HATZIDAKIS, Georgios Nikolaou (Γεώργιος Νικολάου Χατζιδάκις). Myrthios, Hagios Basileios dt., Crete (then of Osman Empire) 11./23.11.1848 — Athens 26.6.1941. Greek Linguist, Founder of Modern Greek Linguistics. Professor in Athens. Educated at village school. Like his father and grandfather, acted against Turkish rule and came in 1868 to Athens as refugee.…
HATFIELD, James Taft. Brooklyn, NY 15.6.1862 — Cook county, Illinois 3.10.1945. U.S. Linguist (Germanic and IE) and Indologist. Professor in Evanstown. Son of a Methodist minister, Robert Miller Hatfield (1819–1891) and Elizabeth Ann Taft. Educated in Philadelphia. Graduated A.B. 1883 Northwestern University, A.M. 1886 ibid. (and 1937 Litt.D.). In 1883-84…
HAŞDEU, Bogdan Petriceicu (himself wrote Hasdeu, born as Tadeu Hâjdău). Cristineştii, Hotinului, Bessarabia (now Kerstentsi in Ukraina) 26.2.1838 — Cîmpína 25.8.1907. Romanian Historian, Linguist and Author interested in Sanskrit. Born in Russian empire of a Moldovan boyar family, son of the luminary Alexandru Hâjdeu (1811–1872). His father had read Bopp’s…
HARTMANN, Peter. Berlin-Schöneberg 16.4.1923 — Münster 9.3.1984. German Linguist. Professor in Münster and Konstanz. Son of Hubert Hartmann, an officer, and grandson of —> Felix Hartmann. Matriculated 1942 from Berlin and went to army. Wounded in Stalingrad, later became British war prisoner. From 1946 studied comparative linguistics and Japanese at…
HARTING, Peter (Pieter Nicolaus Ubbo). Batavia (Jakarta) 15.1.1892 — Amsterdam 11.8.1970. Dutch Indologist and Linguist (English). After Gymnasium in Amersfoort studied at Utrecht (1918 M.A. in Dutch), in Indology student of Caland. Ph.D. 1922 Utrecht. In 1920-23 Reader in Dutch at University of London, also at Bedford College for Women,…
HARRY, Joseph Edward. Harford Co., MD 1.10.1863 — New York 12.8.1949. U.S. Classical (Greek) Scholar also interested in Modern Languages and Sanskrit. Professor in Georgetown, Cincinnati and Columbia. Son of David Harry (1829–1903) and Maria Jane Warner. A quaker. Educated at Johns Hopkins (A.B. 1886, Ph.D. 1889), in 1887 further…
HARRISON, Max Hunter. Victoria, co. Knox, Illinois 24.12.1893 — Auburndale, co. Middlesex, Mass. 20.2.1986. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Jacob Hunter Harrison (1841–1917) and Ellen Wilmetta Levalley. Studied mathematics and Greek at Knox College (B.A. 1913), then at Andower Newton Theological School (B.Th. 1916) and Harvard Divinity School…
HARRIS, Charles. Albion, Illinois 19.11.1859 — Cleveland 2.9.1943. U.S. Germanist, also Student of Indology. Son of George Harris (1829–1916) and Catherine Smith. In 1875-79 studies at University of Indiana (A.B. 1879) and from 1881 at Leipzig (under Windisch). Ph.D. 1884 Leipzig. Worked as teacher, 1888-93 Professor of German at Oberlin…
HARPER, William Rainey. New Concord, Ohio 24.7.1856 — Chicago 10.1.1906. U.S. Linguist. Born in an Irish-Scottish family, son of Samuel Harper (1823–1905) and Elizabeth Rainey. A child prodigy who learned many languages, Greek, Latin, Semitic, etc. Studies at Muskingum College (graduated when 14) and Yale (Ph.D. when 18). In Sanskrit…
HARLEZ DE DEULIN, Charles-Joseph, chevalier de. Huy/Liège 21.8.1832 — Louvain (Leuven) 14.7.1899. Belgian Oriental, especially Iranian scholar. Professor in Louvain. Son of Conrad-Lambert de Harlez (1784–1858) and Marie-Antoinette de Reul de Bonneville (1798–1855), of local nobility of Liège. Concluded law studies at Liège in 1858. Also attended a seminary and…