KAHLO, Gerhard

KAHLO, Gerhard. Magdeburg 29.12.1893 — Cottbus 18.7.1974. German (East) Linguist, Anthropologist and Author. Son of Martin Kahlo, a teacher, and Clara Möhring. After school in Magdeburg studies of Classics, Germanistics, history and philosophy at Göttingen and Jena. Ph.D. 1919 Jena, after war service. After studies worked as gymnasium teacher, had…

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KAEGI, Adolf

KAEGI, Adolf (orig. Kägi). Holderbaum bei Bauma, Canton Zürich 30.9.1849 — Rüschlikon, Canton Zürich 14.2.1923. Swiss Indologist, IE and Classical Scholar. Professor in Zürich. Son of the elementary school teacher Johann Jakob Kaegi and Elisabetha Kündig. After gymnasium in Zürich, in 1868-71 studied at Zürich classical philology (under K. Bursian,…

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HUTTON, John Henry

HUTTON, John Henry. West Heslerton, Malton, Yorkshire 27.6.1885 — New Radnor, Radnorshire 23.5.1968. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of the elder J. H. H., a clergyman, and Clarissa Marshall Barwick (1847–1900), educated at Chigwell School in Essex. Studies at Worcester College, Oxford. In 1909 joined I.C.S. and…

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HUTH, Georg

HUTH, Georg. Krotoschin, Posen (now Krotoszyn in Poland) 25.2.1867 — Berlin 1.6.1906. German Indologist and Tibetologist. Born in a Jewish family in the then Prussian part of Poland, where his father Aron Huth (d. 1893) was Rector of a Jewish school, mother Keile Pincus (thus Vogel & ancestry.com, Knüppel has…

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HUTCHISON, John

HUTCHISON, John. Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1848 — Chamba 24.7.1936 (when 88). British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Peter H. and Anne Mcghie. Studied medicine in Edinburgh. Medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in the Punjab. Graduated in 1871 and left for India, where he spent the rest of his…

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HUNTER, William Wilson

HUNTER, William Wilson. Glasgow 15.7.1840 — Oaken Holt near Oxford 7.2.1900. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant, Historian, Statistician, Ethnologist and Linguist in India. Son of Andrew Galloway Hunter, a manufacturer, and Isabella Wilson. Educated at Glasgow Academy and University (B.A. 1860). Further studies in Paris and Bonn (i.al. some Sanskrit).…

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HUNTER, William

HUNTER, William. Montrose, Angus 1755 — Java 15.12.1812. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of Thomas Hunter and May Charteris. Educated at Marischal College and Aberdeen University (M.A. 1777). M.D. 1808. Joined the E.I.C.’S medical service in 1781. As naval surgeon 1782 he was driven to Burma by a storm.…

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HUNTER, Robert

HUNTER, Robert. Newburgh, Fife 3.9.1823 — Loughton, Essex 25.2.1897. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India, Historian, Lexicographer and Naturalist. Son of John Mackenzie Hunter (1795–1878), an excise officer, and Agnes Strickland, educated in Aberdeen. Studies at Aberdeen University, classics and natural science, then theology at Edinburgh. As a tutor in…

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HUNT, Mabel

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)…

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HUNFALVY, Pál

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…

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