HOPKINS, Edward Washburn. Northampton, MA 8.9.1857 — Madison, CT 16.7.1932. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New Haven. Born in an old New English priestly and scholarly family, son of physician Lewis Spring Hopkins and Francis Jane Washburn. After Bridgewater academy studies of classical philology at Columbia University’s College, B.A. 1878, with…
HOOYKAAS, Christiaan. Amersfoort 26.12.1902 — ’s-Gravenhage 13.8.1979. Dutch Sanskrit and Indonesian Scholar. Son of a vicar, Isaäc Hooykaas (1866–1944) and Eva Maria Faber. From 1921 studies of Sanskrit (Vogel), Arabic and Indonesian at Leiden, Ph.D. there 1929 in Javanese. In 1929-39 high school teacher in Java, mainly in Yogyakarta, in…
HOOGT, Jacobus Marinus van der. Amsterdam 1874? — Arnhem 1941. Dutch Teacher and former Student of Indology. Ph.D. c. 1929 Amsterdam (under Faddegon). Died as retired teacher in Arnhem. Publications: Diss. The Vedic Chant Studied in its Textual and Melodic form. 15+123 p. Wageningen 1929. Sources: Almost nothing found except…
HOOLE, Elijah. Manchester 1798 — London 17.6.1872. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Holland Hoole, a shoemaker, educated at Manchester. In 1813 left school to help his father’s business, but turned to religion and studied privately for Wesleyan ministry. In 1820 he went to India as a Wesleyan missionary,…
HOOKER, Joseph Dalton. Halesworth, Suffolk 30.6.1817 — Sunningdale, Berkshire 10.12.1911. Sir. British Physician and Botanist in India. Son of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), also a botanist, and Maria Sarah Turner. Educated at High School and University of Glasgow, medical degree (M.D.) 1839. He joined Royal Navy Medical Department and…
HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin. Kronstadt (now Braşov) 10.3.1795 — Kronstadt (Braşov) 18.12.1869. Transylvanian Traveller and Self-Made Physician in India. Born in a Saxonian Jewish family in Transylvania, attended the local Lyceum. Then chemist’s apprentice in Kronstadt and Bistritza and became a pharmacist. In 1815 he wandered through Bukovina, Moldova and Valachia…
HOMJAKOV, Aleksej Stepanovič. Moscow 13./1.5.1804 — Moscow (or Rjazan?) 5.10./23.9.1860. Russian Slavophil author interested in Sanskrit. Son of Stepan Aleksandrovič Homjakov and Mar’ja Kireevskaja. Studied mathematics at Moscow, then concentrated on literary work. Published rather little in his lifetime. In his writings he gave to the Slavophil ideology its philosophical…
HOME, Robert. Kingston upon Hull 6.8.1752 — Kanpur 1834. British Painter in India. Son of Robert Boyne Home, an army surgeon, and Mary Hutchinson. Parents planned medical career for him, but he run to sea when 12 and returned home, now in London, only three years later. Now began art…
HOLWELL, John Zephaniah. Dublin 17.9.1711 — Pinner near London 5.11.1798. British Physician in India. Son of Zephaniah Holwell (d. 1729), a timber merchant, and Sarah Bott. Educated at Richmond and as a banker’s apprentice at Iselmond near Rotterdam, but disliked it and fled back to Ireland. Studied surgery at Guy’s…
HOLTZMANN, Adolf (der jüngere). Karlsruhe 20.12.1838 — Freiburg i. B. 17.2.1914. German Indologist. Professor in Freiburg i. Br. Nephew of —> Adolf Holtzmann d.ä. (1810–1870). Son of Karl Julius Holtzmann (1804–1877), a minister and Theologian, and Adelheid Sprenger. Studies at Heidelberg under his uncle and at Erlangen under Spiegel. Ph.D.…