HAAS, George Christian Otto. New York 28.3.1883 — Passaic, NJ 9.10.1964. U.S. Indologist and Sectarian. Son of Rev. George Christian Frederick Haas (1854–1927), a Lutheran pastor, and Anna Sophia Hansen (1859–1904). Studies at Columbia University: A.B. 1902, A.M. 1903, Ph.D. 1909 (under Williams Jackson). In 1904-11 tutor at City College…
HAAS, Ernst Anton Max. Coburg 18.4.1835 — London 3.7.1882. German Indologist in London. Son of Friedrich Haas. After school in Coburg studies of Germanic and Romance philology at Berlin and Bonn. Through comparative linguistics he became interested in Sanskrit and went to Tübingen to study under Roth, then also Weber’s…
HAAG, Friedrich. Diessenhofen (or Hüttwilen), Canton Thurgau 14.1.1846 — Bern 3.11.1914. Swiss Classical Philologist and Indologist. Son of Ulrich Haag and Barbara Zimmermann. Studies at Zürich (Schweizer-Sidler), Göttingen and Berlin (Weber). Ph.D. Zürich 1869. In 1873 teacher in Frauenfeld (where —> E. Leumann was his disciple) and PD of Sanskrit…
GURNER, Cyril Walter. London 18.1.1888 — 14.8.1960. Sir. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Educated at Merchant Taylor’s School, studies at Oriel College, Oxford, and London University. M.A. Passed the I.C.S. examination in 1910 and went to Bengal. District Magistrate in Mymensingh. From 1918 Deputy Chairman of the Calcutta…
GUNDERT, Hermann Karl. Stuttgart 4.2.1814 — Calw 25.4.1893. German Missionary and Indologist (Dravidian Scholar). Worked for Basel Mission in Kerala. Son of Franz Ludwig Gundert (1783–1854), a merchant and founder of the Württemberg Bibelanstalt, and Christina Ensslin (1792–1833). Educated at Stuttgart Gymnasium and from the age of 14 at Maulbronn…
GULJAMOVA, Rano Hodžiakbarovna. Tashkent 20.1.1940 — 11.11.1985. Uzbekistanian Indologist (Hindi). Daughter of an official. Graduated 1962 Tashkent. Kand. filol. nauk 1976. In 1962-85 taught at Oriental Faculty, Tashkent University. Publications: Kand.diss. Višnu Prabhakar – prozaik i dramaturg. Manuscript of 168 p. M. 1976. – “Nekotorye idejno-hudož. osobennosti romana Višnu Prabhakara ‘Nišikant’”,…
GUIEYSSE, Georges. Paris 1.1.1869 — 17.5.1889. French Indologist. Son of Eugène Guieysse (d. 1889), a physician, sister’s son to the engineer-Egyptologist and politician Paul Guieysse (1841–1914). Educated at Lycée Henri IV, then studies of Indology and IE under S. Lévi, Bréal, Bergaigne, de Saussure, and Darmesteter. One of the first…
GUÉRINOT, Armand Albert. Messon (Aube) 25.11.1872 — 1940?. French Indologist. Studied under Regnaud at Lyon, Ph.D. there 1900. Also dr.med. Further studies at Bonn under Jacobi. In 1909 he was “correcteur pour la typographie orientale” in Imprimérie nationale, in 1924 no longer a member of Société asiatique. Mainly a scholar…
GRÜNWEDEL, Albert. Munich 31.7.1856 — Lenggries bei Bad Tölz, Bavaria 28.10. (or 7.11.?) 1935. German Indologist, Tibetologist, Archaeologist and Art Historian. Museum Director in Berlin. Son of Karl Grünwedel (1815–1895), a painter and lithograph, and Franziska (Fanny) La Roch, educated at Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich. In 1876-79 studied at Munich classical…
GROWSE, Frederic(k) Salmon. Bildeston, Suffolk 13.11.1836 — Haslemere, Surrey 19.5.1893. British Civil Servant and Indologist (Hindi Scholar) in India. Son of Robert Growse (1798–1877) and Mary Elizabeth Terry. Educated at Oriel College, from 1855 studies at Queen’s College, Oxford (B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862). Joined the I.C.S. in 1860, served in…