University of Würzburg – Page 2 – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen

BLATT, Heinrich

BLATT, Heinrich. Steinbach am Glan 10.3.1894 — 1.4.1949. German Indologist. Librarian in Würzburg. After gymnasium in Speyer studies of classical philology at Munich, Leipzig, Berlin and Würzburg. Ph.D. 1923 Erlangen. From 1927 he was working at University Library (Staatsbibliothek an d. Universitätsbibl.) in Würzburg, little before his death (1946) moved…

BECKER, Christophorus (Christoph Edmund)

BECKER, Christophorus (born Christoph Edmund B.). Elsoff near Frankfurt 22.10.1875 — Würzburg 30.3.1937. S.D.S. German Catholic Missionary in India and Scholar of Missiology and Indian Ethnography. Dr.phil. and Dr.theol. A Salvatorian, ordained priest 1898. Docent 1900. From 1906 Apostolic Prefect of Assam in Shillong, India, formally until 1921, but interned…