HANNAH, Herbert Bruce

HANNAH, Herbert Bruce. Calcutta 1862 — Calcutta 10.10.1930. British Lawyer in India. Son of William Cooper Hannah (1817–1878) and Agnes Johnstone.  Many years before 1912 studied Tibetan in Darjeeling under Kazi Dawa Samdup. In 1910/25 living in Calcutta as High Court judge. Publications: A Grammar of the Tibetan Language, Literary…

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HANDT, Werner

HANDT, Werner. 18?? — 19??. German student of Indology. In 1899 he was in Greifswald. Ph.D. 1900 Tübingen (apparently student of Garbe). Publications: Diss. Die atomistische Grundlage der Vaiśeṣika-Philosophie nach den Quellen dargestellt. Manuscript, Tübingen, publ. 64 p. Rostock & Leipzig 1900 (there was then no forced printing at Tübingen…

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HAMMERICH, Martin

HAMMERICH, Martin Johannes. Copenhagen 4.12.1811 — Iselingen, Vordingborg 20.9.1881. Danish Scholar of Literature, Art Historian and Educator interested in Indology. Son of merchant Johannes Hammerich (1777–1852) and Meta Magdalena Adolph (1777–1823), a wealthy home. School in Christianshavn.. From 1830 studies at Copenhagen University, 1833 Cand. Theol., 1836 Mag. with a…

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HAMMERICH, Louis Leonor

HAMMERICH, Louis Leonor. Copenhagen 31.7.1892 — Hørsholm/Hillerød 1.11.1975. Danish Linguist (Germanist). Son of Kai August Hammerich (1861–1946), an official, and Louise Camille Bentzen. Matriculated 1910 from Roskilde. Studies at Copenhagen, Magister i Germ. filologi 1915, Ph.D. 1918. In 1919-20 Secretary of Danish Red Cross’ Berlin office, 1921-22 in Danish Delegation…

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HAMM, Frank-Richard

HAMM, Frank-Richard. Königsberg 8.10.1920 — Bonn 11.11.1973. German Indologist and Tibetan Scholar. Professor in Bonn. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard and Hedwig Hamm, moved with his parents to Hamburg in 1922 and matriculated there 1939. In 1940-41 studies i.al. of Indology, philosophy and ethnology at Hamburg (under Schubring, Zieseniss, E. Fraenkel…

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HAMILTON, J. H. F.

HAMILTON, John Herbert Fearnley (Fearnly). 1858? — Ratnapura 20.5.1894, when 36. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Peter Hamilton. Studied briefly at Oxford. Entered C.C.S. in 1879 and retired 12 years later as District Judge of Ratnapura (but Lewis lets us understand that he was still judge there…

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HAMILTON, Clarence H.

HAMILTON, Clarence Herbert. Des Moines, Iowa 8.1.1886 — Lexington, MA 6.7.1986, when 100. U.S. Buddhist Scholar. Missionary-Professor in China 1914-27. Son of George Lee Hamilton and Carrie Eva Wood. Educated at University of Chicago: A.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1914. In 1920-21 studied at Union Theological Seminar in New York. In 1914-27…

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HAMILTON, Charles

HAMILTON, Charles. Belfast 1752/53 — Hampstead, London 14.3.1792, when 39. British Colonial Officer in India. Probably son of Charles H., a merchant (d. 1759), and Katherine Mackay (d. 1767). Worked two years in a Dublin mercantile house, then “went to India in the E.I.C.’s military service in 1776; was one…

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HAMILTON, Alexander

HAMILTON, Alexander. 3.10.1762 — Liverpool 30.12.1824. British (Scottish) Pioneer of Indology. Born in Scotland (if not in India), son of William Hamilton (1722–1783), a merchant in Greenock (Inverclyde), and Jean Donald, and grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Laird of Grange in Ayrshire, brother of Major Walter Hamilton (1779–1818), who also wrote…

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