HÉROLD, André-Jules-Ferdinand. Paris 24.2.1865 — Lapras (St.Basile, Ardèche) 23.10.1940. French Poet interested in Sanskrit. Son of the lawyer and politician Ferdinand Hérold (1828–1882) and Laure Louvain-Pescheloche, grandson of the composer Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833). Studies at École de chartes, but moved to É.P.H.É. Licensié-ès-lettres. Lived in Paris. He was a “poète…
HERMANN, Eduard. Coburg 19.12.1869 — Göttingen 14.2.1950. German IE scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Ernst Hermann (1828–1894), a Rentkommissar, and Augusta Marie Conrad. Studied classical philology and IE linguistics at Jena, Freiburg and Leipzig. Ph.D. 1894 Jena, under Delbrück. Teacher in Coburg, from 1903 in Bergedorf near Hamburg. From…
HERBERICH, Gustav. 18?? — 1???. German Teacher and Former Student of Indology. A student of Jolly at Würzburg, Ph.D. there 1893. He was then Realschulassistent in Neuburg, later perhaps in Munich. The Washington Post 12.2. 1911, p. 59 tells that “Frau Paula Herberich is being tried in Nuernberg for killing…
HENZI, Samuel Gottlieb Rudolf. Bern 7.9.1794 — Dorpat (Tartu) 1./13.2.1829. Swiss Oriental Scholar and Theologian in Estonia. Professor in Dorpat. Son of merchant Rudolf Jakob Henzi (1767–1830) and Rosina Elisabeth König. Studied philosophy and theology at Bern and in 1816-17 at Tübingen (cand.theol.). Further studies in 1817-18 at Göttingen and,…
HENSELER, Eugène Éric de. Fribourg 1889 — Geneva 1960. Swiss Teacher and Former Student of Indian Religion, a Theosophist. Born in a Swiss family originating from Aarau, but living in Fribourg. Educated partly in England, also in Fribourg and Lausanne. Ph.D. 1928 Fribourg. Teacher in Geneva (1937). Married Carmen von Zeisen,…
HENRY, Victor. Colmar, Alsace 17.8.1850 — Paris 6.2.1907. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of Édouard Henry (d. 1856), teacher at Colmar collège, and Joséphine Grante, educated by his uncle Victor Henry (d. 1864), also a teacher. Studied law at Strasbourg (licencié 1869) and Dijon (dr. 1872). Planning a career…
HENDRIKSEN, Hans Frederik. Jutland 6.6.1913 — 1989. Danish Indologist. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of Kai Hendriksen (1884–1961), an official, and Gerda Raabye. Matriculated from Østre Borgerdydskole in Copenhagen in 1932. Studies of comparative linguistics and Indology at Copenhagen under Pedersen and Tuxen, also at Leipzig 1937-38 (J. Friedrich), Paris 1938-39…
HELLER, Ludwig. Travemünde 18.8.1866 — Greifswald 21.8.1945. German Indologist. Professor in Greifswald. Son of Ludwig Heller (1805–1878), a minister, historian Johannes Heller (1851–1880) was his brother. Educated at Lübeck Gymnasium in 1878-86, then military service in Erlangen in 1886-87. In 1887-93 studies of Indology (Kielhorn) and classical philology at Göttingen,…
HELD, Gerrit Jan. Kampen (Overijssel) 1.7.1906 — Jakarta 28.9.1955. Dutch Anthropologist in Indonesia. Son of Andries Held (d. 1908) and Hermina Rozenberg. After gymnasium in Kampen and military service, from 1926 studied Sanskrit, Old Javanese and Ethnology at Leiden. Ph.D. 1935 Leiden (under Josselin de Jong). In service of Nederlands…
HEIMANN, Betty. Wandsbeck bei Hamburg 29.3.1888 — Sirmione at the Lake Garda 19.5.1961. German Indologist in the U.K. and Sri Lanka. British citizen 1939. Daughter of banker Isaac Heimann (1844–1899) and Margarethe Levy (1853–1925), father died when she was 10. After school (Johanneum) in Hamburg studied classical philology and Indology…