JAGIĆ, Ignati Vatroslav, Ritter von Varaždin. Varaždin, Croatia (then Austria) 6.6.1838 — Vienna 5.8.1923. Croatian Slavic Linguist and Philologist. Son of Vinko Jagić (1802–1870), a master boot maker, and Ana Kraijek. After gymnasium in Zagreb, studies of classical, Slavic, etc. languages at Vienna (under Miklosich, et al.) in 1856-60. Then…
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.…
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…
HADLEY, James. Fairfield, NY 30.3.1821 — New Haven, CT 14.11.1872. U.S. Classical (Greek) Scholar also interested in Sanskrit and IE. Professor in New Haven. Son of James Hadley, Professor of Chemistry, and Maria Hamilton, educated in Fairfield and at Yale (B.A. 1842). In 1843-44 studies at Yale Divinity School. In…
HABERLANDT, Michael. Altenburg (now Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary) 29.9.1860 — Vienna 14.6.1940. Austrian Anthropologist and Indologist. Son of agronomist Friedrich Haberlandt (1826–1878) and Katharina Köhler. Studies of Indology, etc. at Vienna (Fr. Müller & Bühler), Ph.D. 1882. In 1892 he became the first PD of Ethnology at Vienna University, from 1910 with…
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…
GUTSCHMID, Hermann Alfred, Freiherr von. Loschwitz bei Dresden 1.7.1831 — Tübingen 2.3.1887. German Historian, Classical Philologist and Oriental Scholar. Professor in Tübingen. Son of Hermann von Gutschmidt (1801–1836), a lawyer, and Luise von Gutschmidt (1797–1848, his cousin), educated in Dresden. From 1848 studies of classics and history at Leipzig and 1851…
GROTEFEND, Georg Friedrich. Hannoversch-Münden 9.6.1775 — Hannover 15.12.1853. German Philologist and Historian, the Famous Pioneer of Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies, Decipherer of the Old Persian Cuneiform Script. Son of Johann Christian Grotefend (1738–1813), a shoemaker, and Sophie Wolff (1737–1791). After Pädagogium in Ilfeld from 1795 studies of theology and philosophy…
GROHMANN, Joseph Virgil. Hainspach (Haňšpach), Bez. Schluckenau (now Šluknov in Czech) 12.12.1831 — Prague 12.10.1919. Austro-Bohemian Teacher interested in Philology, also Journalist, Author and Politician. Studies of classical and German philology and Sanskrit at Prague (i.al. under G. Curtius and Schleicher), Ph.D. there 1857. In 1856-63 Professor at Prager Handelsakademie,…
GREENOUGH, James Bradstreet. Portland, Maine 4.5.1833 — Cambridge, MA 11.10.1901. U.S. Classical Scholar and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor at Harvard. Son of James Greenough (1802–1885) and his wife Catharine, the family moved soon to Boston. After Boston Latin School graduated A.B. in 1856 from Harvard College. Studied one year…