LORIMER, D. L. R.

LORIMER, David Lockhart Robertson. Strathmarkine near Dundee 24.12.1876 — Hatfield, Hertfordshire 25.2.1962. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Linguist and Indo-Iranian Scholar. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Rev. Robert Lorimer (1840–1925) and Isabella Lockhart Robertson (1849–1931), brother of —> J. Gordon Lorimer (1870–1914), —> Florence M. G. Lorimer (1883–1967), Emilia H. L. Lorimer, also…

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LEITNER, Gottlieb Wilhelm

LEITNER, Gottlieb Wilhelm. Pest 14(17?).10.1840 — Bonn 22.3.1899. Austro-Hungarian Indologist and Anthropologist in the U.K. and India. Professor in Lahore. Son of Leopold Saphir, a physician, of Austrian Jewish family living in Hungary. Father died early and his mother, Marie Henriette Herzberg, remarried Johann Moritz Leitner (a Protestant Christian convert)…

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