LORINSER, Carl Maria Franz. Berlin 12.3.1821 — Breslau 12.11.1893. German Catholic Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Born of a family originally coming from Bohemia, the only child of Karl Ignatius Lorinser (1796–1853), a physician, and Auguste Fritze. In 1825 the family moved to Oppeln, Upper Silesia (Opole in Poland). After school…
LORD, Henry. Oxfordshire 1563 (?) — 16??. Rev. British Clergyman in India. Matriculated from Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1580, apparently never graduated. Worked as curate. From 1625–29 chaplain of the British factory in Surat, and possibly remained little longer in India, returning in 1630. His later life and time of…
LONG, James. Bandon, Cork 1814 — 23.3.1887. Rev. British (Anglo-Irish) Anglican Missionary in India. While earlier sources claim that of his background little is known, but in any case he passed some time in Russia, Wikipedia referring to Oddie knows that he was the son of John and Anne Long…
LING, Trevor Oswald. London 17.2.1920 — Long Eaton, Derbyshire 24.3.1995. British Scholar of Comparative Religion and Buddhism. Son of Albert Oswald Ling and Emma Meachen. Started to study for Baptist ministry, but in war service went to India. In Calcutta he met Hindu thought and started to learn Sanskrit and…
LINDQUIST, Carl Sigurd. Ugglum, Skaraborgs län 12.6.1895 — 11.8.1943. Swedish Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of Johan Leonard L., a farmer, and Ida Maria Westerling. After school in Uppsala, from 1914 studies at Uppsala. Fil.kand. 1915, Teol.kand. 1918, Fil.lic. 1920 (under K. F. Johansson), Ph.D. 1932 Uppsala. Ordained as…
LEHMANN, Erich Arno. Kaitz near Dresden 23.5.1901 — Halle 21.4.1984. German Missionary and Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Professor in Halle. Son of an insurance official, lost his father when 4. After Lutheran missionary seminary in Leipzig (ordained priest), in 1926–34 worked as a missionary teacher of Leipzig Mission at Shirkali in…
LEGGE, James. Huntly, Aberdeenshire 20.12.1815 — Oxford 29.11.1897. British (Scottish) Missionary and Sinologist. Professor in Oxford. Son of Ebenezer Legge (1772–1848), a prosperous businessman, and Elspeth Cruikshank (1781–1817). Educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. Studied mathematics and graduated 1835 from King’s College, Aberdeen, but then turned to theology. After studies Highbury…
KORVIN-KRASINSKI, Cyrill von (also written Korwin-Kr., Polish Cyryl Krasiński, lay Jan Kasímierz hr. Korwin-Krasiński). Mszana Dolna (then Austria, now Poland) 5.9.1905 — Maria Laach 1992. German (born Polish) Theologian and Scholar of Symbolism and Tibetan Medicine. Son of Henryk Piotr Zygmunt Krasiński (1866–1928). Studies in Paris and Innsbruck. Ph.D. 1948…
KOPPERS, Wilhelm. Menzelen near Xanten, Rheinland 8.2.1886 — Vienna 23.1.1961. Father. German Ethnologist, Catholic Priest and Theologian in Austria. Professor in Vienna. Son of a poor day labourer (later small farmer). He joined early the Society of the Divine Word (Societas Verbi Divini, S.V.D.) and was educated at its gymnasium…
KNOWLES, James Hinton (James Hinton-Knowles?). Clerkenwell, London 1856 — Ely, Cambridgeshire 22.12.1943. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of John Hinton Knowles and Eliza Lane. He worked from 1876 for Church Missionary Society in Srinagar, Kashmir, where he was the director of Mission’s boys’ school 1880-91, and eagerly studied on…