HERAS, Henry (born Enrique/Enric Heras i Sicars). Canet d’Adri near Girona, Catalonia (Catalonian Viquipedia Barcelona) 11.9.1888 — Bombay 14.12.1955. S. J. Spanish Historian in India. Professor in Bombay. Son of Maria Sicars i Couret and Ponç (Pontio) Heras i Jorda, of a very old and well-to-do Catalonian family. Studies of…
HENSELER, Eugène Éric de. Fribourg 1889 — Geneva 1960. Swiss Teacher and Former Student of Indian Religion, a Theosophist. Born in a Swiss family originating from Aarau, but living in Fribourg. Educated partly in England, also in Fribourg and Lausanne. Ph.D. 1928 Fribourg. Teacher in Geneva (1937). Married Carmen von Zeisen,…
HENRY, Victor. Colmar, Alsace 17.8.1850 — Paris 6.2.1907. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of Édouard Henry (d. 1856), teacher at Colmar collège, and Joséphine Grante, educated by his uncle Victor Henry (d. 1864), also a teacher. Studied law at Strasbourg (licencié 1869) and Dijon (dr. 1872). Planning a career…
HENNING, Walter Bruno. Raging, Ostpreussen (now Neman in Russia) 26.8.1908 — Berkeley, Calif. 8.1.1967. German Iranian Scholar in the U.K. and U.S.A., great specialist of Middle Iranian Languages. Professor in London and Berkeley. Son of the local land registry director. Grew up in Köslin, Pomerania (now Koszalin in Poland), as…
HENDRIKSEN, Hans Frederik. Jutland 6.6.1913 — 1989. Danish Indologist. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of Kai Hendriksen (1884–1961), an official, and Gerda Raabye. Matriculated from Østre Borgerdydskole in Copenhagen in 1932. Studies of comparative linguistics and Indology at Copenhagen under Pedersen and Tuxen, also at Leipzig 1937-38 (J. Friedrich), Paris 1938-39…
HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein. 21.4.1847 — London 2.2.1917. British Physician in India. Colonel. Educated privately and at St.Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. Joined Indian Medical service in 1869 and worked 27 years under Foreign Department in India, as Residency Surgeon in Jaipur States. Colonel 1894. From 1898 Inspector General of Civil Hospitals…
HENDERSON, Vincent Carlile. 1873 — Shanghai 9.1.1910. British (Irish) Official in China. For a while in London and Vancouver. Joined the Imperial Chinese Customs service in 1899, then soon (1900) in Tibet Frontier Service. Publications: Tibetan Manual. Rev. by E. Amundsen. 247 p. Calcutta 1903. Sources: The London Gazette 25.2.1913,…
HELLER, Ludwig. Travemünde 18.8.1866 — Greifswald 21.8.1945. German Indologist. Professor in Greifswald. Son of Ludwig Heller (1805–1878), a minister, historian Johannes Heller (1851–1880) was his brother. Educated at Lübeck Gymnasium in 1878-86, then military service in Erlangen in 1886-87. In 1887-93 studies of Indology (Kielhorn) and classical philology at Göttingen,…
HELD, Gerrit Jan. Kampen (Overijssel) 1.7.1906 — Jakarta 28.9.1955. Dutch Anthropologist in Indonesia. Son of Andries Held (d. 1908) and Hermina Rozenberg. After gymnasium in Kampen and military service, from 1926 studied Sanskrit, Old Javanese and Ethnology at Leiden. Ph.D. 1935 Leiden (under Josselin de Jong). In service of Nederlands…
HEINE-GELDERN, Robert (Freiherr von). Grub, Niederösterreich 16.7.1885 — Vienna 25.5.1968. Austrian Anthropologist. Professor in Vienna. Born in a rich Jewish family, grand-nephew of poet Heinrich Heine. Educated in Vienna. From 1903 studied philosophy and art history at Munich and then at Vienna. In 1910 travelled in India and Burma, now…