HOFFMANN, Helmut. Flensburg 24.8.1912 — Holzkirchen (Oberbayern) 8.10.1992. German Indologist and Tibetologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Munich and Bloomington. Son of Erich Hoffmann, a teacher. Gymnasium in Flensburg. From 1931-32 studies of Sanskrit and classics ar Freiburg i.Br., soon Indology, Iranian and Central Asian languages at Berlin, student of…
HOFFMANN, Andreas Gottlieb. Welbsleben, Grafschaft Mansfeld (Sachsen-Anhalt) 13.4.1796 — Jena 16.3.1864. German Orientalist and Theologian (a specialist of Syriac) also interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Jena. Son of a miller, educated in Egeln and at Domgymnasium in Magdeburg. Without matriculation he voluntarily joined light infantry against the French in 1813.…
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…
HOEFER, Karl Gustav Albert. Greifswald 2.10.1812 — Greifswald 9.1.1883. German Indologist. Professor in Greifswald. Son of Carl Andreas Hoefer (1781–1853), a judge, and Christiane Sophie Waldeck (d. 1834). Studied from 1832 classical, Oriental and German philology at Greifswald, Berlin, Göttingen and Königsberg, especially under Kosegarten, Ewald, J. Grimm, Lachmann and…
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…
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…
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.