LEYDEN, John Casper. Denholm, Cavers, Roxburghshire 8.9.1775 — Batavia (Jakarta) 28.8.1811 (or 10.9.?). British (Scottish) Physician and Orientalist, a Pioneer of South-East Asian Studies. Son of John Leyden, a shepherd, and Isabella Scott. He was educated at Kirktown parish school and Edinburgh University, learned Oriental languages already at home in Edinburgh…
KROM, Nicolaas Johannes. ’s-Hertogenbosch 5.9.1883 — Leiden 8.3.1945. Dutch Archaeologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of the Rijksarchivaris Cornelius Catharinus Nicolaas Krom (1855–1885) and Jeanne Marie Uranie Herderschee (1857–1931). After school in Nijmegen, from 1901 studies of law, from 1902 of classical philology, Sanskrit (Kern and Speyer), Javanese and comparative…
KERN, Johan Caspar Hendrik. Poerworedjo, Bagelen, Central Java 6.4.1833 — Utrecht 4.7.1917. Dutch Indologist and Indonesian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. Son of a colonial officer, Johan Hendrik Kern (1799–1863) and Marta Corradina Schindler (1803/04–1894), came from Java to the Netherlands with his parents in the age of seven to start…
KAHLO, Gerhard. Magdeburg 29.12.1893 — Cottbus 18.7.1974. German (East) Linguist, Anthropologist and Author. Son of Martin Kahlo, a teacher, and Clara Möhring. After school in Magdeburg studies of Classics, Germanistics, history and philosophy at Göttingen and Jena. Ph.D. 1919 Jena, after war service. After studies worked as gymnasium teacher, had…
HUNTER, William. Montrose, Angus 1755 — Java 15.12.1812. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of Thomas Hunter and May Charteris. Educated at Marischal College and Aberdeen University (M.A. 1777). M.D. 1808. Joined the E.I.C.’S medical service in 1781. As naval surgeon 1782 he was driven to Burma by a storm.…
HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Carl Ferdinand, Freiherr von. Potsdam 22.6.1767 — Tegel bei Berlin 8.4.1835. German Diplomat and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of the Prussian Kammerherr and Major Alexander Georg von Humboldt (1720–1779, his father Johannes Paul von Humboldt had obtained the Prussian title of nobility in 1738) and…
HOUTMAN, Frederick de. Gouda 1571 — Alkmaar 21.10.1627. Dutch Traveller. Son of Pieter Cornelisz de Houtman, a brewer, and Agnes Frederiksd., younger brother of —> Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599) and his companion in Lisbon and in Asian voyages. When the brother was killed he remained alive and was 26 months…
HOOYKAAS, Christiaan. Amersfoort 26.12.1902 — ’s-Gravenhage 13.8.1979. Dutch Sanskrit and Indonesian Scholar. Son of a vicar, Isaäc Hooykaas (1866–1944) and Eva Maria Faber. From 1921 studies of Sanskrit (Vogel), Arabic and Indonesian at Leiden, Ph.D. there 1929 in Javanese. In 1929-39 high school teacher in Java, mainly in Yogyakarta, in…
HINLOOPEN LABBERTON, Dirk van. Doesburg, Gelderland 24.9.1874 — Ojai, Calif. 3.9.1961. Dutch Theosophist interested in Sanskrit, lived a long time in Indonesia. Son of the bookseller Richard van Hinloopen Labberton (1840–1897) and Regina Henke van Assen. Matriculated 1893 from Arnhem, he went in 1894 to Indonesia and worked as employee…
HELD, Gerrit Jan. Kampen (Overijssel) 1.7.1906 — Jakarta 28.9.1955. Dutch Anthropologist in Indonesia. Son of Andries Held (d. 1908) and Hermina Rozenberg. After gymnasium in Kampen and military service, from 1926 studied Sanskrit, Old Javanese and Ethnology at Leiden. Ph.D. 1935 Leiden (under Josselin de Jong). In service of Nederlands…