KARAMZIN, Nikolaj Mihajlovič. Znamenskoe estate, Mihailovka, Simbirsk govt. 12.12.(1.12.)1766 — St.Petersburg 2.6.(22.5.)1826. Russian Literate and Historian. Son of a retired officer, Mihail Egorovič Karamzin (1724–1783), and Ekaterina Petrovna Pazuhina (d. 1769), a noble family, but of modest means. Educated at home unti 14 and then in Moscow. Briefly in army…
HUTCHISON, John. Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1848 — Chamba 24.7.1936 (when 88). British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Peter H. and Anne Mcghie. Studied medicine in Edinburgh. Medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in the Punjab. Graduated in 1871 and left for India, where he spent the rest of his…
HUNTER, William Wilson. Glasgow 15.7.1840 — Oaken Holt near Oxford 7.2.1900. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant, Historian, Statistician, Ethnologist and Linguist in India. Son of Andrew Galloway Hunter, a manufacturer, and Isabella Wilson. Educated at Glasgow Academy and University (B.A. 1860). Further studies in Paris and Bonn (i.al. some Sanskrit).…
HUNTER, Robert. Newburgh, Fife 3.9.1823 — Loughton, Essex 25.2.1897. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India, Historian, Lexicographer and Naturalist. Son of John Mackenzie Hunter (1795–1878), an excise officer, and Agnes Strickland, educated in Aberdeen. Studies at Aberdeen University, classics and natural science, then theology at Edinburgh. As a tutor in…
HUIZINGA, Johan. Groningen 7.12.1872 — De Steeg, Gelderland 1.2.1945. Dutch Student of Indology, then Famous Historian. Professor in Leiden. Son of Dirk Huizinga, a Professor of Physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died when he was two. After school in Groningen studies there in 1891-97, also Indology at Leipzig. Ph.D. 1897…
HÜSING, Georg. Liegnitz in Prussian Silesia (now Legnica in Poland) 4.6.1869 — Vienna 1.9.1930. German Scholar of Near Eastern and Iranian history in Austria. Studies at Breslau, Berlin (i.al. under Andreas) and Königsberg. Ph.D. 1897 Königsberg. Living in Breslau, then Habilitation at Vienna in 1912 “für Geschichte und Kulturgeschichte des…
HOSTEN, Henri. Ramskapelle, West Flanders 26.3.1873 — Brussels 16.4.1935. S.J. Father. Belgian Missionary Scholar in India. After studies in Turnhout joined 1891 the Jesuit Order. Suspected of consumption he was in 1893 sent to Kandy to die there, but recovered quickly and started Latin teacher’s work in Ceylon. In 1900…
HORN, Paul. Halle 14.1.1863 — Strassburg 11.11.1908. German Iranian Scholar. Professor in Strassburg. Son of a railway officer, educated in Halle. Studies at Halle and Berlin, Ph.D. 1885 Halle (under Bartholomae). From 1889 PD für iranische Sprachen at Strassburg, from 1892 also a venia legendi für indogermanische Sprachen, from 1900…
HOFFMANN-KUTSCHKE, Arthur (also Artur). Hansdorf, Kreis Sagan, Silesia (now Poland) 24.6.1882 — after 1947. German Iranian Scholar. Son of railway officer. Studies of classics, history and history of religions at Jena. Ph.D. 1909 Jena. Served in WW I. Active in politics, in 1923 nine months in prison because of a…
HOEY, William. 1849 — 1919. British (Irish?) Civil Servant in India, interested in History, Archaeology and Numismatics. Son of George William Hoey and Eliza Good. Studies at Queen’s College, Belfast. M.A. Magistrate in Lucknow (1880). Commissioner in Gorakhpur (1892/98). From c. 1910 Reader in Hindustani and Indian History at Trinity…