LEACH, Linda York. Michigan 31.8.1942 — 2006. U.S. Art Historian. Studies at University of Michigan. Ph.D. 1978 Case Western Reserve University. Specialist of Mughal art, especially miniatures. Married British civil servant John Critchley. They were living in Richmond, Surrey. Publications: Diss. Catalogue of Indian miniatures in the Cleveland Museum of…
KLEUKER, Johann Friedrich. Osterode am Harz 24.10.1749 — Kiel 31.5./1.6.1827. German Protestant theologian. Professor in Kiel. Son of shoemaker Johann Christian Kleuker (1715–1758) and Dorothea Magdalena Rose (1716–1770). From 1770 studied theology, philology and philosophy at Göttingen. Soon befriended with J. G. Herder. From 1778 secondary school principal in Osnabrück.…
KERŠNER-GORBUNOVA, Natal’ja Grigor’evna. Leningrad 2.3.1927 — 11.9.2000. Russian Archaeologist. Daughter of biologist Grigorij Petrovič Gorbunov (1894–1942) and Elena Mihajlovna Keršner, a music teacher. During WW II evacuated in Tashkent. From 1946 studied ancient history and archaeology of Central Asia in Leningrad. Graduated 1951 Leningrad. Kand. ist. nauk 1962. In 1951-58…
KAMMENHUBER, Annelies. Hamburg 19.3.1922 — Munich 14.12.1995. German Linguist and Hittite Scholar. Professor in Munich. Daughter of Georg Kammenhuber, a master locksmith, and Maria Hawranek, a Roman Catholic family. Grew up in Hamburg. Studied at Hamburg English, Romance, Latin, Indology, IE linguistics and philosophy in 1940-50 (delayed by the war),…
HYART, Charles. 1913 — 2004. Belgian Philologist. Studies at Liège (also Sanskrit with Fohalle). Taught Russian at Liège. Publications: Les contes de l’Inde. Brussels 1944. – “Le poème Nal’ i Damajanti de V. A. Zukovskij et l’original hindou”, Annuaire de l’Institut de philologie et d’histoire orientales et slaves 12 (= Mélanges…
HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth. Galesburg, Illinois 16.9.1876 — New Haven 17.10.1947. U.S. Geographer and Central Asian Explorer. Graduated from Beloit College 1897. M.A. 1902 Harvard. Ph.D. 1909 Yale. He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey (1897-1901), then accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905-1906) expeditions to Central Asia, in 1909 led an expedition…
HÜBSCHMANNOVÁ, Milena. Prague 10.6.1933 — Kameeldrift, South Africa 8.9.2005. Czech Indologist and Romani scholar. After school in Prague studied from 1951 Bengali and Hindi-Urdu at Prague. In 1953 met some Romanis and as going to India was not generally allowed in the communist country turned to Romani studies. Graduated 1956…
HUDSON, Dean Dennis. San Bernardino, Calif. 16.2.1938 — Northampton, Mass. 10.12.2006. U.S. Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of Dean Bradshaw Hudson (1902–1992) and Lisle McClellan. Ph.D. 1970 Claremont, California. From 1970 Professor of World Religions at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., retired as Professor in 2000. He made a…
HÖLTY, Arnold Karl Konrad. Jembke, dt. Gifhorn, Niedersachsen 11.8.1800 — 2.9.1857. German Theologian. Son of a priest. Studies ar Göttingen. From 1826 Lutheran Pastor in Uelzen (1836), 1838-42 Superintendet in Osterode, then in Lüneburg until 1852. Provost in Ruelzen 1852-57. Married. Publications: Dsjemschid, Feridun, Gustasp, Zoroaster: eine kritisch-historische Untersuchung über die beiden…
HEISSIG, Walter (Walther). Vienna 5.12.1913 — Rheinböllen 5.9.2005. Austrian Mongolian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Bonn. Studied Mongolian in the 1930s ar Vienna and Berlin. Joined SA 1932, 1934 switched to SS. From 1940 in Peking, also visited Inner Mongolia. Ph.D. 1941 Vienna. He remained the war years until 1946 in…