HARLEZ DE DEULIN, Charles-Joseph, chevalier de. Huy/Liège 21.8.1832 — Louvain (Leuven) 14.7.1899. Belgian Oriental, especially Iranian scholar. Professor in Louvain. Son of Conrad-Lambert de H. (1784–1858) and Marie-Antoinette de Reul de Bonneville (1798–1855), of local nobility of Liège. Concluded law studies at Liège in 1858. Also attended a seminary and…
HARE, Edward Miles. Leicester 4.3.1893 — Oldham, Hampshire 26.10.1955. British Pāli Scholar in Sri Lanka. Son of Charles Edward Hare and Agnes Pruen. Educated at Stamford School in Lincolnshire, where F. L. Woodward was his teacher and introduced him into Pāli. Served in WW I as Lieutenant. In 1918-50 tea…
HANSEN, Olaf. St.Petersburg 11.4.1902 — Kiel 10.1.1969. German Indo-Iranian, especially Middle Iranian Scholar. Professor in Berlin (West). Son of Gottlieb Olaf Albert Hansen, librarian of Imperial Academy, and Marie Rödder. In 1917 the family escaped to Baltic states and 1919 to Hamburg. Studied at Hamburg. Ph.D. there 1927 under Reichelt.…
HAMMERICH, Martin Johannes. Copenhagen 4.12.1811 — Iselingen, Vordingborg 20.9.1881. Danish Scholar of Literature and Educator interested in Indology. Son of merchant Johannes H. and Meta Adolph (d. 1823). From 1830 studies at Copenhagen University, 1833 Cand. Theol., 1836 Mag. with a diss. on Ragnarok myth. He was much interested in…
HAMILTON, Clarence Herbert. Des Moines, Iowa 8.1.1886 — Lexington, MA 6.7.1986, when 100. U.S. Buddhist Scholar. Missionary-Professor in China 1914-27. Son of George Lee H. and Carrie Eva Wood. Educated at University of Chicago: A.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1914. In 1920-21 studied at Union Theological Seminar in New York. In 1914-27…
HAMBIS, Louis George Rémy. Ligugé (Vienne) 18.12.1906 — Paris 10.10.1978. French Central Asian Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of an industrialist. In 1927-28 studies of history, but also under Pelliot, diplome of É.P.H.É. In 1942-47 Chargé de cours de mongol at É.L.O.V. In 1947-50 Administrateur of Centre d’études sinologiques de…
HAHN, Emma Adelaide. New York 1.4.1893 — New York 8.7.1967. U.S. Classical and IE Scholar. Daughter of Otto Hahn, an Austrian immigrant, and Eleonore Funk. Educated at home, then at Hunter College in New York (A.B. 1915) and Columbia University (A.M. 1917, Ph.D. 1929 under Ch. Knapp), where Sturtevant was…
GUTSCHMID, Alfred Hermann, 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 G. (1801–1836), a lawyer, and Luise von G. (1797–1848), educated in Dresden. From 1848 studies of classics and history at Leipzig and Bonn. Ph.D.…
GÜNTERT, Hermann Georg Konrad. Worms 5.11.1886 — Heidelberg 23.4.1948. German IE scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of a Roman Catholic merchant and Protestant mother of Huguenot background, himself followed mother. Educated in Weinheim and, after father’s death in 1897, in Worms. In school he learned Hebrew and privately Sanskrit. Matriculated…
GRØNBECH, Vilhelm Peter. Allinge, Bornholm 14.6.1873 — Helsingør 21.4.1948. Danish Scholar of Comparative Religion. Born in Bornholm island as the son of “blikkenslager & glarmester, senere husejer” Georg Peter G. (1844–1893) and Vilhelmine Marie Sonne (1846–1937), moved with the family to Copenhagen. In 1890 started studies at Copenhagen University, in…