LINGAT, Robert Arthur. Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) 22.12.1892 — Paris 7.5.1972. French Lawyer, Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar, long time in South-East Asia. After school in Charleville and law degree in Paris studied Sanskrit, Pāli (under H. Smith) and Thai (Lorgeou). In the WW I he served as interpreter for forces sent by…
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…
LINDNER, Martin Traugott Bruno. Leipzig 25.10.1853 — Dresden 20.5.1930. German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. Son of the notorious Wilhelm Bruno Lindner (1814–1876) and Benedicta Engel. The father was Professor of Theology at Leipzig, but lost his position and was sentenced to prison in 1860 for 6 years because of repeated…
LILLIE, George Arthur Howard. North End, Fulham, London 24.2.1831 — Kensington, London 28.11.1911. British Colonial Officer in India and a Lay Scholar. Lieutenant. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Scott L. and Louisa Sutherland. After Addiscombe came to India in 1848. Served in the Regiment of Lucknow. In India he is…
LIEBENTHAL, Walter. Königsberg 12.6.1886 — Tübingen 15.11.1982. German Indologist, Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Peking and Santiniketan. Son of Robert L. (1854–1942), an attorney, and Grete Becken. In 1899 the family moved to Berlin, then gymnasium there. After a brief period of university studies of law he started in…
LÉVI, Sylvain. Paris 28.3.1863 — Paris 30.10.1935. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of Louis-Philippe L., a Jewish cloth merchant, and Pauline Bloch, the family came from Alsace. After Lycée Charlemagne studies in Paris, first Greek, but soon (from 1882) Indology under Bergaigne et al. From 1885 taught himself Sanskrit…
LESSING, Ferdinand Dietrich. Essen-Altenessen 26.2.1882 — Berkeley 31.12.1961. German Sinologist and Central Asian Scholar in the U.S.A. U.S. citizen 1946. Professor in Berkeley. Gymnasium in Lingen, matriculated in 1902. Studies of Chinese and Russian in Berlin (diplom 1905), guided by F. W. K. Müller. From 1907 on spent 17 years…
LEROY, Maurice Alphonse Lucien. Ath 23.1.1909 — Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels 3.3.1990. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Brussels. Son of Georges Leroy and Charlotte Huet. Studies of classical philology, Docteur en Philosophie et Lettres 1931 Bruxelles. Worked as schoolteacher in Brussels. In 1935-37 further studies in Paris: at É.P.H.É. under Bloch, Vendryes, Vaillant…
LE ROUX DESHAUTESRAYES, Michel-Ange-André (des Hautesrayes). Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Pontoise 10.9.1724 — Rueil Malmaison near Paris 9.2.1795. French Orientalist and Sinologist, a Pioneer of Buddhist Studies. Professor in Paris. Son of Antoine Le R. H. and Catherine Geneviève Fourmont. Through his mother nephew of the Orientalist brothers Etienne and Michel Fourmont,…