HINLOOPEN LABBERTON, Dirk van. Doesburg, Gelderland 24.9.1874 — Ojai, Calif. 3.9.1961. Dutch Theosophist interested in Sanskrit, lived a long time in Indonesia. Son of the bookseller Richard van H.L. and Regina Henke van Assen. Matriculated 1893 from Arnhem, he went in 1894 to Indonesia and worked as employee in sugar…
HILL, Samuel Charles. Berhampore, West Bengal 16.7.1857 — 6.5.1926. British Historian of India. Son of Rev. Samuel John Hill (1825–1891), L.M.S. missionary in India (also his father, Micaiah Hill, had been missionary in India) and Leonora Josephina Müller. Educated at Blackheath School (for the sons of missionaries), at University College…
HEYMANN, Wilhelm. Bremen 12.7.1847 — Bremen 29.3.1911. German Linguist (IE and English). Teacher in Bremen. Son of a cigar manufacturer. Studied first theology, soon languages at Göttingen. Ph.D. 1873 Göttingen. According to D.L.K. he was Gymnasium teacher in Bremen in 1890 and 1900, in 1906 he is mentioned without a…
HERBERICH, Gustav. 18?? — 1???. German Student of Indology. A student of Jolly at Würzburg, Ph.D. there 1893. He was then Realschulassistent in Neuburg, later perhaps in Munich. The Washington Post 12.2. 1911, p. 59 tells that “Frau Paula Herberich is being tried in Nuernberg for killing her husband, Dr.…
HENSELER, Eugène Éric de. Fribourg 1889 — Geneva 1960. Swiss Student of Indian Religion, a Theosophist. Of a Swiss family originating from Aarau, but living in Fribourg. Educated partly in England, also in Fribourg and Lausanne. Ph.D. 1928 Fribourg. Teacher in Geneva (1937). Married Carmen von Zeisen, at least one son,…
HEDSTRÖM, Oskar Fritiof (Frithiof). Tingstäde, Gotland 10.7.1846 — Stockholm 4.3.1925. Swedish Schoolteacher and Student of Philology. Son of Captain Clas H. and Emilie Grubb. Matriculated 1865, from 1867 studies at Uppsala. Kand.fil. 1875, Ph.D. 1875 Uppsala. From 1876 kollega (teacher) in Köping, from 1880 adjunkt (teacher) in Sundsvall (mentioned there…
JOUVEAU-DUBREUIL, Gabriel. Saigon 1.1.1885 — Paris 15.7.1945. French Teacher and Archaeologist in India, He came to Pondichéry in 1909 and worked as Professor of “physique chimie” at Pondichéry Collège for 27 years (with the interruption of war Service). In 1938 apparently still living there. In 1926 found Nagarjunakonda, then excavated…
JENNINGS, James George. New South Wales 14.6.1866 — Penzance 1941. British or Australian Teacher in India. M.A. Oxford. Worked as teacher of English at Muir Central College in Allahabad (1898), between 1906-13 its Principal. Then director of publich instruction for Bihar and Orissa. C.I.E. 1919. Married, children. Publications: From an…
JANÁČEK, Adolf. Prelau (now Přerov, Olomouc region) 11.6.1901 — Prague 17.7.1963. Czechoslovakian Indologist. Ph.D. School-teacher (professor) teaching Czech and German. Publications: “František Čupr a Schopenhauer”, Česká mysl 1/25, 1929, 12-27. – “The Methodical Principle in Yoga according to Patañjali’s Yoga-Sūtras”, ArO 19, 1951, 514-567; “The ‘voluntaristic’ Type of Yoga in…
JACKSON, Victor Herbert. Ramsgate, Kent 26.12.1876 — London 18.1.1928. British Teacher and Historian in India. Son of Moses Jackson and Martha Hemming Peck. Joined Indian Educational Service in 1900, taught at Presidency College, Calcutta, and Patna College, then its Principal. Retired 1927. Publications: “Notes on old Rajagriha”, ASIAR 1913-14 (1917),…