George J. Kern [SEP] position held
George J. Kern
George J. Kern (1850–1918) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Biography.
Kern was born on April 6, 1850 in Herman, Dodge County, Wisconsin. In 1868, he moved to Sullivan, Wisconsin.
Career.
Kern was elected to the Assembly in 1900 and was re-elected in 1902. Additionally, he served as Assessor and Supervisor of Sullivan and a member of the Jefferson County, Wisconsin Board. He was Democrat.
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Chair of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies when the position was created at the Insituut Kern (the Indological institute at the Univ. of Leiden). In 1957, de Jong founded the "Indo-Iranian Journal" with Univ. of Leiden colleague F. B. J. Kuijper in 1957 in order to facilitate the publishing of scholarly articles in Indology. In 1965, he moved to Australia to become professor of Indology at the Australian National University in Canberra, a position he held until his retirement in 1986.
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