University of Berlin – Page 8 – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen

BANG KAUP, Willy

BANG KAUP, Willy (Willi, Johann Wilhelm Max Julius Bang Kaup). Wesel 8/9.8.1869 — Darmstadt 8.10.1934. German Linguist, Turkic and Iranian Scholar. Professor at Louvain and Berlin. Born in Germany by the Rhine near to the Belgian border, son of notary (later mayor) Heinrich Bang (1838–1896) and Auguste Kaup, went to…

ALSDORF, Ludwig Wilhelm

ALSDORF, Ludwig Wilhelm. Laufersweiler near Kirchberg in Hunsrück 8.8.1904 — Buchholz-Sprötze, Kr. Harburg 25.3.1978. German Indologist. Professor in Hamburg. Son of a minister, Hermann Alsdorf and Emilie Chelius. In 1911 the family moved to Scheidt in Saarland. He went to school in Saarbrücken (Ludwigs-Gymnasium). Began his studies in 1922 at…