Quotes:Kern, Jan Hendrik Caspar

Zirkoff, Boris

Kern, Jan Hendrik Caspar. Dutch Orientalist, b. April 6, 1833, in Java, of Dutch parents; d. 1917. Educated at Utrecht, Leiden and Berlin, where he was pupil of Albrecht Weber. For some years professor of Greek at Maestricht, then same at Benares, 1863, and at Leiden, 1865. Works: Geschiedenis van het Buddhismus in Indie. Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink, 1882-84. 2 vols. 8vo. (German trans, by H. Jacobi. Leipzig: O. Schulze, 1882-84). — *Over de Jaartelling der zuidelijke buddhisten en de gedenkstukken van Açoka den buddhist. Amsterdam: Royal Academy of Sciences, 1873. 20 pp. — The Saddharmapundartka, or the Lotus of the True Law. Trans. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 21.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 376