IVĂNESCU, Gheorghe. Vutcani, Vaslui 20.10/2.11.1912 — Iași 3.6.1987. Romanian Scholar interested in IE and India. Educated in Bârlad. Studies at Iași, then 1934-35 in Paris and 1935-37 in Rome. Ph.D. 1945 (diss. on Old Romanian). In 1945-52 (Assistant?) Professor of Romanian at Iași, then of Romance Linguistics at Timișoara, from…
IRELAND, John D. North London 1932 — 29.10.1998. English Bauddha. Adopted Buddhism when 18 (after reading Chr. Humphrey’s book) and began learning Pāli. Publications: Translated: Samyutta Nikaya: An Anthology. 52 p. 1981; The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata. 23 p. 1983; The Udāna. Kandy 1990; Vangisa: An…
ILDEPHONSUS A PRAESENTATIONE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS (lay Joseph Igris). Skalitz/Szakolcza, Diocese Neutra, Hungary (now Skalica in Slovakia) 1724 — Mielec, Austrian Galicia (now Poland) 30.10. 1790. Father. Austrian or Hungarian (?) Carmelite Priest and Missionary in South India. Joined the order (its Polonian Province) in 1748 in Cracow. In 1756-59 studied…
HAUSHEER, Jakob. Wollishofen bei Zürich 11.10.1865 — Zürich 7.5.1943. Swiss Orientalist. Son of Johann Kaspar H., a poor farmer, and Anna Barbara Weiss, educated in Zollikon and Zürich. Studied theology and Semitics at Zürich and Halle. Ordained priest 1888. Ph.D. 1889 Halle (under Thorbecke). Taught religion and Hebrew at schools…
HAUG, Martin. Ostdorf bei Balingen, Württemberg 30.1.1827 — Ragaz, Switzerland 3.6.1876. German Indo-Iranian Scholar. Son of a farmer, Martin H., who only reluctantly allowed his talented son to pursue studies, and Anna Maria Jetter (d. 1841). At the age of 16 he worked as an auxiliary teacher. On his own…
HAUER, Jakob Wilhelm. Kitzingen, Kr. Leonberg, Württemberg 4.4.1881 — Tübingen 18.2.1962. German Indologist. Professor in Tübingen. Son of a master plasterer, Jakob Hauer, and Gottliebin Maier, in a Pietist family. After elementary school learned his father’s craft, but went in 1900 to the mission school of Basel. In 1907 to…
HARTMAN, Sven Samuel. Högbo, Gävleborgs län 22.6.1917 — Balma (Haute-Garonne), France 2.4.1988. Swedish Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Åbo (Turku) and Lund. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Carl August H. and Anna Victoria Karlsson, both of The Salvation Army. Matriculation from Stockholm in 1937, studies at Uppsala (M.A. 1944, M.Th. 1947,…
HARRISON, Max Hunter. Victoria, co. Knox, Illinois 24.12.1893 — Auburndale, co. Middlesex, Mass. 20.2.1986. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Jacob H. H. and Ellen Wilmetta Levalley. Studied mathematics and Greek at Knox College (B.A. 1913), then at Andower Newton Theological School (B.Th. 1916) and Harvard Divinity School (M.Th.…
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…
HARDY, Robert Spence. Preston, Lancashire 1.7.1803 — Headingley near Leeds 16.4.1868. Rev. British Methodist Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of John Hardy and Ann Spence. From 1819 printer in York, in 1825 ordained as Wesleyan minister and left for the first time as missionary to Ceylon where he worked three…