Kurt Tropper is an Austrian Tibetologist and scholar specializing in Tibetan inscriptions and the cultural history of the Western Himalayas. He authored 'The Founding Inscription in the Gser Khan of Lalung (Spiti, Himachal Pradesh)', which provides an edition and annotated translation of one of the oldest extant literary documents from Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, establishing a basis for further research on this intricate historical record.