FRASER, Hugh. India 1851 — Woking (?) 28.1.1920. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Colonel Hugh. Fr. (1808–1858) of Indian army and Florence Charlotte Penney. Magistrate and Collector in Bijnour (1894). Married. Publications: “Folklore from Eastern Gorakhpur (N.-W.P.), ed. by G. A. Grierson”, JASB 52:1, 1883, 1-32 (with a…
COSQUIN, Emmanuel. Vitry-le-François (Marne) 25.6.1841 — ibid. 18.4.1919. French Folklorist. Studied law, but turned to journalist career. The work of Grimm brothers led him to collect and study popular narratives. Corresponding member of A.I.B.L. 1902, from now on concentrated on his studies. Already in his 1886 book he claimed that…
COLE, Frederick Thomas. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in India. In Agra, from 1873 in Santal Mission of Church Missionary Society in Taljhari, Rajmahal. In 1891 in England, apparently living in 1900. Publications: “Santhâli Folklore”, IA 4, 1875, 10-12, 257-259; “Santali Riddles”, IA 4, 1875, 164; “The Rajmahal Hillmen’s Songs”,…
PARKER, Henry. 1849 — 19??. British Engineer and Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Arrived in 1873 and in 1873-1904 worked as Irrigation Officer at Public Works Department, serving in different parts of the island. Interest in ancient reservoirs led him to archaeology. At the same time he achieved an important…
MILLS, James Philip. Cheshire 18.2.1890 — Dorset 12.5.1960. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of James Edward M. and Ada Smith, educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Entered I.C.S. 1913, served in Assam, from 1916 in Naga Hills District. Honorary Director of Ethnography for Assam 1930,…
LOVARINI, Emilio. Vicenza (or Lovadina) 7.4.1866 — Lovadina, Treviso 31.1.1955. Italian Philologist interested in Indology. Graduated from Padova in 1889 with Indological dissertation. Schoolteacher in Ragusa, Catanzaro, Taranto and from 1895 in Cesena. From 1900 Docent of Italian Literature at Bologna University and teacher of the same in R. Liceo…
LIEBRECHT, Felix. Namslau, Preussisch-Schlesien (now Namysłów, Poland) 13.3.1812 — St.Hubert, Belgian Luxembourg 3.8.1890. German Scholar of Classical Philology and Narrative Literature in Belgium. Professor in Liège. Studies at Breslau, Munich and Berlin, then private scholar. From 1849 Professor of German at Collège communal, then at Athénée royal in Liège. Retired…
LEYEN, Friedrich von der. Bremen 19.8.1873 — Kirchseeon bei München 8.6.1966. German Germanist and Scholar of Folk Literature and Narrative Traditions. Son of Alfred v.d.L. (1844–1934, lawyer and official) and Luise Kapp (1852–1908). After gymnasium in Berlin studies at Marburg, Leipzig and Berlin. Ph.D. 1894 Berlin, in Old German literature.…
LE MESURIER, Cecil John Reginald. Cephalonia, Ionian Islands 7.2.1855? — 11.2.1932. British Colonial Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Cecil Brooke Le M. and his Greek wife Nicolina Zancarol (married 1854). In 1881 already in Ceylon. In 1896 dismissed from service on ground of having converted to Islam and…
LE COQ, Albert von. Dahlem, Berlin 8.9.1860 — Berlin 21.4.1930. German Archaeologist and Central Asian Scholar. Born in a huguenot family in Berlin, son of André Auguste Le Coq (1827–1894; knighted “von” 1875) and Marianne Poppe. He was educated at Französisches Gymnasium (Berlin) and at Darmstadt gymnasium, but was dismissed…