HÜBSCHMANNOVÁ, Milena. Prague 10.6.1933 — Kameeldrift, South Africa 8.9.2005. Czech Indologist and Romani scholar. After school in Prague studied from 1951 Bengali and Hindi-Urdu at Prague. In 1953 met some Romanis and as going to India was not generally allowed in the communist country turned to Romani studies. Graduated 1956…
HUDSON, Dean Dennis. San Bernardino, Calif. 16.2.1938 — Northampton, Mass. 10.12.2006. U.S. Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of Dean Bradshaw Hudson (1902–1992) and Lisle McClellan. Ph.D. 1970 Claremont, California. From 1970 Professor of World Religions at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., retired as Professor in 2000. He made a…
HOLLINGBERY, William. 1767? — 1809. British Civil Servant in India. Served in Hyderabad residence, 1799-1801 participated in Malcolm’s embassy to Persia. Publications: A History of His Late Highness Nizam Alee Khaun, Soobah of the Dekhan. 9+22+58+73+38 p. Calcutta 1805. – A Journal of Observations, Made During the British Embassy to…
HÖLTY, Arnold Karl Konrad. Jembke, dt. Gifhorn, Niedersachsen 11.8.1800 — 2.9.1857. German Theologian. Son of a priest. Studies ar Göttingen. From 1826 Lutheran Pastor in Uelzen (1836), 1838-42 Superintendet in Osterode, then in Lüneburg until 1852. Provost in Ruelzen 1852-57. Married. Publications: Dsjemschid, Feridun, Gustasp, Zoroaster: eine kritisch-historische Untersuchung über die beiden…
HOECK, Karl Friedrich Christian. Oelber am Weißen Wege, Wolfenbüttel 13.5.1794 — Göttingen 13.1.1877. German Classical Philologist and Historian. After gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel studied 2012-16 Classics at Göttingen (under Heeren et al.). From 1814 employed in Göttingen University. Ph.D. 1818., soon (still 1818) PD, ao. Professor 1823, ord. 1831. From 1845…
HILLER, Hiram Milliken, Jr. near Kahoka, Clark county, Missouri 8.3.1867 — Bellefonte, PA 8.8.1921. U.S. Physician, Explorer, and Ethnographer. Son of Colonel Hiram Milliken Hiller, Sr. (1834–1895) and Sarah Fulton Bell. Graduated B.S. 1887 from Parsons College, Iowa. Studied at the medical school of University of Pennsylvania (graduated 1891), met…
HENNINGS, August Adolph Friedrich. Pinneberg, Holstein 19.7.1746 — Rantzau, Holstein 17.5.1826. German-Danish politician, publicist and writer. Son of Staaatsrat Martin Nicolai Hennings. After gymnasium in Altona studied law and cameralism at Göttingen, dr.iuris 1766. Beside studies read Voltaire and Rousseau. From 1870-80/84 official in Danish service. Then moved to Sesvig…
HEISSIG, Walter (Walther). Vienna 5.12.1913 — Rheinböllen 5.9.2005. Austrian Mongolian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Bonn. Studied Mongolian in the 1930s ar Vienna and Berlin. Joined SA 1932, 1934 switched to SS. From 1940 in Peking, also visited Inner Mongolia. Ph.D. 1941 Vienna. He remained the war years until 1946 in…
HAURI, Christoph-Ernst. Binningen near Basel 17.10.1929 — 18.6.2005. Swiss Linguist. Son of a priest, gymnasium in Basel. Studies at Basel, Ph.D. 1960 there. From 1960 chargé de cours at Genève and Lausanne, in 1962-64 taught German at University of Texas in Houston, back in Switzerland from 1965 eo. Professor in…
HARTMANN, Gerda. Kiel 1908 — ????. Miss. German Student of Indology. Studies at Kiel, Ph.D. 1932. Around 1938 migrated to the U.S.A. and worked in the Library of Congress (1938/40). Publications: Diss. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Göttin Lakṣmī. 42 p. Wertheim a.M. 1933. – “Symbols of the nidānas in Tibetan…