KERN, Johan Caspar Hendrik. Poerworedjo, Bagelen, Central Java 6.4.1833 — Utrecht 4.7.1917. Dutch Indologist and Indonesian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. Son of a colonial officer, Johan Hendrik Kern (1799–1863) and Marta Corradina Schindler (1803/04–1894), came from Java to the Netherlands with his parents in the age of seven to start…
KERBAKER, Michele. Turin 10.9.1836 — Naples 20.9.1914. Italian Indologist. Professor in Naples. Son of Luigi Kerbaker. Lost early his mother and after the new marriage of father was educated by his ecclesiastic uncle Gaetano Kerbaker. Studied classical philology at Turin (degree 1857), soon became interested in Indology and learnt it…
KENT, Roland Grubb. Wilmington, Del. 24.2.1877 — Bryn Mawr, Pa. 27.6.1952. U.S. Latin, IE and Iranian scholar. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Lindley Coates Kent (1844–1916), a lumber merchant, and Anna Grubb (1855–1901). Educated at Swarthmore College. A.B. 1895, B.Litt. 1896, A.M. 1898. Further studies in 1899-1900 at Berlin, 1900…
KELLGREN, Abraham Herman August. Kuopio 21.1.1822 — Helsinki 25.9.1856. Finnish Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in Helsinki. Son of Johan August Kellgren (1792–1859), an apothecary of Swedish origin, and Maria Magdalena Nylander (1798–1826). Educated at Helsingfors Lyceum in 1833-38 and from 1838 studied at Helsinki University. His original intention was to…
KAPPUS, Carl. Frankfurt a. M. 6.3.1879 — Berlin (West) 17.5.1951. German Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Son of Heinrich Hector Kappus, a bank employee. After gymnasium in Frankfurt from 1898 studies of French and classics at Marburg (1899-1900 at Berlin), soon also comparative linguistics. Ph.D. 1903 Marburg (under…
HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Carl Ferdinand, Freiherr von. Potsdam 22.6.1767 — Tegel bei Berlin 8.4.1835. German Diplomat and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of the Prussian Kammerherr and Major Alexander Georg von Humboldt (1720–1779, his father Johannes Paul von Humboldt had obtained the Prussian title of nobility in 1738) and…
HOUGHTON, Herbert Pierrepont. Brooklyn, NY 22.1.1880 — Wellesley Hills, MA 11.5.1964. Rev. U.S. Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit and Linguistics. Son of Joseph Goodhue Houghton (1842–1916) and Sarah Pierrepont Edwards. B.A. 1901 and M.A. 1904 Amherst College. Ph.D. 1907 Johns Hopkins (diss. on Greek), also studied at Princeton. In 1908-15…
HOROVITZ, Josef (Chajim). Lauenburg, Pommern (Lębork in Poland) 26.7.1874 — Frankfurt 5.2.1931. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Born in a Jewish family, son of the orthodox Rabbi and historian Marcus Horovitz (1844–1910, originally from Hungary) and Auguste Ettlinger, brother of the Rabbi and philologist Jacob Horovitz (1873–1939). Educated in Frankfurt a.M.…
HOLTZMANN, Adolf Karl Wilhelm (der ältere). Karlsruhe 2.5.1810 — Heidelberg 3.7.1870. German Indologist and Germanist. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of Johann Michael Holtzmann (1774–1820), a teacher (at Lyceum), and Christiane Fetzer, brother of Karl Julius Holtzmann (1804–1877), the father of the younger —> Adolf Holtzmann (1838–1914) From 1828 studies of…
HOFINGER, Marcel François Joseph Julien. Liège-Angleur 29.12.1913 — Liège 10.1.1997. Abbé. Belgian Indologist, Buddhist and Classical Scholar. Professor in Louvain-la-Neuve. In 1931-37 studies of philology and theology at Liège, then classical and Oriental philology at Louvain (Lamotte). Dr. en Philol. et Histoire Orientale 1946 Université Catholique Louvain (Leuven). In 1942-49…