JANSEN, Hubert. Riethausen bei Kleve (Rheinland) 2.11.1854 — 1917. German Scholar of Muslim India. Ph.D. 1894 Leipzig. Living in Berlin (1906/11). His other interests included Sogdian Turfan fragments and, surprisingly, technical and scientific lexicography. Publications: Diss. two parts of a larger work: Bemerkungen zur Verskunst im Urdu (also in GSAI 7,…
JANERT, Klaus Ludwig. Wittenberg 19.3.1922 — 10.12.1994. German Indologist. Professor in Cologne. Studied Indology, Tamil, IE and Slavic linguistics at Halle (under Thieme) and Göttingen, where Ph.D. 1954. Worked in Göttingen University Library. In 1962-63 PD at Tübingen, then from 1963 ord. Professor of Indology at Köln. Retired in 1987.…
JACOBI, Hermann Georg. Köln 11.2.1850 (or 1.2.?) — Bonn 19.10.1937. German Indologist. Professor in Bonn. Son of a steam mill owner, Friedrich Heinrich Otto Jacobi (1803–1880) and Caroline Zeiz. Roman Catholic, educated in Köln. From 1868 studies of mathematics at Berlin, switched soon to Sanskrit and IE. Through Weber he…
JACOB, George Adolphus (not Augustus). Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 21.8.1840 — Redhill, Surrey 9.4.1918. British Colonial Officer and Indologist in India. Colonel, in India 1857-90. Son of Rev. George Andrew Jacob. D.D. (1807–1896) and Susanna Pidsley (1807–1896), nephew of —> Philip Wh. Jacob (1804–1889), of a well-known family of colonial servants and…
JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams. New York City 9.2.1862 — New York City 8.8.1937. U.S. Indo-Iranian scholar. Professor in New York. Son of David Sherwood Jackson (1837–1872), a merchant, and his wife Elizabeth. Educated in New York. From 1879 studies at Columbia College and University, began with classics and Anglo-Saxon, but…
IORDĂNESCU, Teodor. Alexandria 12./25.2.1872 — 1954. Romanian Scholar interested in Indology. Studied at Bucharest (diplome 1897) and in 1901-03 i.al. Indology at Halle (under Pischel, R. Schmidt and Hultzsch). High school professor of Latin (1910). Younger friend of —> C. Georgian. In 1928 attended the Orientalist Conference in Oxford. Publications:…
INGALLS, Daniel Henry Holmes. New York City 4.5.1916 — Hot Springs, Va 17.7.1999. U.S. Indologist. Professor in Cambridge, Mass. Son of Fay Ingalls and Rachel Conwell Holmes. Grew up in Virginia. Studies of classics, philosophy and Sanskrit (W. E. Clark) at Harvard: A.B. 1936, A.M. 1938. Also studied some Chinese…
ILSE(-MUNK), Rose Gertrud Emma. Berlin 5,3,1876 — Auschwitz (Oświęcim) ?.3.1943. German Translator. Daughter of Hermann Munk (1839–1912), Professor of Physiology, and Olga Jaffé. Ph.D. Married Friedrich Gustav Constantin Ilse (1862–1950), two sons and two daughters. As a Jew she became holocaust victim. Publications: With H. Goetz: Gedichte aus der indische…
HAUVETTE-BESNAULT, Eugène-Louis. Malesherbes (Loiret) 15.2. 1820 — Malesherbes 28.6.1890. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Studies at Séminaire de Saint-Nicolas, after matriculation tutor for the son of Minister of Education until 1848. Licencié 1848, soon agrégé des lettres (1853). Worked as Librarian at École normale supérieure, during his leisure studied Sanskrit…
HATFIELD, James Taft. Brooklyn, NY 15.6.1862 — Cook county, Illinois 3.10.1945. U.S. Linguist (Germanic and IE) and Indologist. Professor in Evanstown. Son of a Methodist minister, Robert Miller Hatfield (1819–1891) and Elizabeth Ann Taft. Educated in Philadelphia. Graduated A.B. 1883 Northwestern University, A.M. 1886 ibid. (and 1937 Litt.D.). In 1883-84…