HARRY, Joseph Edward. Harford Co., MD 1.10.1863 — New York 12.8.1949. U.S. Classical (Greek) Scholar also interested in Modern Languages and Sanskrit. Professor in Georgetown, Cincinnati and Columbia. Son of David Harry (1829–1903) and Maria Jane Warner. A quaker. Educated at Johns Hopkins (A.B. 1886, Ph.D. 1889), in 1887 further…
HARRISON, Max Hunter. Victoria, co. Knox, Illinois 24.12.1893 — Auburndale, co. Middlesex, Mass. 20.2.1986. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Jacob Hunter Harrison (1841–1917) and Ellen Wilmetta Levalley. Studied mathematics and Greek at Knox College (B.A. 1913), then at Andower Newton Theological School (B.Th. 1916) and Harvard Divinity School…
HARRISON, Hugh. Dublin 27.5.1870 — Barnstaple, Devon 17.11.1944. British (Irish) Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-colonel. Son of Michael Harrison (1823–1895) and Sophia Mary Stronge. Back in England he was in 1924-28 Lecturer in Hindi and Marathi at Caius College in Cambridge. Married 1876 Laura Elizabeth Shuttleworth (1874–1951), one son and…
HARRIS, Charles. Albion, Illinois 19.11.1859 — Cleveland 2.9.1943. U.S. Germanist, also Student of Indology. Son of George Harris (1829–1916) and Catherine Smith. In 1875-79 studies at University of Indiana (A.B. 1879) and from 1881 at Leipzig (under Windisch). Ph.D. 1884 Leipzig. Worked as teacher, 1888-93 Professor of German at Oberlin…
HARRINGTON, John Peabody. Waltham, MA 29.4.1884 — San Diego, CAL 21.10.1961. U.S. Linguist and Anthropologist. Son of Elliot Augustus Harrington (1850–1936) and Mary Lidia Peabody. Moved to California as child. Studied anthropology and classics, then also IE, at Stanford (A.B. 1905), Berkeley, Leipzig and Berlin, without completing his Ph.D. In…
HARPER, William Rainey. New Concord, Ohio 24.7.1856 — Chicago 10.1.1906. U.S. Linguist. Born in an Irish-Scottish family, son of Samuel Harper (1823–1905) and Elizabeth Rainey. A child prodigy who learned many languages, Greek, Latin, Semitic, etc. Studies at Muskingum College (graduated when 14) and Yale (Ph.D. when 18). In Sanskrit…
HARGREAVES, Harold. 29.5.1876 — 1951. British Archaeologist in India. In 1897 visited Ceylon. For a while served as headmaster of the Government High School in Amritsar. Worked in A.S.I. from at least 1909, Superintendent of Frontier Circle 1910-12, then of Northern Circle, and again of Frontier Circle. From 1924 Deputy…
HARES, Walter Pullin. Alcester, Warwickshire 12.4.1877 — 21.1.1962. British Missionary in India. Son of George Daniel Hares (1841–1913) and Harriet Emma Pullin. Educated at King’s Lynn and Durham University (B.A.). In 1906-11 missionary in charge in Narowal, 1912-13 Principal and Warden of St. John’s Divinity School in Lahore, 1913-16 again…
HARE, Edward Miles. Leicester 4.3.1893 — Oldham, Hampshire 26.10.1955. British Pāli Scholar in Sri Lanka. Son of Charles Edward Hare and Agnes Pruen. Educated at Stamford School in Lincolnshire, where F. L. Woodward was his teacher and introduced him into Pāli. Served in WW I as Lieutenant. In 1918-50 tea…
HARDY, Edmund Georg Nicolaus. Mainz 9.7.1852 — Bonn 10.10.1904. German Catholic Priest and Indologist. Son of pharmacist Edmund Hardy (1816–1878) and Ottilie Moufang (1818–1852), school in Mainz. After studies at Mainz Catholic Episcopal Seminar in 1871-75 he was ordained priest 19.1.1875. In 1875-85 chaplain of Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse in…