LOTTNER, Carl Friedrich. Berlin 20.6.1834 — Dublin 5.4.1873. German Celtic and IE Linguist in Ireland. Professor in Dublin. Son of general counsel, Justizrat Franz August Lottner (1796–1836) and Juliane Caroline Wilhelmine Sander. After school and Gymnasium in Berlin studied in 1851-54 at Berlin under Bopp and Grimm. Worked as schoolteacher,…
LOTSPEICH, Claude Meek. Knoxville, Tenn. 28.6.1880 — Cincinnati, Ohio 13.4.1966. U.S. Linguist. Son of Jacob Orville Lotspeich (1855–1900) and Ida Sevier Meek (1858–1894). Studies at Leipzig. Ph.D. For 45 years he was Professor of Comparative and English Philology at University of Cincinnati. Married 1907 Helen Wilson Gibbons (1881–1955), four sons…
LORIMER, David Lockhart Robertson. Strathmarkine near Dundee 24.12.1876 — Hatfield, Hertfordshire 25.2.1962. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Linguist and Indo-Iranian Scholar. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Rev. Robert Lorimer (1840–1925) and Isabella Lockhart Robertson (1849–1931), brother of —> J. Gordon Lorimer (1870–1914), —> Florence M. G. Lorimer (1883–1967), Emilia H. L. Lorimer, also…
LORENTZ, Friedrich Wilhelm Oloff Johannes. Güstrow 28.12.1870 — Zoppot (Sopot near Gdansk) 27.4.1937. German Slavist. Son of Friedrich Ludwig Ernst Lorentz and Luise Maria Karolina Brunswig. Studied IE and Slavonic linguistics at Leipzig (under Brugmann and Leskien), Ph.D. 1894 there. Lived as private scholar in Wismar, then in Karthaus (now…
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…
LINDSAY, Thomas Bond. New York City 28.4.1853 — Glenview, KY 22.7.1909. U.S. Philologist. Professor in Boston. Son of John W. Lindsay. Studies in 1865-68 at Genessee Wesleyan Seminar, 1869 Boston Latin School, M.A. 1874 American Wesleyan University. In 1874-77 further studies in Germany. Ph.D. 1882 Boston University. In 1877-88 taught…
LIGNANA, Giacomo. Tronzano Vercellese, Piemonte 19.12.1827 (hardly 1830) — Rome 10.2.1891 (or 10.1. or 10.12.). Italian Linguist and Indologist. Professor in Naples and Rome. Born in a wealthy Piemontese noble family, son of Giuseppe Lignana and Margherita Lebbole. Studies at Turin, then 1848-49 under Lassen at Bonn and Spiegel at…
LIEBERT, Karl Gösta. Torsby, Göteborgs & Bohus län 11.3.1916 — Sävsjö, Jönköpings län 17.11.1998. Swedish Indologist and Linguist. Son of Karl Julius Liebert, a physician, and Hilda Amalia Karlsson (1879–1917), an elementary school teacher. Matriculation 1935 from Gothenburg. Studies at Göteborg Högskola (kand.hum. 1935) and Lund (kand.phil. 1939, lic.phil. 1943).…
LIDÉN, Bror Per Evald. Skandared, Sandhult, Älvsborg län 3.10.1862 — Gothenburg 11.10.1939. Swedish Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor in Gothenburg. Son of farmer Gustaf Lidén (1824–1884) and Sissa Nilsson, educated in Borås and Jönköping. Studies at Uppsala from 1883: fil.kand. (M.A.) 1890, fil.lic. 1895. From 1895 PD of IE linguistics…
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,…