HOENIGSWALD, Henry Max (born Heinrich Max Franz Hönigswald). Breslau 17.4.1915 — Haverford, PA 16.6.2003. U.S. (German-born) Linguist (IE and Hindi). Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Professor Richard Hönigswald (1875–1947), a philosopher of Austro-Bohemian Jewish origin, and Gertrud Frunwald (d. 1921). Gymnasium in Breslau and Munich, matriculated 1932. Studied comparative linguistics…
HEIDRICH, Joachim. 13.7.1930 — Berlin 8.7.2004. German (East) Scholar of Modern India. Matriculated 1948. Studied Indology and Ethnology Berlin. Ph.D. 1958 Berlin (under Ruben). In 1973-81 in G.D.R. diplomatic service in New Delhi and Calcutta. In 1981-89 at Zentralinstitut für Geschichte in Berlin, then at Forschungsschwerpunkt Moderner Orient, emeritus 1995.…
HART, Gillian (Jill) R. Eastbourne, Sussex 11.8.1934 — 8.2.2004. British Indo-European Linguist. Daughter of farmer Alexander and Catherine Hart. During the war the family moved to Devon and 1945 to South Oxfordshire. After school in Reading 1947-53 one year studies at Reading University, then from 1954 at Oxford (Lady Margaret…
HARMATTA, János. Hódmezővásárhely, komitat Csongrád 2.10.1917 — Budapest 24.7.2004. Hungarian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Born in south-eastern Hungary. After gymnasium in his home town from 1935 studies of classical, IE and Iranian philology and Indology at Budapest, Ph.D. 1940 in Greek. Then in army and briefly war-prisoner. From 1947 Docent of Greek…
HARLE, James (Jim) Coffin. Santa Monica, Calif. 5.4.1920 — 27.6.2004. U.S. Art Historian in the U.K. Son of James Wyly Harle and Elfrieda Frances Baumann. Educated at St George’s School in Newport, RI, studies at Princeton (B.A. 1942). In 1942-46 in war service in U.S.N.R., Aviation Branch, retired as Lieutenant.…
HARDY, Friedhelm Ernst (Fred). Köln 4.3.1943 — Reading 4.8.2004. German Indologist and Scholar of Indian Religion in the U.K. Brought up by his mother as father had died in the end of war. Started studies of Indology at Münster (under Hacker) and Heidelberg. In 1966 came to the U.K. and…
HAGER, Berthold. Kippenheim, Baden 1915 — ?.7.2003. German Teacher and former Student of Indology. Son of Rev. Georg Hager. From 1933 studied at Tübingen, first law, soon Sanskrit. Ph.D. Tübingen 1938. Served in WW 2, then war prisoner. Resumed studies, now French and English, in 1949 graduated as teacher. Worked…
GREY, Leslie. 1916 — ????. M.D. Oxford. A psychiatrist and Professor in Denver, Colorado. M.D. He had served as Medical Attaché to U.S. Embassies in New Delhi and Kabul. One L.G. (M.D.) died in Denver in January 2004. Publications: A concordance of Buddhist birth stories. 43+268 p. Oxford 1990, 2nd…
GRESSETH, Gerald K. Portland. Oregon 7.9.1918 — Salt Lake City 3.12.2003. U.S. IE and Classical Scholar. Son of Carl Otto Gresseth and Bernice Barnett. B.A. 1941 Reed College, then served in the navy. Ph.D. Berkeley. Taught at Stanford, then 38 years at University of Utah, where also teaching Sanskrit (in…
GLADSTONE, M. S. 1??? — 19??. Indologist? Ph.D. 1928 Cambridge. Publications: Diss. Vishṇu in the Rigveda and after until the epic period.Manuscript 1928. Sources: There are too famous namesakes to show him in Google.