MANSION, Joseph. Ghent 9.1.1877 — Liège 8.11.1937. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Liège. Son of the mathematician Paul Mansion (1844–1919) and Marie-Cécile Belpaire. After school in Ghent he studied in 1894-99 classical philology and law at Université de Gand where he also learned Sanskrit under La Vallée Poussin. Ph.D. 1899 in…
MACHEK, Václav. Úhlejov, okr. Jičín/Neupaka 8.11.1894 — Brno 26.5.1965. Czechoslovakian Slavic, Vedic and IE Scholar. Professor in Brno. From 1914 studied at Prague Slavic, Baltic, Latin, IE and Sanskrit (under Zubatý). After interruption caused by WW I Ph.D. there 1921. In 1921-24 librarian of Slovakian Library in Paris, also further…
LUDWIG, Alfred. Vienna 9.10.1832 — Prague 12.6.1912. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Prague. Son of Johannes Ludwig, a teacher of French, and Ludowika Köckh, grew up in Vienna, matriculated from Akademisches Gymnasium. From 1852 studies of classical philology, IE linguistics and Sanskrit at Vienna (under Boller) and in 1855-57 at Berlin…
LOTTNER, Carl Friedrich. Berlin 20.6.1834 — Dublin 5.4.1873. German Celtic and IE Linguist in Ireland. Professor in Dublin. Son of general counsel, Justizrat Franz August Lottner (1796–1836) and Juliane Caroline Wilhelmine Sander. After school and Gymnasium in Berlin studied in 1851-54 at Berlin under Bopp and Grimm. Worked as schoolteacher,…
LOTSPEICH, Claude Meek. Knoxville, Tenn. 28.6.1880 — Cincinnati, Ohio 13.4.1966. U.S. Linguist. Son of Jacob Orville Lotspeich (1855–1900) and Ida Sevier Meek (1858–1894). Studies at Leipzig. Ph.D. For 45 years he was Professor of Comparative and English Philology at University of Cincinnati. Married 1907 Helen Wilson Gibbons (1881–1955), four sons…
LORENTZ, Friedrich Wilhelm Oloff Johannes. Güstrow 28.12.1870 — Zoppot (Sopot near Gdansk) 27.4.1937. German Slavist. Son of Friedrich Ludwig Ernst Lorentz and Luise Maria Karolina Brunswig. Studied IE and Slavonic linguistics at Leipzig (under Brugmann and Leskien), Ph.D. 1894 there. Lived as private scholar in Wismar, then in Karthaus (now…
LOMMEL, Hermann. Erlangen 7.7.1885 — Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria 5.10.1968. German Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Frankfurt. Born in an academic family, son physicist Eugen von Lommel (1837–1899) and Luise Hegel (1853–1924, granddaughter of the philosopher). From 1905 studies of IE linguistics at Munich and from 1907 at Göttingen, now under…
LOHMANN, Johannes Friedrich. Diensthoop, Kreis Verden, Niedersachsen 9.7.1895 — Freiburg i. Br. 3.5.1989. German IE Linguist. Professor in Freiburg. Son of a farmer. Matriculated in 1914 from Verden, then in 1914-18 participated in the WW I. Studies of Slavonic and from 1921 classical philology at Berlin. Ph.D. 1923 Berlin. From…
LIGNANA, Giacomo. Tronzano Vercellese, Piemonte 19.12.1827 (hardly 1830) — Rome 10.2.1891 (or 10.1. or 10.12.). Italian Linguist and Indologist. Professor in Naples and Rome. Born in a wealthy Piemontese noble family, son of Giuseppe Lignana and Margherita Lebbole. Studies at Turin, then 1848-49 under Lassen at Bonn and Spiegel at…
LIEBERT, Karl Gösta. Torsby, Göteborgs & Bohus län 11.3.1916 — Sävsjö, Jönköpings län 17.11.1998. Swedish Indologist and Linguist. Son of Karl Julius Liebert, a physician, and Hilda Amalia Karlsson (1879–1917), an elementary school teacher. Matriculation 1935 from Gothenburg. Studies at Göteborg Högskola (kand.hum. 1935) and Lund (kand.phil. 1939, lic.phil. 1943).…