KUCHARSKI, Heinz. Hamburg 22.7.1919 — Markranstädt, Kr. Leipzig 8.10.2000. German Ethnologist of South Asia. Son of engineer Walter K. After school in Hamburg from 1938 studies of philosophy, ethnology and Oriental languages. He was Communist and was imprisoned by Gestapo in 1943, in April 1945 narrowly escaped execution through the…
KILIAN, Lothar. Nidden (Nida near Klaipeda) 12.10.1911 — 12.3.2000 or 1999. German Archaeologist and IE Scholar. Ph.D. 1939 Königsberg. Participated in WW II, was war prisoner and only returned in 1949. In 1951-54 Assistant at Bonn. From 1957 kustos in Landesmuseum Trier. After retiring living in Bonn. Both Lithuanian sources…
JISL, Lumír. Svijanský Újezd, Liberec region 18.4.1921 — Prague 22.11.1969. Czech Scholar of Tibetan, Mongolian and Japanese, a Specialist of Buddhist Art. After school in Toruń from 1940 studies of archaeology and ethnography at Prague. In the wartime worked as insurance official in Liberec, then continued studies (graduated 1949). From…
HENDERSON, John Robertson. Melrose, Roxburghshire 21.5.1863 — Edinburgh 26.10.1925. British (Scottish) Zoologist in India. Son of Edward H., a revenue official, and Jessie Louttit Robertson. Educated at Dulwich College and Dollar Academy. Studies of medicine at Edinburgh (MB ChB 1884), became interested in marine zoology and began fieldwork. In 1885…
HEAD, Barclay Vincent. Ipswich, Suffolk 2.1.1844 — London 12.6.1914. British Numismatist. From 1864 working in British Museum, soon (1870) as Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals. Retired in 1906. Married with Mary, at least one daughter. Publications: Edited a number of coin catalogues of British Museum, wrote on…
HÁJEK, Lubor. Nové Strašecí, Rakovnik region 5.5.1921 — Prague 2.3.2000. Czech Art Historian. Studies of Indology at Prague 1945-49 (Lesný and Pertold). Ph.D. 1949 Prague (under Pertold). From 1952 Director of Oriental Collections at Czech National Gallery, retired in 1986. Publications: Diss. Poměr náboženský a pohavního pudu v tantrismu. Manuscript,…
GOIDSENHOVEN, Jacques P. van. 4.7.1932 (?) — 23.11.1971. Belgian Art Historian. But birth year seems to be wrong, he was already publishing in 1936 and worked then in Musées royaux d’Art et d‘Histoire. In an e-mail 19.11.2021 Claudine Bautze-Picron informs me that J. P. van G. of the 1954 publication…
COCKBURN, John. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Prehistory. Served in Opium Department (1879/83). In 1879 characterized as “late Curator of the Allahábád Museum, Officiating Assistant Osteologist, Indian Museum, Calcutta.” Publications: “Notes on Stone Implements from the Khasi Hills, and the Bhanda and Vellore Districts”, JASB…
BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries. Rotterdam 13.1.1857 — Batavia (Jakarta) 26.6.1906. Dutch Indonesian Philologist and Archaeologist. Son of a Lutheran priest, Johannes Henrikus Br. and Maria Cornelia Gude. Aften school in Amsterdam studied 1874-79 theology (but also Sanskrit) at Amsterdam Athenaeum (now A. university), in 1879-83 Indology at Leiden (in preparation…
BERGMAN, Folke. Stockholm 29.8.1902 — Stockholm 22.5.1946. Swedish Central Asian Archaeologist. Matriculated 1922 from Norrmalm (Stockholm), studies at Uppsala. Participated in excavations in Visby, then in Sven Hedin’s Chinese expedition 1929-35 and found the tombs of Xiaohe in Lop Nur. In Sweden worked as Amanuens of East Asian collections in…