HUNT, Mabel. 18?? — 19??. Miss. British Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Apparently among the students of Rhys Davids. At the time of her first index she had only started learning Pāli. Publications: “Index to the Paṭisambhidāmagga”, JPTS 6, 1908-12 (6:1, 1908), 152-179. – Index (rev. and ed. by C. A. F. Rhys Davids)…
HUNGERLEIDER, Fritz. Vienna 1920 — Vienna 1997. Austrian Bauddha. Born in a Catholic family, son of a Jewish merchant and Catholic mother. Studied at Handelsakademie. After matriculation in 1938 went to exile and came to Ceylon, then spent nine years 1938-47 in Shanghai. Then returned to Vienna. In 1958 again…
HUNFALVY, Pál (born Paul Hundsdorfer). Nagyszalók (now Velký Slavkov in Slovakia) 12.3.1810 — Budapest 30.11.1891. Hungarian Linguist. Librarian in Budapest. Born in a poor farmer family with German background, son of Ján Hundsdorfer and Mária Wesler. Learned Hungarian only as student, but became increasingly Hungarian-minded and changed his name. His…
HUMPHREYS, Travers Christmas (“Toby”). Ealing, Middlesex 15.2.1901 — London 13.4.1983. British Lawyer and Bauddha. Son of a lawyer, Travers H., and Zoë Marguerite Neumans (of Belgium). Educated at Malvern College. Studied at Cambridge (Trinity Hall), 1924 called to the Bar by Inner Temple. Worked as lawyer in various positions, 1950…
HUMMEL, Karl. Weiler, Kr. Lindau (Bodensee) 25.4.1902 — Weiler 26.12.1987. German Pharmacist, Botanist and former Student of Indology. Son of Max H., a pharmacist, and Philomena Wachter. After Benedictine Klostergymnasium in Augsburg studied Indology at Munich under Geiger. Ph.D. 1925 Munich. Planned a visit to Asia, but as this was…
HUME, Robert Ernest. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra 20.3.1877 — New York 4.1.1948. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Scholar of Religion. Professor in New York. Born in India as the son of missionary parents, Rev. Robert Allen Hume (1847–1929) and Abigail (Abbie) Lyon Burgess (d. 1881). Also his grandfather had been missionary in India.…
HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Carl Ferdinand, Freiherr von. Potsdam 22.6.1767 — Tegel bei Berlin 8.4.1835. German Diplomat and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of the Prussian Kammerherr and Major Alexander Georg von H. (1720–1779, his father Johannes Paul von H. had obtained the Prussian title of nobility in 1738) and…
HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von. Berlin 14.9.1769 — Berlin 6.5.1859. German Geographer and Explorer. Son of the Prussian Kammerherr and Major Alexander Georg von H. (1720–1779, his father Johannes Paul von H. had obtained the Prussian title of nobility in 1738) and Marie Elisabeth von Holwede (a widow, née von…
HULTZSCH, Eugen Julius Theodor. Dresden 29.3.1857 — Halle 16.1.1927. German Indologist and Epigraphist. Twenty years in India, then Professor in Halle. Son of Theodor H., a businessman, and Anna Greif, nephew of philologist Friedrich H. Educated in Dresden, from 1874 studied classical and Oriental languages (Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic) at…
HULBERT, Katherine W. 19.11.1909 — ?.11.1989. U.S. Physical Anthropologist. B.A., M.A. Ph.D. 1969 University of Colorado in Boulder. Teacher at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, retired. Then independent scholar in Boulder. From 1966 fieldwork in Kerala. Publications: Diss. A Study in Human Ecology. The Sea-Fishing people of the Southwest…