852 — Bonn 27.8.1903. German Indologist. Son of postmaster Friedrich Michael Klatt (1806–1880) and Caroline Fiedler. After gymnasium in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) from 1868 studies of Indology under Weber at Berlin (also classical philology and history). Ph.D. 1873 Halle (A. F. Pott). Worked…
KAMPTZ, Joachim Friedrich Ludolf Bernhard Max Wilhelm Hermann Eggerd Kurt von. Hildesheim 19.8.1897 — 1941. German Librarian and former Student of Indology. Son of Prussian Oberregierungsrat Kurt von Kamptz (1857–1936) and Margarete von Uslar-Gleichen (1869-1937), of a family of ancient Mecklenburgian nobility (“Uradel”). Student of Schubring at Hamburg, Ph.D. 1929…
HUNFALVY, Pál (born Paul Hundsdorfer). Nagyszalók (now Velký Slavkov in Slovakia) 12.3.1810 — Budapest 30.11.1891. Hungarian Linguist. Librarian in Budapest. Born in a poor farmer family with German background, son of Ján Hundsdorfer and Mária Wesler. Learned Hungarian only as student, but became increasingly Hungarian-minded and changed his name. His…
HERBIG, Gustav. Kaiserslautern 3.6.1868 — Munich 1.10.1925. German IE Linguist and Etruscologist. Professor in Rostock and Munich. Son of Johann Heinrich Herbig (1839–1892), a tradesman, and Johanna Gelbert. School in Munich, studies at Munich and Leipzig, Ph.D. 1895 Munich. From 1893 employed in Bavarian libraries, in 1899-1913 Librarian (Bibliothekar) in…
JONES, John James. New Quay, Cardiganshire 12.3.1892 — Aberystwyth? 20.2.1957. British (Welsh) Indologist. Son of Thomas Jones, a saddler, and Elizabeth Williams. After school in New Quay and Aberaeron studies of Classics at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1911-14 (M.A.). Worked nine years as school-teacher of Latin in…
JØRGENSEN, Hans Jensen. Oksbøl Mark, Als Island (then Prussian Schleswig-Holstein, now Denmark) 4.3.1886 — Copenhagen 6.2.1954. Danish Indologist (Newari Scholar). Born as Prussian citizen in a Danish peasant family, parents Jens Hansen Jørgensen (1855–1919) and Helene Christiansen, educated at Oksbøl school and Haderslev gymnasium. From 1906 studies of classical and…