HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth. Galesburg, Illinois 16.9.1876 — New Haven 17.10.1947. U.S. Geographer and Central Asian Explorer. Graduated from Beloit College 1897. M.A. 1902 Harvard. Ph.D. 1909 Yale. He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey (1897-1901), then accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905-1906) expeditions to Central Asia, in 1909 led an expedition…
HÜBSCHMANNOVÁ, Milena. Prague 10.6.1933 — Kameeldrift, South Africa 8.9.2005. Czech Indologist and Romani scholar. After school in Prague studied from 1951 Bengali and Hindi-Urdu at Prague. In 1953 met some Romanis and as going to India was not generally allowed in the communist country turned to Romani studies. Graduated 1956…
HILLER, Hiram Milliken, Jr. near Kahoka, Clark county, Missouri 8.3.1867 — Bellefonte, PA 8.8.1921. U.S. Physician, Explorer, and Ethnographer. Son of Colonel Hiram Milliken Hiller, Sr. (1834–1895) and Sarah Fulton Bell. Graduated B.S. 1887 from Parsons College, Iowa. Studied at the medical school of University of Pennsylvania (graduated 1891), met…
HEISSIG, Walter (Walther). Vienna 5.12.1913 — Rheinböllen 5.9.2005. Austrian Mongolian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Bonn. Studied Mongolian in the 1930s ar Vienna and Berlin. Joined SA 1932, 1934 switched to SS. From 1940 in Peking, also visited Inner Mongolia. Ph.D. 1941 Vienna. He remained the war years until 1946 in…
HAURI, Christoph-Ernst. Binningen near Basel 17.10.1929 — 18.6.2005. Swiss Linguist. Son of a priest, gymnasium in Basel. Studies at Basel, Ph.D. 1960 there. From 1960 chargé de cours at Genève and Lausanne, in 1962-64 taught German at University of Texas in Houston, back in Switzerland from 1965 eo. Professor in…
HARTMANN, Gerda. Kiel 1908 — ????. Miss. German Student of Indology. Studies at Kiel, Ph.D. 1932. Around 1938 migrated to the U.S.A. and worked in the Library of Congress (1938/40). Publications: Diss. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Göttin Lakṣmī. 42 p. Wertheim a.M. 1933. – “Symbols of the nidānas in Tibetan…
HALLOCK, Richard Treadwell. Passaic, NJ 5.4.1906 — Chicago 20.11.1980. U.S. Assyriologist and Specialist of Elamite. Studied at University of Toronto (B.A. 1929), then Assyriology at Chicago (M.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1934). From 193257 Research Assistant in Chicago Assyrian Dictionary project. War service in military intelligence in Washington, DC, remained there until…
HALE, William Henry. Albany, NY 20.8.1840 — Brooklyn, NY 3.5.1919. U.S. Lawyer. Son of Silvester Hale (1804–1881) and Nancy Arzelia Eames. Studies at Yale (B.A. 1860) and S.U.N.Y. Albany (LL.B. 1861). Ph.D. 1863 Yale. Lawyer, and Superintendent of Public Baths in Brooklyn, N.Y. Married 1892 Louisa Gertrude Washington. Publications: Diss. Comparison of the evolution of…
HÄRTEL, Herbert. Hoyerswerda 7.5.1921 — Berlin 23.11.2005. German Indologist, Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian. Studies at Halle and Göttingen (under Waldschmidt). Ph.D. Göttingen 1953. In 1953-62 Curator in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin. From 1963 Direktor of Museum für indische Kunst in Berlin (which was much his own creation), also…
GUTHRIE, Kenneth Sylvan Launfal. Dundee 22.7.1871 — 1940. British (Scottish) Philosopher and Historian of Philosophy in the U.S.A. Son of William Eugene Guthrie and Frances Silva D’Arusmont (1832–1903). The family was travelling, he was educated in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Scotland and U.S.A. Studied in the U.S.A., at University of the South…