MARCOVICH (Marković), Miroslav. Belgrad 18.3.1919 — Urbana, Ill. 14.6.2001. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Classical Scholar in America. Studies at Belgrade, graduated 1941. Participated in war as partisan under Tito, then 1946-54 Lecturer in Classical Philology at Belgrade. In 1953 went to India and worked at Visva-Bharati, in 1954 emigrated to Venezuela. In…
MANN, Stuart Edward (Stewart E. Mann). Nottingham 11.6.1905 — High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 5.8.1986. British Linguist. Son of Oliver Mann (1880–1959) and Mabel Constance Anderson. Studies at Bristol, graduated 1927 in Germanic studies. In 1929-31 in Tirana teaching English at school and learning Albanian, then teaching English at Masaryk University in…
MACKENZIE, David Neil. London 8.4.1926 — Bangor, Wales 13.10.2001. British Iranian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Göttingen. Son of David MacKenzie, educated in Slough, Windsor and Cambridge. In the WW II his mother and sister went to Canada, but he remained with his father. From November 1943 to December 1947 voluntary…
LAUF, Detlef Ingo. 1936 — 2001. German or Swiss (?) Tibetologist and Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Ph.D. Dipl.-Psych. He taught as Professor at C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, at Institute of Asian Studies in San Francisco, at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and at Columbia Pacific University in…
KOSSINNA, Gustaf. Tilsit, Ostpreussen (now Sovetsk in Russia) 28.9.1858 — Berlin 20.12.1931. German Archaeologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of a secondary-school teacher, Hermann Kossinna, and Natalie Genzmer. After gymnasium in Tilsit studied classics and Germanic philology at Göttingen, Leipzig, Berlin and Strassburg (diss. on German). Ph.D. 1887 Strassburg. In 1887-92…
KOLLÁR, Ján (Czech Jan K.). Mosóc (now Mošovce) 29.7.1793 — Vienna 24.1.1852. Slovakian Philologist, Poet and Translator. Son of the local mayor Matej Kollár and Katarina Frndová. After gymnasium in Pressburg (Bratislava) worked as teacher. In 1817-19 studied Lutheran theology at Jena. From 1819 priest in Slovakian church in Pest. In…
KNOROZOV, Jurij Valentinovič. Južny (now Pivdenne) near Harkiv, Ukraine 19.11.1922 — St.Petersburg 31.3.1999. Russian Linguist and Ethnographer. Born in Ukraine of Russian parents, Valentin Dmitrievič Knorozov and Aleksandra Sergeevna Makarova. From 1940 studied in Moscow, concentrating on Egyptology, but soon interrupted by war service in artillery. In 1945 continued his…
KITAGAWA, Joseph Mitsuo. Osaka 8.3.1915 — Chicago 7.10.1992. U.S. (Japanese-born) Scholar of Religion. U.S. citizen 1955. Born in a Christian Japanese family, his father, Chiyokichi Kitagawa, was episcopal priest, grew up in Japan. Studied theology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduated B.A. 1937. In 1941 went to the U.S.A. for…
JESTIN, Remont (Rieg, Rigakos J., also as Gestin, French Raymond-Riec Jestin). Landerneau, Brittany 1902 (or 1905?) — Menton (Coté d’Azur) 1991. French (Breton) Sumerologist and Philosopher. Studies at École du Louvre. Taught Sumerian as directeur d’études at É.P.H.É. in 1946-72. Also known as a painter. Publications: Ar Bouddha hag ar vouddhaadegezh. 128 p.…
JACOBY, Gustav Adolf (Adolphe). 9.3.1875 — 10.10.1943. German Theologian, Papyrologist, Coptologist and Scholar of Religion. Studies at Strassburg, vicar there in 1900-04. Minister in Weitersweilen (Rhineland) 1904-12, then many years in Luxemburg. Married Alice Schaller (b. 1878). Publications: Much on classical and Christian religion, also on Coptic literature. – “Zum Zerstückelungs- und…