HYDE, Thomas. Billingsley near Bridgnorth, Shropshire 29.6.1636 — Oxford 18.2.1703. Rev. English Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar, a Pioneer of Zoroastrian Studies. Professor in Oxford. Son of Rev. Ralph Hyde, the learned vicar of Billingsley, and Anne Jennings, educated at Eton. In the age of 16 began Arabic studies at…
HROZNÝ, Bedřich (Friedrich Hr.). Lissa (now Lysá nad Labem) 6.5.1879 — Prague 12.12.1952. Czech Orientalist (Assyriologist and Hittite Scholar), attempted at Decipherment of Indus Script. Professor in Prague. Son of Václav Hrozný (d. 1896), a Lutheran priest, and Anna Šimáčková. Educated in Prague and Köln (Kolín), now learnt Hebrew and…
HOROVITZ, Josef (Chajim). Lauenburg, Pommern (Lębork in Poland) 26.7.1874 — Frankfurt 5.2.1931. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Born in a Jewish family, son of the orthodox Rabbi and historian Marcus Horovitz (1844–1910, originally from Hungary) and Auguste Ettlinger, brother of the Rabbi and philologist Jacob Horovitz (1873–1939). Educated in Frankfurt a.M.…
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…
HOLMBOE, Christopher Andreas. Vang/Valdres, Oppland 19.3.1796 — Christiania (Oslo) 2.4.1882. Norwegian Orientalist and Numismatician. Professor in Christiania. Son of Rev. Jens Holmboe (1746–1822) and Cathrine Holst. Matriculated from Cathedral School of Christiania in 1814. Studies of theology at the new university of Christiania, graduated cand.theol. 1818. Sent by Professor Hersleben…
HOFFMANN, Andreas Gottlieb. Welbsleben, Grafschaft Mansfeld (Sachsen-Anhalt) 13.4.1796 — Jena 16.3.1864. German Orientalist and Theologian (a specialist of Syriac) also interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Jena. Son of a miller, educated in Egeln and at Domgymnasium in Magdeburg. Without matriculation he voluntarily joined light infantry against the French in 1813.…
HIRZEL, Bernhard. Enge near Zürich 12.8.1807 — Paris 6.6.1847. Swiss Indologist, Priest and Politician. Priest and Docent in Zürich. Son of Johannes Hirzel (1776–1842), a wealthy industrialist, and Margaretha Bürkli. Studied theology at Carolinum in Zürich, where he learnt well Hebrew and Arabic. In 1831 further studies at Berlin, where…
HINZ, Walther. Stuttgart 19.11.1906 — Göttingen 12.4.1992. German Oriental and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of a merchant, lost early his parents. In 1926-30 studied at Leipzig, Munich and Paris, first journalism, but soon switched to East European history, Slavistics, Turkish and Persian (under Schaeder and Massé). Ph.D. 1930…
HINCKS, Edward. Cork 19.8.1792 — Killyleagh, county Down 3.12.1866. Rev. Anglo-Irish Priest and Oriental Scholar. The eldest son of the Presbyterian minister and naturalist Thomas Dix Hincks (1767–1857), whose father came in 1767 from Chester to Dublin, and Anne Boult. Educated at home and at Middleton College in Cork, from…
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.