KRAUSE, Charlotte. Halle 18.5.1895 — Gwalior 27.1.1980. German Indologist in India. Daughter of Hermann Krause, a merchant, and his wife Anna. Matriculated 1914 from Dessau. From 1916 studied science at Marburg, soon also philosophy and history, at Leipzig, Tübingen and Berlin. Studies of Indology, German and linguistics at Tübingen (Garbe),…
KOHLER, Josef. Offenburg 9.3.1849 — Berlin-Charlottenburg 3.8.1919. German Legal Scholar interested in India. Son of an elementary school teacher, the elder Josef Kohler (1808–1874) and Amalie Schmieder, educated in Offenburg and Rastatt. Studies of law at Heidelberg and Freiburg, promotion 1873. After some time as attorney in Mannheim became without…
KESARCODI-WATSON, Ian. 1938 — ?.5.1984. Australian (?) Scholar of Indian Religion. Grew up as Baptist, but soon turned away from it. Studies at Melbourne, Oxford and McMaster (Arapura). Ph.D. 1982 Poona. Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Hong Kong c. 1971-75. In 1975-84 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe…
KEITH, Arthur Berriedale. Portobello (Edinburgh) 5.4.1879 — Edinburgh 6.10. 1944. British (Scottish) Indologist and Scholar of Law. Professor in Edinburgh. Son of an advertiser, Davidson Keith (1842–1921), and Margaret Stobie Drysdale (1851–1922), educated at Royal High School. Studies at Edinburgh University (B.A. 1896, M.A. 1897), and from 1897 at Balliol…
HURVITZ, Leon Nahum. Cambridge, MA 4.8.1923 — Vancouver 28.9.1992. U.S. Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Son of Benjamin S. Hurvitz (1893–1971) and Rachel Rose Marcus, educated in Boston. Studies of Classics at Chicago, then war service in U.S. Army. After the WW II worked as interpreter in Japan, also studies there.…
HULTZSCH, Eugen Julius Theodor. Dresden 29.3.1857 — Halle 16.1.1927. German Indologist and Epigraphist. Twenty years in India, then Professor in Halle. Son of Theodor Hultzsch (1831–1904), a businessman, and Anna Greiff, nephew of classical philologist Friedrich Hultzsch (1833–1906). Educated in Dresden, from 1874 studied classical and Oriental languages (Sanskrit, Persian…
HORSCH, Paul. Oberegg, Canton Appenzell 9.9.1925 — Mahabalipuram, India 27.12.1971. Swiss Indologist. Professor in Zürich. Son of Otto Horsch, a chemist, educated 1932-42 at local school, 1941-43 at Appenzell Gymnasium and 1943-46 at Cantonal School in Zug. Studies of Indology, history of religion and philosophy at Fribourg (under Regamey) and…
HOISINGTON, Henry Richard. Vergennes, Vermont 23.8.1801 — Centerbrook, CT 6.5.1858. U.S. Missionary and Tamil Scholar in South Asia. Son of Job Hoisington (1762–1813), a carpenter and militia officer, and Sarah Elizabeth Knabb. Grew up in Buffalo, NY. He became a printer and worked in Utica and New York City, but…
HOFFMANN, Ernst Lothar (Lama Anagarika B. Govinda). Waldheim, Sachsen 14.1.1898 — Mill Valley, California 14.1.1985. German Bauddha. Son of a German father, the owner of a cigar factory, and Bolivian mother, who died when he was three. Became early interested in Buddhism through Schopenhauer. Matriculated in Hannover, in WW I…
HEIMANN, Betty. Wandsbeck bei Hamburg 29.3.1888 — Sirmione at the Lake Garda 19.5.1961. German Indologist in the U.K. and Sri Lanka. British citizen 1939. Daughter of banker Isaac Heimann (1844–1899) and Margarethe Levy (1853–1925), father died when she was 10. After school (Johanneum) in Hamburg studied classical philology and Indology…