KÉGL, Sándor (Alexander von K.). Szúnyog near Pest 1.12.1862 — Áporka near Pest 29.12.1920. Hungarian Nobleman and Indo-Iranian Scholar. Born in a wealthy Catholic landowner family (knighted 1762), son of the elder Sándor Kégl (1825–1905) and Terézia Jeszensky. Educated in Budapest. Inspired by Vámbéry’s travels he studied of several Oriental…
KEAY, Frank Ernest. Richmond-on-Thames, Surrey (London) 1879 — Knutsford, Cheshire 28.12.1974. Rev. British Anglican Missionary in India. Son of John Oliver Keay, a grocer, alderman and JP, and Naomi Barrat. Studies in London (B.A. 1900). Started in civil service, but in 1906 joined the Church Missionary Society. Now theological education…
KEANE, Augustus Henry. Cork ?.6.1833 — London 3.2.1912. Irish Journalist and Ethnological Writer. Educated in Cork, Dublin and Jersey. Graduated from Roman Catholic College, Dublin, then studied in Rome for priesthood, but soon rejected religious career. From 1862 editor of the Glasgow Free Press. For a while studied in Germany,…
KATENINA, Tat’jana Evgen’evna. Leningrad 20.6.1926 — 17.4.1987. Russian Indologist (Marathi & Hindi). Daughter of a civil servant, Evgenij Aleksandrovič Katenin, and his wife Anna Efimovna. Graduated 1949 from Oriental Faculty, Leningrad University. Kand. filol. nauk 1956. From 1948 until death taught at Leningrad University, Docent 1961. Married Georgij Vasil’evič Edunov.…
HUNTER, William. Montrose, Angus 1755 — Java 15.12.1812. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of Thomas Hunter and May Charteris. Educated at Marischal College and Aberdeen University (M.A. 1777). M.D. 1808. Joined the E.I.C.’S medical service in 1781. As naval surgeon 1782 he was driven to Burma by a storm.…
HOFFMANN, Karl. Hof am Regen, Oberpfalz (Bavaria) 26.2.1915 — Erlangen 21.5.1996. German Indo-Iranian and IE Linguist. Professor in Erlangen. Son of a railway officer. After school in Munich he studied from 1934 at Munich under Oertel, Sommer and Wüst. Ph.D. 1941 Munich (under Wüst). He had to join the army…
HOEY, William. 1849 — 1919. British (Irish?) Civil Servant in India, interested in History, Archaeology and Numismatics. Son of George William Hoey and Eliza Good. Studies at Queen’s College, Belfast. M.A. Magistrate in Lucknow (1880). Commissioner in Gorakhpur (1892/98). From c. 1910 Reader in Hindustani and Indian History at Trinity…
HOERNLE, Augustus Frederick Rudolf. Sikandra near Agra 19.10.1841 — Oxford 12.11.1918. British (of German background) Teacher and Indologist in India. Son of the missionary Christian Theophilus Hoernle (1804–1882, translated the Gospels into Urdū) and Luise Mögling, born as British citizen. In 1848 he was sent to his grandparents in Germany…
HILL, William Douglas Penneck. Kensington, London 1884 — Poole, Dorset 9.4.1962. British Indologist. Son of Arthur James Hill and Fanny Catheside Hingston. M.A. Worked as Assistant Master at Eton and as Principal of Jay Narayan’s High School Benares. Back in the U.K. Scholar of King’s College, Cambridge. His much praised…
HERTEL, Johannes. Zwickau 13.3.1872 — Leipzig 27.10.1955. German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. Son of Franz Hertel and his wife Adolfine. From 1891 Studies at Leipzig, of classics, German, English, French, and Indology (under Windisch). Ph.D. 1897 Leipzig. Taught modern languages as Oberlehrer at Realgymnasium in Zwickau and Döbeln. From 1919…