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 H., a Protestan missionary in Belgium, and Mary Mathieson Doulton (1850–1890), educated in Brussels and Guernsey, where the family originated. Graduated 1906 from Oxford (Exeter College) in classics,…
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 H. (1786-1849) and Hedvig Lovisa Chytraeus. He matriculated from Turku Gymnasium in 1836, and studied at Helsinki University (M.A. 1840). Teacher at his old school, in 1842-43…
HITZ, Sophie Luise. Munich 13.1.1835 — Munich 1.5.1906. German Schoolteacher and Poet interested in Sanskrit Literature. Daughter of Hans Conrad Hitz, 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 women.…
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 H., 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 Bopp…
HIRT, Herman(n) Alfred. Magdeburg 19.12.1865 — Giessen 12/20.9.1936. German IE scholar. Professor in Giessen. Son of the master carpenter Heinrich Hirt 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 Lithuania and…
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.
HINLOOPEN LABBERTON, Dirk van. Doesburg, Gelderland 24.9.1874 — Ojai, Calif. 3.9.1961. Dutch Theosophist interested in Sanskrit, lived a long time in Indonesia. Son of the bookseller Richard van H.L. and Regina Henke van Assen. Matriculated 1893 from Arnhem, he went in 1894 to Indonesia and worked as employee in sugar…
HILLEBRANDT, Alfred. Großnädlitz bei Breslau (now Nadolice Wielkie in Poland) 15.3.1853 — Deutsch-Lissa bei Breslau (now Wrocław-Leśnica) 18.10.1927. German Indologist. Professor at Breslau. Son of Franz H., a Lutheran minister, and Philippine Levi. After school in Großnädlitz and Breslau studies of Indology at Breslau (under Stenzler) and Munich (Haug). With…
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…
HILKA, Alfons. Walzen, Oberschlesien (Walce in Poland) 30.7.1877 — Göttingen 21.6.1939. German Indologist and Scholar of Romance Languages. Professor in Göttingen. Son of the Catholic master tailor Johannes H. and Franziska Kozlik. After gymnasium in Gross-Strelitz studies of Romance philology and Sanskrit at Breslau, Berlin and Poitiers, student of A.…