HODGSON, Brian Houghton. Lower Beech near Macclesfield, Cheshire 1.2.1800 (or 1801?) — London 23.5.1894. British Civil Servant, Diplomat and Indologist in India and Nepal (1818-44 & 1845-58), also worked on Anthropology and Natural History. Son of Brian Hodgson (1766–1858), a banker, and his wife Catherine. Educated at Macclesfield and Dr.…
HOCART, Arthur Maurice. Etterbeek near Brussels, Belgium 26.4.1883 — Cairo 9.3.1939. British scholar of Sri Lankan Archaeology and Ethnology. Son of James Hocart, a Protestan missionary working in Belgium, and Mary Mathieson Doulton (1850–1890). Born in Belgium as British citizen, educated in Brussels and Guernsey (Elizabeth College), where the family…
HJELT, Frans Wilhelm Gustaf. Turku 22.5.1819 — Turku 26.9.1889. Finnish Priest and Classical Scholar. Son of the printing manager and publisher Christian Ludvig Hjelt (1786-1849) and Hedvig Lovisa Chytraeus. He matriculated from Turku Gymnasium in 1836, and studied at Helsinki University (M.A. 1840). Then teacher at his old school, in…
HJELMSLEV, Louis Trolle. Copenhagen 3.10.1899 — Copenhagen 30.5.1965. Danish Linguist (Germanist and General Linguist). Son of the mathematician Johannes Hjelmslev (1873–1950) and Agnes Elisabeth Bohse. From 1917 studies at Copenhagen (Pedersen), M.A. 1923. Then further studies in Prague 1923-24, Paris 1926-27 (Meillet and Vendryes) and Leipzig 1929. Ph.D. 1932. PD…
HITZ, Sophie Luise. Munich 13.1.1835 — Munich 1.5.1906. German Schoolteacher and Poet interested in Sanskrit Literature. Daughter of Hans Conrad Hitz (1798–1866), a painter, and Luise Hahnhart, family originally from Switzerland. Obtained the modest education then offered to women and started her literary career in 1882. Active for the rights of…
HISLOP, Stephen. Duns, Berwickshire 8.9.1817 — Bori River, Takalghat, Maharashtra 4.9.1863. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Stephen Hislop (1772–1837), a mason and builder, and Margaret Thomson. “Educated at Duns, Edinburgh University, Glasgow, and in divinity under Chalmers at Edinburgh. Joined the Free Church of Scotland 1843, went…
HIRZEL, Bernhard. Enge near Zürich 12.8.1807 — Paris 6.6.1847. Swiss Indologist, Priest and Politician. Priest and Docent in Zürich. Son of Johannes Hirzel (1776–1842), a wealthy industrialist, and Margaretha Bürkli. Studied theology at Carolinum in Zürich, where he learnt well Hebrew and Arabic. In 1831 further studies at Berlin, where…
HIRT, Herman(n) Alfred. Magdeburg 19.12.1865 — Giessen 12/20.9.1936. German IE scholar. Professor in Giessen. Son of the master carpenter Karl Heinrich Hirt (1832–1891) and Bertha Bollmann, educated in Magdeburg. Studies of Sanskrit and IE linguistics at Leipzig and Freiburg, under Brugmann, Leskien, Zarncke, Sievers and Windisch. Ph.D. 1889. Travelled in…
HIRSZBANT (Hirschband), B. Abraham. 18?? — 19??. Hungarian (?) Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1887 Vienna. Publications: Diss. 1887 publ. as Über Kshemendra’s Darpadalana. 71 p. St.P. 1892 (analysis and specimens of the text). Sources: Nothing found.
HINZ, Walther. Stuttgart 19.11.1906 — Göttingen 12.4.1992. German Oriental and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of a merchant, lost early his parents. In 1926-30 studied at Leipzig, Munich and Paris, first journalism, but soon switched to East European history, Slavistics, Turkish and Persian (under Schaeder and Massé). Ph.D. 1930…