HEYMANN, Wilhelm. Bremen 12.7.1847 — Bremen 29.3.1911. German Linguist (IE and English). Teacher in Bremen. Son of a cigar manufacturer. Studied first theology, soon languages at Göttingen. Ph.D. 1873 Göttingen. According to D.L.K. he was Gymnasium teacher in Bremen in 1890 and 1900, in 1906 he is mentioned without a…
HEYDE, August Wilhelm (born A. W. Heide). Herrnhut 1825 — Herrnhut 27.8.1907. Rev. German Missionary. Spent 50 years in Ladakh as Moravian Missionary, in 1853-1898 (?). Originally a plumber, he was sent to East to begin mission in Mongolia, together with Eduars Pagell. In 1855 they arrived at Leh, but…
HEWITT, James Francis Katharinus. Desertlyn, co. Londonderry 21.6.1835 — Wheatley, Oxfordshire 14.3.1908. British Civil Servant in India, a Scholar of Indian Ethnology and Prehistory. Born in Ireland, son of Rev. John Pratt Hewitt (1796–1880) and Elizabeth Gervais. Educated in Westminster, studies at Oxford (Christ Church). Joined I.S.C., served in Krishnagarh.…
HEVESY, Vilmos (Wilhelm von Hevesy, orig. W. Bischitz). 1877 — 1945. Hungarian Electric Engineer interested in Linguistics. Son of Ludwig (Lajos) David Bischitz (1851–1920), 1895 title of nobility as Bisicz de Heves, from 1906 Hevesy de Heves, and Eugenie (Jenny) Schossberger de Tornya, brother of the Nobel prize chemist György/Georg…
HESSLER, Franz. Krombach bei Aschaffenburg 15.10.1799 (Wikipedia: 13.3.1798) — Munich 17.6.1890 . German Physician and Indologist in Bavaria. Son of a farmer, educated in Aschaffenburg. Began his philological studies at Würzburg gymnasium, then 1822-27 studies of medicine and philology at Heidelberg, Erlangen and Würzburg. Ph.D. (dr. phil.) 1827 Würzburg. From…
HERZFELD, Ernst Emil. Celle, Lower Saxony 23.7.1879 — Basel 21.1.1948. German Archaeologist, later in the U.S.A. Professor in Berlin and Princeton. Son of Joseph Herzfeld (1836–1916), Prussian military doctor, and Margarethe Rosenthal. After gymnasium in Verden and Berlin and 1897-98 one year of military service he studied at Technische Hochschule…
HERVÉ, Camille. 18?? — Paris 30.8.1878. French. As “indianiste à Paris” participated in the first Conference of Orientalists in 1873. From 1867 member of Société de linguistique. Publications: ??. Sources: Death noted in BSL 5, 1885.
HERTZ, Henry Felix. 14.5.1863 — Burma 6.11.1932. British Civil Servant in Burma. Son of Viggo Hertz (1827–1886) and Annie Fairweather (d. 1876), grandson of Bishop Jens Michael Hertz (1766–1825) of Ribe, Denmark. Apparently born in Burma, where his father had come as a young man. “Educated at St. Xavier’s College…
HERTEL, Johannes. Zwickau 13.3.1872 — Leipzig 27.10.1955. German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. Son of Franz Hertel and his wife Adolfine. From 1891 Studies at Leipzig, of classics, German, English, French, and Indology (under Windisch). Ph.D. 1897 Leipzig. Taught modern languages as Oberlehrer at Realgymnasium in Zwickau and Döbeln. From 1919…
HERRMANN, Albert Ludwig. Hannover 20.1.1886 — Pilsen (Plzeň in Czech) 19.4.1945. German Scholar of Historical Geography. Son of school director Konrad Herrmann (1844–1910) and Bertha Engelnord. After school in Lingen/Ems studied from 1904 at Berlin and Göttingen. Ph.D. Göttingen 1910 (under H. Wagner). Worked as school-teacher until 1933. From 1923…