HEDBERG, Samuel Enoch (Enok). Bellö near Jönköping 19.9.1871 — Lund 17.4.1945 (1947?). Rev. Swedish Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Fredrik Olofsson (1849–1957) and Anna Lena Andersdotter, a modest tenant family. Educated at mission school in Johannelund. Went in 1905 to Central India, where his elder sister Hanna already worked…
HEAD, Barclay Vincent. Ipswich, Suffolk 2.1.1844 — London 12.6.1914. British Numismatist. Son of John Head and Elizabeth Bailey, a quaker family. From 1864 working in British Museum, from 1893 as Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals. Retired in 1906. Honorary degrees of Durham 1887 and Oxford 1905. Married…
HAYDEN, Henry Hubert. Londonderry 25.7.1869 — Finsteraarhorn, Switzerland 12.8.1923 (official date 28.8. when his body was found). Sir. British Geologist in India. Educated at Hilton College in South Africa. Studies of geology at Trinity College in Dublin (B.A.). In 1895 joined the Geological Survey of India. Conducted studies in the Himalayas,…
HARTSHORNE, Bertram Fulke. Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire 1844 — Brentford, Middlesex ?.3.1922. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802–1865) and Frances Margaretta Kerrich. Educated at Charterhouse School, graduated B.A. from Pembroke College, Oxford. Arrived in Ceylon in 1869. Returned 1874 and settled in Oxford and became…
HARTMANN, Hans Adolf Dietrich. Rüstringen bei Wilhelmshaven 18.11.1909 — 11.12.2000. German Linguist and Celtologist. Son of a policeman, Gustav Hartmann, and Johanna Theiken, educated in Jever. From 1928 studies of classics, Indology and IE at Marburg, 1930 moved to Berlin. Ph.D. 1933 Berlin (diss. on Russian). In 1937-39 studied Irish…
HARRIS, William Henry. Wann, Oklahoma 28.6.1922 — Carbondale, Illinois 28.10.1966. U.S. Scholar of Religion and Philosophy. Son of Elmer Lawley Harris (1878–1954) and Mary Irene Phelps. Studies at Bethany Nazarene College (B.A.), then Catholic theology and philosophy at Boston University (B.Theol., Ph.D.). In 1948-56 taught at University of Arkansas. In…
HARRIS, Mary Belle. Factoryville, PA 19.8.1874 — Lewisburg, PA 22.2.1957. U.S. Administrator and former Student of Sanskrit. Daughter of John Howard Harris (1847–1925), a Baptist minister (then long tome President of Bucknell University), and Mary Elizabeth H. Mace, lost her mother when six. Educated at Keystone Academy, then studies at…
HALL, E. H. 18?? — 19??. British Library Worker. Grierson’s student and his Assistant in the L.S.I. from c. 1903 in London. Later he also assisted him with the Kāśmīrī dictionary. He worked in India Office Library (in 1935/40 as clerk under H. N. Randle). Publications: Prepared an unpublished inventory…
HALLAM, Ebenezer Charles Bethlehem. Worcester 1.1.1833 — Lakemont, Yates County, NY 9.1.1915. British (Canadian) Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Hallam (1801–1888) and Ann Chamberlin. Educated at King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham, and Kormal’ School, Toronto. Ordained Baptist Priest 1855. From 1857 worked in Orissa, in 1863-67 in America, then…
HÁJEK, Lubor. Nové Strašecí, Rakovnik region 5.5.1921 — Prague 2.3.2000. Czech Art Historian. Studies of Indology at Prague in 1945-49 (Lesný and Pertold). Ph.D. 1949 Prague (under Pertold). From 1952 Director of Oriental Collections at Czech National Gallery, retired in 1986. Mainly concentrated on East Asian art. Publications: Diss. Poměr…