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  • (IMBAULT-)HUART, Clément

    (IMBAULT-)HUART, Marie Clément. Paris 15.2.1854 — Paris 30.12.1926. French Oriental Scholar. Son of an advocate. Started Arabic in the age of 14, then studied at É.P.H.É. ...

  • HAACK, August

    HAACK, August. Oppeln, Upper Silesia (now Opole in Poland) 10.6.1845 — Ratibor (Racibórz in Poland) 12.6.1908. German Priest and Translator of Sanskrit Classics.

  • HAAFNER (Haffner), Jacob

    HAAFNER (Haffner), Jacob Godfried. Halle 13.5.1754 — Amsterdam 4.9.1809. Dutch (German-born) traveller and precursor of Indology. His father, Matthias Haffner, ...

  • HAAG, Friedrich

    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 ...

  • HAARH, Erik

    HAARH, Erik Helge. Frederiksberg 20.9.1929 — 1.12.1993. Danish Scholar of Tibetan and Comparative Religion. Professor in Aarhus. Son ...

  • HAAS, Ernst

    HAAS, Ernst Anton Max. Coburg 18.4.1835 — London 3.7.1882. German Indologist in London. Son of Friedrich Haas. After school in ...

  • HAAS, George C. O.

    HAAS, George Christian Otto. New York 28.3.1883 — Passaic, NJ 9.10.1964. U.S. Indologist and Sectarian. Son of Rev. George Christian ...

  • HAAS, Hans

    HAAS, Hans. Dumdorf near Bayreuth 3.12.1868 — Leipzig 10.9.1934. German Priest and Scholar of Comparative Religion, Japanese and Buddhism. Professor in Leipzig. Son ...

  • HABERLANDT, Michael

    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. ...

  • HABSBURG, Josef, Erzherzog von Österreich

    HABSBURG, Josef Karl Ludwig, Erzherzog von Österreich (József Károly Lajos, nom-de-plume József Főherczec ). Pozsony (Bratislava) 2.3.1833 — Fiume (Rijeka) 13.6.1905. Austro-Hungarian Nobleman, ...

  • HACKER, Paul

    HACKER, Paul Artur Erhard. Seelscheid, Bergisches Land (Kreis Sieg) 6.1.1913 — Münster, Westfalen 18.3.1979. German Indologist. Professor in Bonn and Münster. Son of ...

  • HACKIN, J. Ria

    HACKIN, J. Ria (Marie Alice, née Parmentier). Rombas, Moselle (then German) 7.9.1905 — on sea 24.2.1941. Luxemburgian, the wife and ...

  • HACKIN, Joseph Gaspard

    HACKIN, Joseph Gaspard. Boevange-sur-Attert (Luxemburg) 8.11.1885 (or 1886?) — on sea 24.2.1941. French (born Luxemburgian) Officer and Archaeologist of Afghanistan, also interested in Tibet. French citizen ...

  • HACKMANN, Heinrich

    HACKMANN, Heinrich Friedrich. Gaste near Osnabrück 31.8.1864 (1865?) — Hildesheim 13.7.1935. German Sinologist, Lutheran Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion in the Netherlands. Professor ...

  • HADAWAY, William Snelling

    HADAWAY, William Snelling. Maiden, MA 1872 — ?.10.1941. U.S. Artist in India. Son of Ephraim Locke Hadaway (1848–1914) and Helen Agnes Noyes. Trained at School of the Museum of ...

  • HADLEY, George

    HADLEY, George. 174? — London 10.9.1798. British Colonial Officer in India, Author of the first Hindūstānī Grammar in English. He joined the E.I.C.’s Bengal Army as ...

  • HADLEY, James

    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 ...

  • HAEBERLIN, Johannes

    HAEBERLIN (Häberlen), Johannes. Tuttlingen, Württemberg 19.8.1808 — Hooghly near Calcutta 12.11.1849. German Missionary and Indologist, in India 1832-37 and 1839-49. Son of Joh. ...

  • HAEGHEN, Philippe van der

    HAEGHEN, Philippe van der. Brussels 24.2.1825 — Paris 1886. Belgian Scholar interested in Indology. Son of Guillaume van der Haeghen and Marie-Anne-Antoinette-Sophie ...

  • HAEKEL, Joseph

    HAEKEL, Joseph. Vienna 17.6.1907 — Vienna 2.11.1973. Austrian Ethnologist. Son of a court official. From 1931 studied ethnology at Vienna. Ph.D. 1935 Vienna, then Assistant ...

  • HAENISCH, Erich

    HAENISCH, Erich. Berlin 27.8.1880 — Stuttgart 21.12.1966. German Sinologist and Mongolist. Professor. Son of an attorney, educated in Berlin. In 1899-1903 studied Chinese, Mongolian and Manchu at Berlin (W. ...

  • HAGEMANN, Gottfried

    HAGEMANN, Gottfried Ernst. Hannover 17?? — Rome ?.3.1809. German pioneer of Indology. In Paris lived as a lodger in the house of Fr. Schlegel and together ...

  • HAGER, Berthold
    HAGER, Berthold. Kippenheim, Baden 1915 — ?.7.2003. German Teacher and former Student of Indology. Son of Rev. Georg Hager. From 1933 studied at Tübingen, ...
  • HAGREN, Klas

    HAGREN, Klas. Uddevalla 12.2.1953 — Uppsala 26.8.2000. Swedish Indologist. Matric­ul­ated from Uddevalla 1973. Studies of Indology at Stockholm and Uppsala. In 1988-2000 universitetsadjunkt teaching Sanskrit, ...

  • HAHLWEG, Klaus

    HAHLWEG, Klaus. 1921 — 1995. German Buddhist Scholar. During the war student of von Glasenapp at Königsberg. Ph.D. Munich 1954 (under H. Hoffmann). In ...

  • HAHN, E. Adelaide

    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 ...

  • HAHN, Ferdinand

    HAHN, Karl Heinrich Philipp Ferdinand. Ketzin bei Berlin 25.2.1846 (1845?) — Himalaya 3.5.1910. Rev. German Missionary in India. Son of a shoemaker, learned cobbler’s work as ...

  • HAIG, T. Wolseley

    HAIG, Thomas Wolseley. Plumstead, Woolwich, Kent 7.8.1865 — Kensington, London 23.4./28.4./4.5.1938. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Historian of India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Major Robert Wolseley Haig ...

  • HÁJEK, Lubor

    HÁJEK, Lubor. Nové Strašecí, Rakovnik region 5.5.1921 — Prague 2.3.2000. Czech Art Historian. Studies of Indology at Prague in 1945-49 (Lesný and Pertold). Ph.D. 1949 Prague ...

  • HALBFASS, Wilhelm

    HALBFASS, Wilhelm. Nordheim, Niedersachsen 11.5.1940 — Bryn Mawr, PA 25.5.2000. German Indologist and Philosopher in the U.S.A. After 20 years in the U.S.A. still German citizen. ...

  • HALE, William Henry
    HALE, William Henry. Albany, NY 20.8.1840 — Brooklyn, NY 3.5.1919. U.S. Lawyer. Son of Silvester Hale (1804–1881) and Nancy Arzelia Eames. Studies at Yale (B.A. 1860) and S.U.N.Y. Albany (LL.B. 1861). Ph.D. 1863 ...
  • HALÉVY, Joseph

    HALÉVY, Joseph. Adrianople (now Edirne) 15.12.1827 — Paris 21.1.1917. French (originally Turkish Jew) Epigraphist, Semitist and Traveller. Professor in Paris, naturalized Frenchman 1865. Taught Hebrew ...

  • HALHED, Nathaniel Brassey

    HALHED, Nathaniel Brassey. Westminster 25.5.1751 — London 18.2.1830. British Precursor of Indology. Son of William Halhed, a bank director, and Frances Caswal, educated at Harrow. From ...

  • HALL, E. H.

    HALL, E. H. 18?? — 19??. British Library Worker. Grierson’s student and his Assistant in the L.S.I. from c. 1903 in London. Later he ...

  • HALL, Fitzedward

    HALL, Fitzedward. Troy, N.Y. 21.3.1825 — Marlesford, Suffolk 1.2.1901 (or 11.2.?). U.S. Indologist, in India 1846-62 and then in the U.K. Born in an old New ...

  • HALL, Robert A., Jr.

    HALL, Robert Anderson, Jr. (born William Durham Hall). Raleigh, NC 4.4.1911 — Ithaca, NY 2.12.1997. U.S. Linguist. Son of R. A. Hall, Senior and Lolabel House. In 1919 the family ...

  • HALLADE, Madeleine

    HALLADE, Madeleine. Colombes near Paris 18.5.1891 — 30.9.1968. Mlle. French Art Historian, Specialist of Gandhāran and Central Asian Art. Educated at Lycée Racine and Cheltenham ...

  • HALLAM, Ebenezer Charles Bethlehem

    HALLAM, Ebenezer Charles Bethlehem. Worcester 1.1.1833 — Lakemont, Yates County, NY 9.1.1915. British (Canadian) Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Hallam (1801–1888) and Ann Chamberlin. Educated ...

  • HALLETT, Holt S.

    HALLETT, Holt Samuel. London 1841 — London 11.11.1911. British Railway Engineer in India. Son of T. Perlham L. Hallett, LL.D., of Dorset, educated at ...

  • HALLOCK, Richard T.
    HALLOCK, Richard Treadwell. Passaic, NJ 5.4.1906 — Chicago 20.11.1980. U.S. Assyriologist and Specialist of Elamite. Studied at University of Toronto (B.A. 1929), then Assyriology at Chicago (M.A. 1931, ...
  • HALOUN, Gustav

    HALOUN, Gustav. Pirnitz (now Brtnice in Moravia) 12.1.1898 — Cambridge 24.12.1951. Czech/German Sinologist in the U.K. Professor in Cambridge. Son of forest officer (Forstrat) G. Haloun, ...

  • HAMAKER, Hendrik Arent

    HAMAKER, Hendrik Arent. Amsterdam 25.2.1789 — Neerlangbroek, Utrecht Province 7.10.1835. Dutch Oriental Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Leiden. Studies of classical philology, then of Oriental ...

  • HAMBIS, Louis

    HAMBIS, Louis George Rémy. Ligugé (Vienne) 18.12.1906 — Maison-Laffitte near Paris 10.10.1978. French Central Asian Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of an industrialist. In ...

  • HAMILTON, Alexander

    HAMILTON, Alexander. 3.10.1762 — Liverpool 30.12.1824. British (Scottish) Pioneer of Indology. Born in Scotland (if not in India), son of William Hamilton (1722–1783), a merchant in ...

  • HAMILTON, Alexander

    HAMILTON, Alexander. 16?? — after 1733. British Sea Captain. First sailed in Europe, North Africa and West Indies. In 1688-1723 trading and travelling in the East, ...

  • HAMILTON, Charles

    HAMILTON, Charles. Belfast 1752/53 — Hampstead, London 14.3.1792, when 39. British Colonial Officer in India. Probably son of Charles H., a merchant (d. 1759), and Katherine ...

  • HAMILTON, Clarence H.

    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 Hamilton and ...

  • HAMILTON, Francis

    HAMILTON, Francis —> Francis BUCHANAN-HAMILTON

  • HAMILTON, J. H. F.

    HAMILTON, John Herbert Fearnley (Fearnly). 1858? — Ratnapura 20.5.1894, when 36. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Peter Hamilton. Studied briefly at ...

  • HAMILTON, Robert Clifton

    HAMILTON, Robert Clifton. 18?? — 19??. British Civil Servant in India. Educated at Christ’s Hospital in Sussex. Served in India from 1893-1920. In 1900 he had been seven years ...

  • HAMM, Frank-Richard

    HAMM, Frank-Richard. Königsberg 8.10.1920 — Bonn 11.11.1973. German Indologist and Tibetan Scholar. Professor in Bonn. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard and Hedwig Hamm, moved with his parents ...

  • HAMMERICH, Louis Leonor

    HAMMERICH, Louis Leonor. Copenhagen 31.7.1892 — Hørsholm/Hillerød 1.11.1975. Danish Linguist (Germanist). Son of Kai August Hammerich (1861–1946), an official, and Louise Camille Bentzen.

  • HAMMERICH, Martin

    HAMMERICH, Martin Johannes. Copenhagen 4.12.1811 — Iselingen, Vordingborg 20.9.1881. Danish Scholar of Literature, Art Historian and Educator interested in Indology. Son of merchant Johannes ...

  • HANDT, Werner

    HANDT, Werner. 18?? — 19??. German student of Indology. In 1899 he was in Greifswald. Ph.D. 1900 Tübingen (apparently student of Garbe).

    HANNAH, Herbert Bruce

    HANNAH, Herbert Bruce. Calcutta 1862 — Calcutta 10.10.1930. British Lawyer in India. Son of William Cooper Hannah (1817–1878) and Agnes Johnstone.  Many years before 1912 studied ...

  • HANNAY, Simon Fraser

    HANNAY, Simon Fraser. Inverness 12.11.1801 — Dibrugarh, Assam 30.1.1861. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Henry Hannay (1766–1822) and Helen Fraser (1777–1815). ...

  • HANSEN, Olaf

    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 (1867–1939), the librarian ...

  • HANUSZ, Jan

    HANUSZ, Jan. Kołodziejówka near Stanisławów (then in Austrian Galicia, now Kolodiivka in Ukraine) 13.7.1858 — Paris 26.7.1887. Polish (Austrian) Indo-Iranian, Slavic, Armenian and Gipsy Scholar. Born ...

  • HANXLEDEN, Ernst

    HANXLEDEN, Johannes Ernst (Arṇṇōsŭ pātiri = Ernst Padre). Osterkappeln bei Osnabrück 1681 — “Pashur” (Pazhur), Kerala 20/21.3.1732. Father. S.J. German Missionary and Precursor of ...

  • HAPPEL, Julius

    HAPPEL, Julius. 1843 — 1912. German Theologian. Lutheran priest in Bützow, 1884 moved to Heubach. He wrote about religions in order to show the superiority of Christianity.

  • HARDING, H. O. D.

    HARDING, Herbert Oliver Denman. 1863 — Tiruccirappalli 22.2.1916. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Harding and his wife Esther. Studies at Oxford ...

  • HARDY, Edmund

    HARDY, Edmund Georg Nicolaus. Mainz 9.7.1852 — Bonn 10.10.1904. German Catholic Priest and Indologist. Son of pharmacist Edmund Hardy (1816–1878) ...

  • HARDY, Friedhelm E
    HARDY, Friedhelm Ernst (Fred). Köln 4.3.1943 — Reading 4.8.2004. German Indologist and Scholar of Indian Religion in the U.K. Brought up by ...
  • HARDY, R. Spence

    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 Mary Anne Spence. ...

  • HARE, Edward Miles

    HARE, Edward Miles. Leicester 4.3.1893 — Oldham, Hampshire 26.10.1955. British Pāli Scholar in Sri Lanka. Son of Charles Edward Hare ...

  • HARES, Walter Pullin

    HARES, Walter Pullin. Alcester, Warwickshire 12.4.1877 — 21.1.1962. British Missionary in India. Son of George Daniel Hares (1841–1913) and Harriet Emma Pullin. Educated at King’s Lynn ...

  • HARGREAVES, Harold

    HARGREAVES, Harold. 29.5.1876 — 1951. British Archaeologist in India. In 1897 visited Ceylon. For a while served as headmaster of ...

  • HARINGTON, John Herbert

    HARINGTON, John Herbert. Woodford, Witshire 12.3.1765 — London 9.4.1828. British Civil Servant and Oriental Scholar in India. In India 1780-1819 & 1822-28. Son of Rev. John ...

  • HARKNESS, Henry

    HARKNESS, Henry. Lympstone, Devon 7.10.1787 — Lympstone, Devon 17.8.1838. British Colonial ...

  • HARLE, James (Jim) C.
    HARLE, James (Jim) Coffin. Santa Monica, Calif. 5.4.1920 — 27.6.2004. U.S. Art Historian in the U.K. Son of James Wyly Harle and Elfrieda ...
  • HARLEZ, Charles-Joseph, chevalier de

    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 Harlez (1784–1858) and Marie-Antoinette de ...

  • HARMATTA, János
    HARMATTA, János. Hódmezővásárhely, komitat Csongrád 2.10.1917 — Buda­pest 24.7.2004. Hungarian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Born in south-eastern Hungary. After gymnasium in his home town from 1935 studies of classical, ...
  • HARPER, William Rainey

    HARPER, William Rainey. New Concord, Ohio 24.7.1856 — Chicago 10.1.1906. U.S. Linguist. Born in an Irish-Scottish family, son of Samuel Harper (1823–1905) and Elizabeth Rainey. A child prodigy who ...

  • HARRINGTON, John P.

    HARRINGTON, John Peabody. Waltham, MA 29.4.1884 — San Diego, CAL 21.10.1961. U.S. Linguist and Anthropologist. Son of Elliot Augustus Harrington (1850–1936) and Mary Lidia Peabody. ...

  • HARRIS, Charles

    HARRIS, Charles. Albion, Illinois 19.11.1859 — Cleveland 2.9.1943. U.S. Germanist, also Student of Indology. Son of George Harris (1829–1916) and Catherine Smith. In 1875-79 studies at ...

  • HARRIS, Claudius

    HARRIS, Claudius Richard William. India 1826 — 1862. British Colonial Officer and Artist in India. In India from 1846. He was Captain in Madras Light ...

  • HARRIS, E. B.

    HARRIS, E. B. 1??? — 1???. British Railway Engineer in India. During the railway construction in 1862 in Bihar he discovered the Sultanganj bronze Buddha (then ...

  • HARRIS, Henry

    HARRIS, Henry. Mountrath, county Laois, Ireland 3.1.1758 — Madras 10.8.1822. British (Irish?) Physician in India. Son of John Harris (1715–1776) and Sarah Deaves. M.D

  • HARRIS, Mary Belle

    HARRIS, Mary Belle. Factoryville, PA 19.8.1874 — Lewisburg, PA 22.2.1957. U.S. Administrator and former Student of Sanskrit. Daughter of John Howard Harris (1847–1925), a Baptist minister ...

  • HARRIS, William Henry

    HARRIS, William Henry. Wann, Oklahoma 28.6.1922 — Carbondale, Illinois 28.10.1966. U.S. Scholar of Religion and Philosophy. Son of Elmer Lawley Harris (1878–1954) and Mary Irene Phelps. ...

  • HARRISON, H. J.

    HARRISON, H. J. 1??? — 1???. Rev. Missionary. Educated at Bishop’s College in Calcutta. In 1841 missionary in Barrioore near Calcutta, also studies at Bishop’s College. ...

  • HARRISON, Hugh

    HARRISON, Hugh. Dublin 27.5.1870 — Barnstaple, Devon 17.11.1944. British (Irish) Colonial Officer in India. ...

  • HARRISON, Max H.

    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 Hunter ...

  • HARRY, Joseph Edward

    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, ...

  • HART, Eric George

    HART, Eric George. Mangalore 6.2.1878 — 8.10.1946. British Colonial Officer in India, then Professor in Dublin. Son of Henry Hart, M.B.E. Educated at Victoria College in ...

  • HART, Gillian (Jill) R.
    HART, Gillian (Jill) R. Eastbourne, Sussex 11.8.1934 — 8.2.2004. British Indo-European Linguist. Daughter of farmer Alexander and Catherine Hart. During the war ...
  • HÄRTEL, Herbert
    HÄRTEL, Herbert. Hoyerswerda 7.5.1921 — Berlin 23.11.2005. German Indologist, Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian. Studies at Halle and Göttingen (under Waldschmidt). Ph.D. Göttingen 1953. In 1953-62 Curator ...
  • HARTING, Peter

    HARTING, Peter (Pieter Nicolaus Ubbo). Batavia (Jakarta) 15.1.1892 — Amsterdam 11.8.1970. Dutch Indologist and Linguist (English). After Gymnasium in Amersfoort studied at Utrecht (1918 M.A. ...

  • HARTMAN, Sven Samuel

    HARTMAN, Sven Samuel. Högbo, Gävleborgs län 22.6.1917 — Balma (Haute-Garonne), France 2.4.1988. Swedish Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Åbo ...

  • HARTMANN, Felix

    HARTMANN, Felix. Berlin 7.1.1857 — 19??. German Germanist, Classical, and IE Scholar. Studied 1874-80 at Berlin, also studies of IE at Göttingen under Wackernagel. Ph.D. ...

  • HARTMANN, Gerda
    HARTMANN, Gerda. Kiel 1908 — ????. Miss. German Student of Indology. Studies at Kiel, Ph.D. 1932. Around 1938 migrated to the U.S.A. and worked in the Library ...
  • HARTMANN, Hans

    HARTMANN, Hans Adolf Dietrich. Rüstringen bei Wilhelmshaven 18.11.1909 — 11.12.2000. German Linguist and Celtologist. Son of a policeman, Gustav Hartmann, and Johanna Theiken, educated in Jever. ...

  • HARTMANN, Peter

    HARTMANN, Peter. Berlin-Schöneberg 16.4.1923 — Münster 9.3.1984. German Linguist. Professor in Münster and Konstanz. Son of Hubert Hartmann, an officer, and grandson of —> Felix ...

  • HARTOG, Hans

    HARTOG, Hans. 19?? — 1995. German Scholar of Religion. Started studies at Munich (Wüst). He was Assistant of Wüst, but eventually left him as Wüst as a Nazi did ...

  • HARTSHORNE, Bertram Fulke

    HARTSHORNE, Bertram Fulke. Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire 1844 — Brentford, Middlesex ?.3.1922. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne ...

  • HARWARD, John

    HARWARD, John Henry. Wirksworth, Derbyshire 27.5.1858 — Warwick, Queensland, Australia 30.9.1932. British Teacher in Sri Lanka. Educated in Durham, in 1878-81 studies at Oxford (University College, M.A.). In 1882-91 ...

  • HAŞDEU, Bogdan Petriceicu

    HAŞDEU, Bogdan Petriceicu (himself wrote Hasdeu, born as Tadeu Hâjdău). Cristineştii, Hotinului, Bessarabia (now Kerstentsi in Ukraina) 26.2.1838 — Cîmpína ...

  • HASE, Carl Benedict / Charles-Benoît

    HASE, Carl Benedikt / Charles-Benoît. Sulza, Thüringen 11.5.1780 — Paris 21.3.1864. German Linguist in France. Professor in Paris. Son of Christian-Heinrich Hase (1731–1791), a Lutheran minister ...

  • HASKELL, Willabe

    HASKELL, Willabe (Willoughby). Freeport, Cumberland, Maine 19.8.1839 — New Haven, Conn. 7.5.1913. U.S. Scholar and Journalist. Son of William Haskell and Lydia Stockbridge. Graduated ...

  • HASTINGS, Warren

    HASTINGS, Warren. Churchill, Oxfordshire 6.12.1732 — Daylesford, Gloucestershire 22.8.1818. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Penystone Hastings (1704–1743) and his wife Hester (1715–1732), lost his ...

  • HATCH, Emily G.

    HATCH, Emily Gilchrist  (née Emily Harriet Gilchrist). 1897 — 1982. U.S. Specialist of Kerala culture. For a while worked as an ...

  • HATCH, William John

    HATCH, William John. Bere Alston, West Devon 1872 — 19??. British Missionary in South India. Son of Stephen Hatch (1847–1902) and Elizabeth Williams. Served London Missionary Society in Coimbatore ...

  • HATFIELD, James Taft

    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 ...

  • HATZIDAKIS, Georgios Nikolaou

    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 ...

  • HAUER, Jakob Wilhelm

    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 (1854–1935), and Gottliebin ...

  • HAUG, Martin

    HAUG, Martin. Ostdorf bei Balingen, Württemberg 30.1.1827 — Bad Ragaz, Canton St.Gallen, Switzerland 3.6.1876. German Indo-Iranian Scholar. Son of a farmer, Martin ...

  • HAUGHTON, Graves Champney

    HAUGHTON, Graves Champney. Dublin 1788 — St.Cloud near Paris 28.8. 1849. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Indologist. Son of the physician John Haughton (originating from a ...

  • HAUGHTON, Henry Lawrence

    HAUGHTON, Henry Lawrence. 1.11.1883 — 22.3.1955. British Colonial Officer in India. Major-General. Son of Colonel John Haughton (1852–1898) and Margareta Louisa Hare Baker (1862–1887). Educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. ...

  • HAURI, Christoph
    HAURI, Christoph-Ernst. Binningen near Basel 17.10.1929 — 18.6.2005. Swiss Linguist. Son of a priest, gymnasium in Basel. Studies at Basel, Ph.D. 1960 there. From 1960 chargé ...
  • HAUSCHILD, Richard

    HAUSCHILD, Richard Wilhelm. Roschütz, Kr. Gera 2.12.1901 — Jena 15.2.1972. German (East) Indologist. Professor in Jena. Son of a farmer, ...

  • HAUSHEER, Jakob

    HAUSHEER, Jakob. Wollishofen bei Zürich 11.10.1865 — Zürich 7.5.1943. Swiss Orientalist. Son of Johann Kaspar Hausheer (1838–1911), a poor farmer, and Anna Barbara Weiss, educated in ...

  • HÄUSLER, H.

    HÄUSLER, H. 18?? — 19??. Father. Benedictine, from Prague. In 1911 residing in Jerusalem.

    Publications: Wrote on Palestinian antiquity.

    – “Streiflichter in die Urreligion ...
  • HAUSSIG, Hans W.

    HAUSSIG, Hans Wilhelm. Berlin 3.10.1916 — Berlin 27.4.1994. German Historian of Antiquity, Byzantium and Central Asia. Ph.D. 1939 Berlin. PD 1956 at F.U.Berlin, 1968 apl. Professor ...

  • HAUTESRAYES

    HAUTESRAYES —> LE ROUX DESHAUTESRAY

  • HAUVETTE-BESNAULT, Eugène-Louis

    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 ...

  • HAVART, Daniel

    HAVART, Daniël. Amsterdam (or Utrecht?) 29.12.1650 (?) — Rotterdam ?.6.1724. Dutch Physician, 1672-85 in India. Son of Servaes Havart (d. 1666), a physician, and Elisabeth Vermeer. Studies at Utrecht. ...

  • HAVELL, Ernest B.

    HAVELL, Ernest Binfield. Reading, Berkshire 16.9.1861 — Oxford 20.12.1935 (Wiki 31.12.1834). British Art Historian of India. In 1885-1906 in Indian Educational Service. Son of ...

  • HAVELOCK, Henry

    HAVELOCK, Henry. Bishopwearmouth (Sunderland), Durham 5.4.1795 — Dilkusha, Lucknow 25.11.1857. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Major-General. Son of William Havelock (1757–1837), a wealthy shipbuilder, and ...

  • HAVERS, Wilhelm

    HAVERS, Wilhelm Maria Hubert. Aachen 5.1.1879 — Vienna 2.3.1961. German IE Linguist in Austria. Son of school-teacher Johann Josef Havers (1849–1928) and Maria Agnes Spiertz ...

  • HAVET, Louis

    HAVET,  Pierre Antoine Louis. Paris 6.1.1849 — Paris 26.1.1925. French Philologist and Linguist, mainly of Latin, but also IE (including Sanskrit). Professor in Paris. Son of Ernest Havet (1813–1889), Professor ...

  • HAWKES, Henry Philip

    HAWKES, Henry Philip. 1834 — St.Ives, Cornwall 1900. British Colonial Officer in India. From 1850 Cadet in Madras Army, 1855 Lieutenant. Colonel (1886) and finally 1894 ...

  • HAWKINS, William

    HAWKINS, William (Hawkyns). 15?? — autumn 1613. British Traveller. Of unknown origin, probably not the same as W. Hawkins, the nephew of Sir John ...

  • HAY, John

    HAY, John. Stuartfield near Aberdeen 23.4.1812 — Madras 28.10.1891. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Patrick Hay, educated at Aberdeen University, M.A. 1833. Ordained ...

  • HAY, Stephen N.

    HAY, Stephen Northup. Philadelphia 4.10.1925 — Santa Barbara 25.3.2001. U.S. Historian. Son of Edward Northup Hay (1891–1958) and Doris Mabel Drain. Educated at Deep Springs and Haverford Colleges, 1942-1944. ...

  • HAY, William Edmund

    HAY, William Edmund. near Bath 31.1.1805 — Croydon, London 12.12.1879. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Major. Born in a gentry family, son of Major James ...

  • HAYDEN, Henry Hubert

    HAYDEN, Henry Hubert. Londonderry 25.7.1869 — Finsteraarhorn, Switzerland 12.8.1923 (official date 28.8. when his body was found). Sir. British Geologist in India. Educated at Hilton College in ...

  • HEAD, Barclay V.

    HEAD, Barclay Vincent. Ipswich, Suffolk 2.1.1844 — London 12.6.1914. British Numismatist. Son of John Head and Elizabeth Bailey, a quaker ...

  • HEARN, Gordon Risley

    HEARN, Gordon Risley. Madras 7.9.1871 — Brighton, Sussex 7.6.1953. Sir. British Colonial Officer (Engineer) in India. Colonel. Son of Charles Shuckburgh Hearn (1829–1884) and Margaret Miller ...

  • HEBER, Reginald

    HEBER, Reginald. Malpas, Cheshire 21.4.1783 — Trichinopoly (Tiruchirappalli) 3.4.1826. Right Rev. British Bishop and Traveller in India. Son of Rev. Reginald Heber (d. 1804) and Mary ...

  • HECQUET, Émile

    HECQUET, Émile. Karikal 23.10.1832 — 7.7.1897. French Colonial Officer in South India. Son of Émile Hecquet and Adélaïde Baude de Bunnetat. He served as ...

  • HEDBERG, Enoch

    HEDBERG, Samuel Enoch (Enok). Bellö near Jönköping 19.9.1871 — Lund 17.4.1945 (1947?). Rev. Swedish Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Fredrik Olofsson ...

  • HEDIN, Sven

    HEDIN, Sven Anders. Stockholm 19.2.1865 — Stockholm 26.11.1952. Swedish Explorer and Central Asian Scholar. Made several journeys of exploration to Iran, Central Asia and ...

  • HEDSTRÖM, Oskar Fritiof

    HEDSTRÖM, Oskar Fritiof (Frithiof). Tingstäde, Gotland 10.7.1846 — Stockholm 4.3.1925. Swedish Schoolteacher and Student of Philology. Son of Captain Claës Hedström (1794–1870) and Emilia ...

  • HEEREN, Arnold Hermann Ludwig

    HEEREN, Arnold Hermann Ludwig. Arbergen near Bremen 25.10.1760 — Göttingen 6.3.1842. German Historian and Classical Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Heinrich Ehrhard Heeren (1728–1811), a ...

  • HEGEL, Friedrich

    HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Stuttgart 27.8.1770 — Berlin 14.11.1831. Famous German Philosopher. Professor in Berlin. Son of Georg Ludwig Hegel (1733–1799), a Pietist official (Rentkammersekretär), and ...

  • HEIDRICH, Joachim
    HEIDRICH, Joachim. 13.7.1930 — Berlin 8.7.2004. German (East) Scholar of Modern India. Matriculated 1948. Studied Indology and Ethnology Berlin. Ph.D. 1958 Berlin (under Ruben). In ...
  • HEILER, Friedrich

    HEILER, Johann Friedrich. Munich 30.1.1892 — Munich 28.4.1967 (N.D.B., Wikipedia has 18.4.). German Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Marburg. Born in a Catholic family, son of ...

  • HEILMAN, Luigi

    HEILMAN, Luigi. Portalbera, Pavia 21.8.1911 — Bologna 9.10.1988. Italian Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Bologna. Studies at Padova (i.al. under Suali). In 1934-37 Assistant at Catholic ...

  • HEIMANN, Betty

    HEIMANN, Betty. Wandsbeck bei Hamburg 29.3.1888 — Sirmione at the Lake Garda 19.5.1961. German Indologist in the U.K. and Sri Lanka. British citizen 1939. Daughter of ...

  • HEINE-GELDERN, Robert

    HEINE-GELDERN, Robert (Freiherr von). Grub, Niederösterreich 16.7.1885 — Vienna 25.5.1968. Austrian Anthropologist. Professor in Vienna. Born in a rich Jewish family, grand-nephew of poet Heinrich Heine. ...

  • HEINZ, Adam

    HEINZ, Adam. Cracow 20.11.1914 — Cracow 1.6.1984. Polish IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Cracow. After school in Cracow in 1934-46 studies of classics and IE ...

  • HEISSIG, Walter
    HEISSIG, Walter (Walther). Vienna 5.12.1913 — Rheinböllen 5.9.2005. Austrian Mongolian Scholar in Germany. Profes­sor in Bonn. Studied Mongolian in the 1930s  ar Vienna and Berlin. Joined SA ...
  • HELD, Fritz

    HELD, Fritz. Sindelfingen, Württemberg 25.5.1920 — Stuttgart 1.7.1992. German Physician (neurologist and children psychiatrist). After school in Stuttgart began medicine studies at Tübingen, soon ...

  • HELD, Gerrit Jan

    HELD, Gerrit Jan. Kampen (Overijssel) 1.7.1906 — Jakarta 28.9.1955. Dutch Anthropologist in Indonesia. Son of Andries Held (d. 1908) and Hermina Rozenberg. After gymnasium in ...

  • HELLER, Louis G.

    HELLER, Louis George. New York City 24.6.1927 — Teaneck, NJ 2.8.1997. U.S. Linguist. The only son of Benjamin Heller and Helen Edith Morse. Ph.D. Lecturer, then Professor at the ...

  • HELLER, Ludwig

    HELLER, Ludwig. Travemünde 18.8.1866 — Greifswald 21.8.1945. German Indologist. Professor in Greifswald. Son of Ludwig Heller (1805–1878), a minister, historian Johannes Heller (1851–1880) ...

  • HELTEN, Willem Lodewijk van

    HELTEN, Willem Lodewijk van. Hedel (Gelderland) 30.8.1849 — ’s-Gravenhage 16.3.1917. Dutch Linguist. Son of Willem Lodewijk Martinus van Helten and Johanna Louise ...

  • HELVERT, Lucas Frans van

    HELVERT, Lucas Frans van (Franciscus van Helvert). Dinther, North Brabant 5.5.1910 — Veghel, North Brabant 29.10.1999. Father. Dutch Catholic (Premonstratensian/Norbertine) missionary in India. Son of Johannes van Helvert (1870–1929) ...

  • HENCKEN, Hugh

    HENCKEN, Hugh O’Neill. New York City 8.1.1902 — Cape Cod 31.8.1981.U.S. Archaeologist. Born to an Irish American family, son of Albert Charles Hencken (1871–1951) and Mary Creighton O’Neill (1874–1929). Studies ...

  • HENDERSON, John Robertson

    HENDERSON, John Robertson. Melrose, Roxburghshire 21.5.1863 — Edinburgh 26.10.1925. British (Scottish) Zoologist in India. Son of Edward Henderson (1825–1894), a revenue official, ...

  • HENDERSON, Vincent C.

    HENDERSON, Vincent Carlile. 1873 — Shanghai 9.1.1910. British (Irish) Official in China. For a while in London and Vancouver. Joined the Imperial Chinese Customs ...

  • HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein

    HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein. 21.4.1847 — London 2.2.1917. British Physician in India. Colonel. Educated privately and at St.Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. Joined Indian Medical service in 1869 ...

  • HENDRIKSEN, Hans

    HENDRIKSEN, Hans Frederik. Jutland 6.6.1913 — 1989. Danish Indologist. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of Kai Hendriksen (1884–1961), ...

  • HENNING, Walter Bruno

    HENNING, Walter Bruno. Raging, Ostpreussen (now Neman in Russia) 26.8.1908 — Berkeley, Calif. 8.1.1967. German Iranian Scholar in the U.K. ...

  • HENNINGS, August Adolph Friedrich
    HENNINGS, August Adolph Friedrich. Pinneberg, Holstein 19.7.1746 — Rantzau, Holstein 17.5.1826. German-Danish politician, publicist and writer. Son of  Staaatsrat Martin Nicolai Hennings. After gymnasium in Altona studied ...
  • HENRIQUES, Henrique

    HENRIQUES, Henrique (-quez, Anrique Anriquez, Aṇṭiṟīkku Aṭikaḷār). Vila Viçosa, Evora 1520 — Punnaikkayal, dt. Tōttukkuṭi 6.2.1600. S.J. Portuguese Priest and Missionary, in India 1546-1600. Born in ...

  • HENRY, Victor

    HENRY, Victor. Colmar, Alsace 17.8.1850 — Paris 6.2.1907. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of Édouard Henry (d. 1856), teacher at Colmar collège, and Joséphine Grante, ...

  • HENSELER, Éric de

    HENSELER, Eugène Éric de. Fribourg 1889 — Geneva 1960. Swiss Teacher and Former Student of Indian Religion, a Theosophist. Born in a Swiss family originating from ...

  • HENZI, Rudolf

    HENZI, Samuel Gottlieb Rudolf. Bern 7.9.1794 — Dorpat (Tartu) 1./13.2.1829. Swiss Oriental Scholar and Theologian in Estonia. Professor in Dorpat. Son ...

  • HERAS, Henry

    HERAS, Henry (born Enrique/Enric Heras i Sicars). Canet d’Adri near Girona, Catalonia (Catalonian Viquipedia Barcelona) 11.9.1888 — Bombay 14.12.1955. S. ...

  • HERBERICH, Gustav

    HERBERICH, Gustav. 18?? — 1???. German Teacher and Former Student of Indology. A student of Jolly at Würzburg, Ph.D. there 1893. He was then Realschulassistent in ...

  • HERBERT, Jean

    HERBERT, Jean Daniel Fernand. Paris 27.6.1897 — Geneva 21.8.1980. French Scholar of Religion. Son of a Catholic father (a teacher of English) and Protestant mother. ...

  • HERBERT, Thomas

    HERBERT, Thomas. York 1606 — York 1.3.1682. Sir, First Baronet. British Traveller in Persia and India. Son of Christopher Herbert, a merchant, and Jane Akroyd, of ...

  • HERBIG, Gustav

    HERBIG, Gustav. Kaiserslautern 3.6.1868 — Munich 1.10.1925. German IE Linguist and Etruscologist. Professor in Rostock and Munich. Son of Johann Heinrich Herbig (1839–1892), a tradesman, and ...

  • HERDER, Johann Gottfried

    HERDER, Johann Gottfried (1802 von). Mohrungen, Ostpreussen (now Morąg in Poland) 25.8.1744 — Weimar 18.12.1803. Famous German Author, Philosopher and Scholar. Son of Gottfried ...

  • HERKLOTS, Gerhard Andreas

    HERKLOTS, Gerhard Andreas. Chinsura, West Bengal 28.2.1798 (hardly 1790) — Walajabad, Tamil Nadu 8.1.1834. Dutch Physician in British Service in India. Born in the Dutch colony ...

  • HERMANN, Eduard

    HERMANN, Eduard. Coburg 19.12.1869 — Göttingen 14.2.1950. German IE scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Ernst Hermann (1828–1894), a Rentkommissar, and Augusta Marie Conrad. Studied classical ...

  • HERMANNS, Matthias

    HERMANNS, Matthias. Köln-Niehl 31.5.1899 — St.Augustin bei Bonn 5.1.1972. Father, S.V.D. German Missionary, Ethnologist and Tibetan Scholar. Roman Catholic priest. Educated in a Catholic gymnasium in ...

  • HERMES, Gertrud

    HERMES, Gertrud Antonie. Berlin 23.9.1872 — Berlin 26.1.1942. German Teacher and Leftist Pedagog. Daughter of Oberkonsistorialrat Ottomar Hermes (1826–1893). In 1900-08 taught at a girls’ school in Berlin. After ...

  • HÉROLD, A.-Ferdinand

    HÉROLD, André-Jules-Ferdinand. Paris 24.2.1865 — Lapras (St.Basile, Ardèche) 23.10.1940. French Poet interested in Sanskrit. Son of the lawyer and politician Ferdinand Hérold (1828–1882) and ...

  • HEROLD, Erich

    HEROLD, Erich. Prague 3.1.1928 — Prague 7.12.1988. Czechoslovakian Ethnologist and Indologist. Museum Director in Prague. From 1947 studies of Indology at Prague (under Friš and Lesný), Ph.D. ...

  • HERRMANN, Albert

    HERRMANN, Albert Ludwig. Hannover 20.1.1886 — Pilsen (Plzeň in Czech) 19.4.1945. German Scholar of Historical Geography. Son of school director Konrad Herrmann (1844–1910) and ...

  • HERSCHEL, William

    HERSCHEL, William James. Slough, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire) 9.1.1833 — Hawkhurst, Kent 24.10.1917. Sir, 2nd Bart. British Civil Servant in India. Son of the famous astronomer John ...

  • HERSHMAN, Paul

    HERSHMAN, Paul. Rochford, Cambridgeshire 17.3.1950 — Southend, Essex 8.1.1976, when 25. British Anthropologist. Fieldwork in the Punjab, 1972-73. The book is based on his unfinished Ph.D. diss. for the ...

  • HERTEL, Johannes

    HERTEL, Johannes. Zwickau 13.3.1872 — Leipzig 27.10.1955. German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. Son of Franz Hertel and his wife Adolfine. From 1891 Studies at Leipzig, of ...

  • HERTZ, Henry Felix

    HERTZ, Henry Felix. 14.5.1863 — Burma 6.11.1932. British Civil Servant in Burma. Son of Viggo Hertz (1827–1886) and Annie Fairweather (d. 1876), grandson of Bishop ...

  • HERVÉ, Camille

    HERVÉ, Camille. 18?? — Paris 30.8.1878. French. As “indianiste à Paris” participated in the first Conference of Orientalists in 1873. From 1867 member of Société de linguistique.

    Publications: ??.

  • HERZFELD, Ernst E.

    HERZFELD, Ernst Emil. Celle, Lower Saxony 23.7.1879 — Basel 21.1.1948. German Archaeologist, later in the U.S.A. Professor in Berlin and ...

  • HESSLER, Franz

    HESSLER, Franz. Krombach bei Aschaffenburg 15.10.1799 (Wikipedia: 13.3.1798) — Munich 17.6.1890 . German Physician and Indologist in Bavaria. Son of a farmer, educated in Aschaffenburg. Began ...

  • HETAGUROV, Lev Aleksandrovič

    HETAGUROV, Lev Aleksandrovič. Cmi Terskoj obl., Severnaja-Osetija (North Ossetia) 2.(15.)12. 1901 — Saratov 12.3.1942. Russian Iranian Scholar. Son of a physician. Graduated 1930 from Faculty of Languages ...

  • HETÉNYI, Ernő

    HETÉNYI-HEIDELBERG, Ernő (Ernest H., Láma Dharmakírti Padmavadzsra). Budapest 13.2.1912 — Budapest 17.9.1999. Hungarian Bauddha and Tibetologist. Son of the operetta ...

  • HEUMAN, Ernst

    HEUMAN, Ernst Otto August. Halmstad 9.7.1858 — Trichinopoly (Tiruchirappalli) 25.8.1926. Swedish Missionary and Scholar of Religion and Languages in India. Son of alderman Anders ...

  • HEVESY, Vilmos

    HEVESY, Vilmos (Wilhelm von Hevesy, orig. W. Bischitz). 1877 — 1945. Hungarian Electric Engineer interested in Linguistics. Son of Ludwig (Lajos) David Bischitz (1851–1920), ...

  • HEWITT, J. Francis

    HEWITT, James Francis Katharinus. Desertlyn, co. Londonderry 21.6.1835 — Wheatley, Oxfordshire 14.3.1908. British Civil Servant in India, a Scholar of ...

  • HEYDE, Wilhelm

    HEYDE, August Wilhelm (born A. W. Heide). Herrnhut 1825 — Herrnhut 27.8.1907. Rev. German Missionary. Spent 50 years in Ladakh as Moravian Missionary, in ...

  • HEYDT, Eduard von der

    HEYDT, Eduard von der (Edward van der Heydt), Freiherr. Elberfeld near Wuppertal 26.9.1882 — Ascona, Ticino 3.4.1964. German-Swiss Banker and Art Collector. Son of banker August von der Heydt and ...

  • HEYMANN, Wilhelm

    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. ...

  • HIERSCHE, Rolf

    HIERSCHE, Rolf. Sömmerda, Thüringen 28.7.1924 — Giessen 24.7.1996. German IE Linguist, Greek and Sanskrit Scholar. Professor in Giessen. Matriculated 1942. Studies of classical philology, Indology ...

  • HIGGINS, Ellen

    HIGGINS, Ellen Charlotte. Brixton, London 14.8.1871 — Edinburgh 13.12.1951. Miss. Britishwoman interested in Pāli ...

  • HILDBURGH, Walter Leo

    HILDBURGH, Walter Leo. New York 30.3.1876 — London 25.11.1955. U.S. Art Collector and Traveller. Born in a wealthy immigrant family, son of Henry Hildburgh and Lillie Cornelia Rosenblatt. Ph.D. ...

  • HILDEBRAND, Hans

    HILDEBRAND, Hans Olof. Stockholm 5.4.1842 — Stockholm 2.2.1913. Swedish Archaeologist, one of the founders of modern Swedish Archaeology. Son of Bror Emil Hildebrand (1806–1884) ...

  • HILFERDING, A. F.

    HILFERDING, A. F. —> GIL’FERDING, A. F.

  • HILGENBERG, Luise

    HILGENBERG, Luise. Essen 2.1.1886 — 1.2.1942. German Physician and Indologist. Dr.med. 1922 Bonn, Dr. phil. 1933 Bonn (under Kirfel). Practising physician in Bonn.

    HILKA, Alfons

    HILKA, Alfons. Walzen, Oberschlesien (Walce in Poland) 30.7.1877 — Göttingen 21.6.1939. German Indologist and Scholar of Romance Languages. Professor in Göttingen. Son of the Catholic master ...

  • HILL, Samuel Alexander

    HILL, Samuel Alexander. Ballyboley near Belfast 10.10.1851 — Allahabad 23.9.1890. British Teacher and Meteorologist in India. Son of farmer John Beggs Hill (1819–1897) and Elizabeth Clements, ...

  • HILL, Samuel Charles

    HILL, Samuel Charles. Berhampore, West Bengal 16.7.1857 — Torquay, Devon 6.5.1926. British Historian of India. Son of Rev. Samuel John Hill (1825–1891), L.M.S. missionary in India ...

  • HILL, W. Douglas P.

    HILL, William Douglas Penneck. Kensington, London 1884 — Poole, Dorset 9.4.1962. British Indologist. Son of Arthur James Hill and Fanny Catheside Hingston. M.A. Worked as ...

  • HILL, William Charles Osman

    HILL, William Charles Osman. 13.7.1901 — 25.1.1975. British Anatomist, Primatologist and Physical Anthropologist. Son of James Osman Hill and Fanny Martin. Educated in Birmingham, studies at ...

  • HILLEBRANDT, Alfred

    HILLEBRANDT, Alfred. Großnädlitz bei Breslau (now Nadolice Wielkie in Poland) 15.3.1853 — Deutsch-Lissa bei Breslau (now Wrocław-Leśnica) 18.10.1927. German Indologist (Vedic Scholar). Professor at Breslau. Son ...

  • HILLER, Hiram M., Jr.
    HILLER, Hiram Milliken, Jr. near Kahoka, Clark county, Missouri 8.3.1867 —  Bellefonte, PA 8.8.1921. U.S. Physician, Explorer, and Ethnographer. Son of Colonel Hiram Milliken Hiller, Sr. (1834–1895) ...
  • HILMARSSON, Jörundur

    HILMARSSON, Jörundur Garðar. Reykjavík 15.3.1946 — Reykjavík 13.8. 1992. Icelandic IE Linguist and Tocharian Scholar. Son of a lawyer, educated ...

  • HILPERT, Nelly

    HILPERT, Nelly. 18?? — 19??.Mrs. German, in 1924/26 listed as living in Breslau, in 1929 left the society. Called doctor, in 1929 Professor (by A. Nehring ...

  • HINCKS, Edward

    HINCKS, Edward. Cork 19.8.1792 — Killyleagh, county Down 3.12.1866. Rev. Anglo-Irish Priest and Oriental Scholar. The eldest son of the Presbyterian

  • HINLOOPEN LABBERTON, Dirk van

    HINLOOPEN LABBERTON, Dirk van. Doesburg, Gelderland 24.9.1874 — Ojai, Calif. 3.9.1961. Dutch Theosophist interested in Sanskrit, ...

  • HINZ, Walther

    HINZ, Walther. Stuttgart 19.11.1906 — Göttingen 12.4.1992. German Oriental and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of a merchant, lost early his parents. In 1926-30 studied ...

  • HIRSH, Marilyn

    HIRSH, Marilyn. Chicago 1.1.1944 — New York City 17.10.1988. U.S. Art Historian, Illustrator and Author. Born in a Jewish family, her father owned a meat market, daughter of Eugene ...

  • HIRSZBANT (Hirschband), B. Abraham

    HIRSZBANT (Hirschband), B. Abraham. 18?? — 19??. Hungarian (?) Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1887 Vienna.

  • HIRT, Herman(n)

    HIRT, Herman(n) Alfred. Magdeburg 19.12.1865 — Giessen 12/20.9.1936. German IE scholar. Professor in Giessen. Son of the master carpenter Karl Heinrich Hirt (1832–1891) and ...

  • HIRTH, Friedrich

    HIRTH, Friedrich. Gräfentonna, Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha 16.4.1845 — Munich 9.1.1927. German Sinologist in the U.S.A. Spent 25 years in China, then Professor in New York. Son of Georg ...

  • HIRZEL, Arnold

    HIRZEL(-HENCKELL), Paul Arnold. Lenzurg, Canton Aargau 5.12.1861 — 8.1.1931. Swiss Indologist. Teacher in Aarau, grandson of —> Bernhard Hirzel (1807–1847). Son of Paul Arnold Hirzel (1834–1887), ...

  • HIRZEL, Bernhard

    HIRZEL, Bernhard. Enge near Zürich 12.8.1807 — Paris 6.6.1847. Swiss Indologist, Priest and Politician. Priest and Docent in Zürich. Son of Johannes Hirzel (1776–1842), a wealthy ...

  • HISLOP, Stephen

    HISLOP, Stephen. Duns, Berwickshire 8.9.1817 — Bori River, Takalghat, Maharashtra 4.9.1863. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Stephen Hislop (1772–1837), a mason and builder, ...

  • HITCHCOCK, John

    HITCHCOCK, John Thayer. Springfield, MA 29.6.1917 — Stoughton, Wisconsin 16.1.2001. U.S. Anthropologist. Professor in Madison. Son of Arthur Cornwall Hitchcock (1871–1949) and Ruth Harriet Thayer. B.A. 1939 Amherst College. M.A. ...

  • HITZ, Luise

    HITZ, Sophie Luise. Munich 13.1.1835 — Munich 1.5.1906. German Schoolteacher and Poet interested in Sanskrit Literature. Daughter of Hans Conrad Hitz (1798–1866), a painter, and Luise ...

  • HJELMSLEV, Louis

    HJELMSLEV, Louis Trolle. Copenhagen 3.10.1899 — Copenhagen 30.5.1965. Danish Linguist (Germanist and General Linguist). Son of the mathematician Johannes Hjelmslev (1873–1950) and Agnes Elisabeth ...

  • HJELT, Frans Wilhelm Gustaf

    HJELT, Frans Wilhelm Gustaf. Turku 22.5.1819 — Turku 26.9.1889. Finnish Priest and Classical Scholar. Son of the printing manager and publisher Christian Ludvig Hjelt (1786-1849) ...

  • HOCART, Arthur Maurice

    HOCART, Arthur Maurice. Etterbeek near Brussels, Belgium 26.4.1883 — Cairo 9.3.1939. British scholar of Sri Lankan Archaeology and Ethnology. Son of James Hocart, a Protestan missionary ...

  • HODGES, William

    HODGES, William. London 26.10.1744 — Brixham, Devon 6.3.1797. British Artist in India. “Son of a smith, learnt to draw, exhibited at the Society of Artists, became ...

  • HODGSON, Brian Houghton

    HODGSON, Brian Houghton. Lower Beech near Macclesfield, Cheshire 1.2.1800 (or 1801?) — London 23.5.1894. British Civil Servant, Diplomat and Indologist in India and Nepal (1818-44 & ...

  • HODSON, Thomas

    HODSON, Thomas. North Scarle, Lincolnshire 9.2.1804 — 9.9.1882 (or 9.9.1878). British Wesleyan Missionary in India, a noted Kannaḍa Scholar. Worked nearly a decade as preacher and ...

  • HODSON, Thomas Callan

    HODSON, Thomas Callan. Hornsey, Middlesex 12.12.1871 — Tisbury, Wiltshire 25.1.1953. British Anthropologist. Professor in Cambridge. Son ...

  • HOECK, Karl Friedrich Christian
    HOECK, Karl Friedrich Christian. Oelber am Weißen Wege, Wolfenbüttel 13.5.1794 — Göttingen 13.1.1877. German Classical Philologist and Historian. After gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel studied 2012-16 Classics at Göttingen (under Heeren ...
  • HOEFER, Albert

    HOEFER, Karl Gustav Albert. Greifswald 2.10.1812 — Greifswald 9.1.1883. German Indologist. Professor in Greifswald. Son of Carl Andreas Hoefer (1781–1853), a judge, and Christiane Sophie Waldeck ...

  • HOEGELSBERGER, Karl

    HOEGELSBERGER, Karl. 18?? — 19??. Austrian Student of Iranian (?). Ph.D. 1908 Vienna.

    Publications: Diss. Sprachvergleichende Studien aus dem Persischen. Vienna 1908.

    Sources: ...

  • HOEK, Albertus (Bert) Wilhelmus van den

    HOEK, Albertus(Bert) Wilhelmus van den. Apeldoorn, Gelderland 2.9.1951 — Mumbai 1.12.2001. Dutch Anthropologist. After school in Utrecht studied Anthropology and Philosophy at Amsterdam, then at Leiden, where B.A. 1970 and ...

  • HOENIGSWALD, Henry M.
    HOENIGSWALD, Henry Max (born Heinrich Max Franz Hönigswald). Breslau 17.4.1915 — Haverford, PA 16.6.2003. U.S. (German-born) Linguist (IE and Hindi). Professor ...
  • HOENS, Dirk Jan
    HOENS, Dirk Jan. Oldenzaal 11.8.1920 — 23.2.2003. Dutch scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Utrecht. After gymnasium in Leiden and the Hague, from 1939 studies of Indology ...
  • HOERNLE, A. F. Rudolf

    HOERNLE, Augustus Frederick Rudolf. Sikandra near Agra 19.10.1841 — Oxford 12.11.1918. British (of German background) Teacher and Indologist in India. Son of the missionary Christian Theophilus ...

  • HOEY, William

    HOEY, William. 1849 — 1919. British (Irish?) Civil Servant in India, interested in History, Archaeology and Numismatics. Son of George William Hoey and Eliza Good. Studies ...

  • HOFFMANN-KUTSCHKE, Arthur

    HOFFMANN-KUTSCHKE, Arthur (also Artur). Hansdorf, Kreis Sagan, Silesia (now Poland) 24.6.1882 — after 1947. German Iranian Scholar. Son of railway officer. Studies of classics, history ...

  • HOFFMANN, Andreas Gottlieb

    HOFFMANN, Andreas Gottlieb. Welbsleben, Grafschaft Mansfeld (Sachsen-Anhalt) 13.4.1796 — Jena 16.3.1864. German Orientalist and Theologian (a ...

  • HOFFMANN, Ernst Lothar (Lama Anagarika Govinda)

    HOFFMANN, Ernst Lothar (Lama Anagarika B. Govinda). Waldheim, Sachsen 14.1.1898 — Mill Valley, California 14.1.1985. German Bauddha. Son of a German father, the owner of ...

  • HOFFMANN, Helmut

    HOFFMANN, Helmut. Flensburg 24.8.1912 — Holzkirchen (Oberbayern) 8.10.1992. German Indologist and Tibetologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Munich and Bloomington. Son of Erich Hoffmann, a ...

  • HOFFMANN, Johann Christian

    HOFFMANN, Johann Christian. Bischhausen bei Eschwege, Hessen 1651 — Heckershausen bei Kassel 1682. German Priest and Traveller in India. Studied theology. In his voyage 1671-76 he ...

  • HOFFMANN, John-Baptist (Johann Baptist)

    HOFFMANN, John-Baptist (Johann Baptist). Wallendorf, Eifel 21.6.1857 — 19.11.1928. S.J. German Missionary in Chota Nagpur, India. Born in Germany, son of Gerhard Hoffmann and ...

  • HOFFMANN, Karl

    HOFFMANN, Karl. Hof am Regen, Oberpfalz (Bavaria) 26.2.1915 — Erlangen 21.5.1996. German Indo-Iranian and IE Linguist. Professor in Erlangen. Son of a railway officer. After school ...

  • HOFFMANN, Otto

    HOFFMANN, Otto. Hannover 9.2.1865 — Münster 6.6.1940. German IE and Greek Linguist. Professor in Münster. Son of Otto Heinrich Karl Hoffmann (1837–1879), a Prussian civil servant, ...

  • HOFFMANN, Paul Theodor

    HOFFMANN, Paul Theodor. Putlitz, Kr. Prignitz, Brandenburg 26.1.1891 — Hamburg 5.7.1952. German Student of Indology, then Publisher, Archivist and Theatre Scholar. Studies ...

  • HOFFMEISTER, Werner

    HOFFMEISTER, Werner Friedrich. Braunschweig14.3.1819 — near Firozshah, Punjab 21.12.1845. German Physician, Zoologist and Botanist. Son of a priest, in 1827 the family moved to Wolfenbüttel. Lost his parents in ...

  • HOFINGER, Marcel

    HOFINGER, Marcel François Joseph Julien. Liège-Angleur 29.12.1913 — Liège 10.1.1997. Abbé. Belgian Indologist, Buddhist and Classical Scholar. Professor in Louvain-la-Neuve. ...

  • HOFMANN, Erich

    HOFMANN, Erich. Mühlhausen, Thüringen 4.3.1895 — Kiel 7.11.1982. German IE Linguist. Professor in Kiel. Son of a school director, N. N. Hofmann, educated in Görlitz and ...

  • HOFMANN, Konrad

    HOFMANN, Alberich Konrad. Kloster Banz near Bamberg, Oberfranken 14.11.1819 — Waging am See, Bavaria 30.9.1890. German Linguist. Born in a monastery where his father was lay ...

  • HOGARTH, Edward Lucas

    HOGARTH, Edward Lucas. Kirk Bramwith, Yorkshire 1841 — Maidenhead, Berkshire 13.11.1930. British Teacher and Scholar in India. Son of Henry Hogarth and Isabella Lucas. Studies from ...

  • HOHENBERGER, Adam

    HOHENBERGER, Adam. Grubenberg, Oberfranken 4.7.1888 — 1966. German Indologist. Lutheran Priest in Bavaria. Educated in Leipzig, in 1913-18 studies at Leipzig, of Protestant ...

  • HOISINGTON, Henry Richard

    HOISINGTON, Henry Richard. Vergennes, Vermont 23.8.1801 — Centerbrook, CT 6.5.1858. U.S. Missionary and Tamil Scholar in South Asia. Son of Job Hoisington (1762–1813), a carpenter and ...

  • HOLBROOKE, George O.

    HOLBROOKE, George Otis. 20.8.1850 — 1921. U.S. Methodist Missionary in South India. Son of John George Holbrooke (1814–1897) and Marian Marshall. Educated in Boston. ...

  • HOLDICH, Thomas H.

    HOLDICH, Thomas Hungerford. Dingley, Northamptonshire 13.2.1843 — Merrow, Surrey 2.11.1929. Sir. British Colonial Engineer Officer and Geographer in India. Son of Rev. Thomas Peach ...

  • HOLLAND, Thomas Henry

    HOLLAND, Thomas Henry. Helston, Cornwall 22.11.1868 — Carshalton, Surrey 15.5.1947. Sir. British Geologist in India. Son of John Holland and Grace Treloar Roberts. Parents moved to Canada, but he ...

  • HOLLER, Helmuth P.

    HOLLER, Helmuth Peter. Holstein 8.6.1871 — 19??. Rev. U.S. (German-born) Missionary in India. Studies at Berlin and Kiel. Ph.D. In ...

  • HOLLINGBERY, William
    HOLLINGBERY, William. 1767? — 1809. British Civil Servant in India. Served in Hyderabad residence, 1799-1801 participated in Malcolm’s embassy to Persia.
    Publications: A History of His ...
  • HOLLINGS, William

    HOLLINGS, William Charles. Calcutta 27.3.1810 — near Cawnpore (Kanpur) 1857. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of merchant William Charles Hollings (1770–1815), lost early his father ...

  • HOLMBOE, Christopher Andreas

    HOLMBOE, Christopher Andreas. Vang/Valdres, Oppland 19.3.1796 — Christiania (Oslo) 2.4.1882. Norwegian Orientalist and Numismatician. Professor in Christiania. Son of Rev. Jens Holmboe (1746–1822) and Cathrine Holst. ...

  • HOLMER, Nils M.

    HOLMER, Nils Magnus. Göteborg 5.2.1904 — Vollsjö near Lund 10.6.1994. Swedish Linguist. Son of railway engineer Lars Magnus Holmer and elementary school teacher Anna Vilhelmina Lindström. Grew up in ...

  • HOLROYD, W. R. M.

    HOLROYD, William Rice Morland. Wimbledon, London 28.10.1835 — Lyndhurst, Hampshire 3.9.1913. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of lawyer Edward ...

  • HÖLTY, Arnold
    HÖLTY, Arnold Karl Konrad. Jembke, dt. Gifhorn, Niedersachsen 11.8.1800 — 2.9.1857. German Theologian. Son of a priest. Studies ar Göttingen. From 1826 Lutheran Pastor in ...
  • HOLTZMANN, Adolf (junior)

    HOLTZMANN, Adolf (der jüngere). Karlsruhe 20.12.1838 — Freiburg i. B. 17.2.1914. German Indologist. Professor in Freiburg i. Br. Nephew of —> Adolf HOLTZMANN, Adolf H. (senior)

    HOLTZMANN, Adolf Karl Wilhelm (der ältere). Karlsruhe 2.5.1810 — Heidelberg 3.7.1870. German Indologist and Germanist. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of Johann Michael Holtzmann (1774–1820), a teacher ...

  • HOLWELL, John Zephaniah

    HOLWELL, John Zephaniah. Dublin 17.9.1711 — Pinner near London 5.11.1798. British Physician in India. Son of Zephaniah Holwell (d. 1729), a timber merchant, and Sarah Bott. ...

  • HOMBURGER, Lilias

    HOMBURGER, Lilias. U.K. 1880 — 1969. Mlle. French Linguist, with mixed German-English-French background. Began her career as missionary. Studied linguistics (Meillet), Dravidian ...

  • HOME, Robert

    HOME, Robert. Kingston upon Hull 6.8.1752 — Kanpur 1834. British Painter in India. Son of Robert Boyne Home, an army surgeon, and Mary Hutchinson. Parents planned ...

  • HOMJAKOV, Aleksej Stepanovič

    HOMJAKOV, Aleksej Stepanovič. Moscow 13./1.5.1804 — Moscow (or Rjazan?) 5.10./23.9.1860. Russian Slavophil author interested in Sanskrit. Son of Stepan Aleksandrovič Homjakov and Mar’ja Kireevskaja. Studied ...

  • HONIGBERGER, Martin

    HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin. Kronstadt (now Braşov) 10.3.1795 — Kronstadt (Braşov) 18.12.1869. Transylvanian Traveller and Self-Made Physician in India. Born in a Saxonian Jewish family in Transylvania, ...

  • HONIGMAN, John J.

    HONIGMAN, John Joseph. Bronx, New York 7.6.1914 — 4.8.1977. U.S. Anthropologist. Associate Professor (1951). Probably at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Married, two children

    Publications: “Education and Career Specialization ...

  • HONKO, Lauri

    HONKO, Lauri Olavi. Hanko 6.3.1932 — Turku 15.7.2002. Finnish Folklorists. Professor in Turku. Son of Svante Honko and Helmi Sofia Starck. Studies ...

  • HOOGT, Jacobus Marinus van der

    HOOGT, Jacobus Marinus van der. Amsterdam 1874? — Arnhem 1941. Dutch Teacher and former Student of Indology. Ph.D. c. 1929 Amsterdam (under Faddegon). Died as ...

  • HOOKER, Joseph Dalton

    HOOKER, Joseph Dalton. Halesworth, Suffolk 30.6.1817 — Sunningdale, Berkshire 10.12.1911. Sir. British Physician and Botanist in India. Son of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), also a ...

  • HOOLE, Elijah

    HOOLE, Elijah. Manchester 1798 — London 17.6.1872. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Holland Hoole, a shoemaker, educated at Manchester. In 1813 left school to ...

  • HOOPER, J. S. M.

    HOOPER, John Stirling Morley. Stirling, Scotland 12.4.1882 — Stratford-upon-Avon 2.5.1974. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in India. Son of John Henry Hooper. Studies at Oxford (Corpus Christi College, B.A. ...

  • HOOYKAAS, Christiaan

    HOOYKAAS, Christiaan. Amersfoort 26.12.1902 — ’s-Gravenhage 13.8.1979. Dutch Sanskrit and Indonesian Scholar. Son of a vicar, Isaäc Hooykaas (1866–1944) and Eva Maria Faber. From 1921 studies ...

  • HOPE, Theodore C.

    HOPE, Theodore Cracraft. London 9.12.1831 — London 4.7.1915. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. The only child of James Hope (1801–1841), a noted physician, and Anne ...

  • HOPKINS, E. Washburn

    HOPKINS, Edward Washburn. Northampton, MA 8.9.1857 — Madison, CT 16.7.1932. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New Haven. Born in an old New English priestly and scholarly family, ...

  • HOPKINS, Grace Sturtevant

    HOPKINS, Grace Sturtevant. 14.7.1904 — Hamden, CT 12.3.2002. U.S. Student of IE Lin­guistics. Daughter of —> Edgar H. Sturtevant (1875–1952) and Elizabeth (Bessie) Skinner. Graduated 1924 from Vassar College. ...

  • HOPPE, Max (Anagārika Dharmapāla)

    HOPPE, Max (Anagārika Dharmapāla). 24.4.1907 — 1992. German Bauddha. Son of a post master. Interrupted studies of theology, wished by his parents, and tried ...

  • HORN, Paul

    HORN, Paul. Halle 14.1.1863 — Strassburg 11.11.1908. German Iranian Scholar. Professor in Strassburg. Son of a railway officer, educated in Halle. Studies at Halle and Berlin, ...

  • HORNE, Charles

    HORNE, Charles. Nainital (Uttarkhand) 6.6.1823 — Croydon, Kent 28.5.1872. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Archaeology and Entomology. Son of James Horne and Mary Ann ...

  • HORNE, Eric Arthur

    HORNE, Eric Arthur. Clevendon, Somerset 29.11.1883 — Aligarh 7.6.1930. British Teacher in India. Educated at Mill Hill School, studies of history and economics at St.Andrews. After ...

  • HORNELL, James

    HORNELL, James. Manchester 1865 — Hastings 24.2.1949. British Zoologist and Ethnographer in South Asia. Son of a Scottish father and Lancashire mother, educated in Kirkcudbright, Scotland. Studied at University ...

  • HORNER, Isaline Blew

    HORNER, Isaline Blew. Walthamstow, Essex 30.3.1896 — London 25.4.1981. British Bauddha and Buddhologist. Born in a place now belonging to ...

  • HOROVITZ, Josef

    HOROVITZ, Josef (Chajim). Lauenburg, Pommern (Lębork in Poland) 26.7.1874 — Frankfurt 5.2.1931. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Born in a Jewish family, son of the orthodox Rabbi ...

  • HORRWITZ, Ernest Philip

    HORRWITZ, Ernest Philip. 1866 (or 1886?) — 1928?. U.S. (or British) Indologist. According to his own statement, he was Sanskrit Instructor at the City of New ...

  • HORSCH, Paul

    HORSCH, Paul. Oberegg, Canton Appenzell 9.9.1925 — Mahabalipuram, India 27.12.1971. Swiss Indologist. Professor in Zürich. Son of Otto Horsch, a chemist, educated 1932-42 at local school, ...

  • HORSLEY, Hugh

    HORSLEY, Hugh. Courtallum, dt. Tinnevelly (Tirunelveli) 11.8.1849 — 26.1.1934. Rev. British Missionary in South South Asia. Son of —> William Henry Horsley (1812–1893) and Frederica O’Connell. Studied at Cambridge, ...

  • HORSLEY, William Henry
    HORSLEY, William Henry. Teddington, Middlesex 28.10.1812 — England 8.2.1893.  British Colonial Engineer Officer. Son of of George Henry Horsley of Middlesex and Frances Elizabeth Harding. ...
  • HORST, Christopher Henry

    HORST, Christopher Henry (Christoph Heinrich). Willenburg near Schwerin 24.5.1761 — Tanjavur 10.7.1810. German Lutheran Missionary in India. Son of Anton Wilhelm Horst (1714–1789) and ...

  • HORTON-SMITH, L. Graham H.

    HORTON-SMITH, Lionel Graham Horton. 12.7.1871 — London 9.3.1953. British Lawyer interested in Linguistics. Son of Richard Horton Horton-Smith and Marilla Baily. Educated in Marlborough, ...

  • HOSTEN, Henri

    HOSTEN, Henri. Ramskapelle, West Flanders 26.3.1873 — Brussels 16.4.1935. S.J. Father. Belgian Missionary Scholar in India. After studies in Turnhout joined 1891 the Jesuit Order. Suspected ...

  • HOUGH, William

    HOUGH, William. 1789 — London 3.1.1865. British Colonial Officer in India. Came there in 1805, participated in Nepal War (1814-16), Third Maratha War (1817-18) and First ...

  • HOUGHTON, Herbert

    HOUGHTON, Herbert Pierrepont. Brooklyn, NY 22.1.1880 — Wellesley Hills, MA 11.5.1964. Rev. U.S. Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit and Linguistics. Son of Joseph ...

  • HOUSEHOLDER, Fred W.

    HOUSEHOLDER, Fred Walter (Jr.). Wichita Falls, Texas 1.2.1918 — Bloomington 4.1.1994. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Bloomington. Son of Fred W. Householder, Sr. (1884–1950) and Myrtle Brian ...

  • HOUTMAN, Cornelis de

    HOUTMAN, Cornelis de. Gouda 2.4.1565 —off Acheh 1.9.1599. Dutch Traveller in India. Son of Pieter Cornelisz de Houtman, a brewer, and Agnes Frederiksd., elder brother of ...

  • HOUTMAN, Frederick de

    HOUTMAN, Frederick de. Gouda 1571 — Alkmaar 21.10.1627. Dutch Traveller. Son of Pieter Cornelisz de Houtman, a brewer, and Agnes Frederiksd., younger brother of —> Cornelis ...

  • HOVELACQUE, Abel

    HOVELACQUE, Alexandre Abel. Paris 14.11.1843 — Paris 22.2.1896. French Iranian Scholar, Linguist and Anthropologist. Born of a family active in textile industry in Lille, son of ...

  • HOWELL, William

    HOWELL, William. Madras (?) 1.11.1790 (1789?) — Madras c. 1867. Rev. Missionary. Son of the elder William Howell (d. 1803), a soldier ...

  • HOWLEY, Thomas

    HOWLEY, Thomas. 1831 — 1906. British Teacher in India. Son of elder Thomas Howley, of Bangalore. Educated at Bishop Cowie’s Grammar School in Madras. Head-Master of Anglo-Vernaculat School in ...

  • HOWORTH, Henry H.

    HOWORTH, Henry Hoyle. Lisbon 1.7.1842 — London 15.7.1923. Sir. British Barrister, Conservative Politician and amateur Historian and Geologist. Son of ...

  • HRKAL, Eduard

    HRKAL, Eduard. 18?? — Vienna 11.8.1948. Czech Linguist. Called Professor (1939), probably at the gymnasium of Mariańské Lázně. Active as early as ...

  • HROMOV, Al’bert Leonidovič

    HROMOV, Albert Leonidovič. Novgorod 28.8.1930 — 20.4.1992. Russian Iranian Scholar. Son of a military official. Graduated from Moscow University in 1954. Kand. filol. nauk 1963, ...

  • HROZNÝ, Bedřich

    HROZNÝ, Bedřich (Friedrich Hr.). Lissa (now Lysá nad Labem) 6.5.1879 — Prague 12.12.1952. Czech Orientalist (Assyriologist and Hittite Scholar), attempted at Decipherment of Indus ...

  • HÛ, Fernand

    HÛ, Fernand. 18?? — 1???. French Indologist (in preface he calls French “notre langue” and France “notre pays”). Apparently a student of Féer, whom he thanks.

  • HUART, Clément

    HUART, Clément —> IMBAULT-HUART, Clément.

  • HUBER, Edouard

    HUBER, Édouard (Eduard). Großwangen, Canton Luzern 12.8.1879 — Vinh Long, Vietnam 6.1.1914 (when 35). Swiss Sinologist and South-East Asian Scholar ...

  • HUBERT, Henri

    HUBERT, Henri Pierre Eugène. Paris 23.6.1872 — Chatou (Yvelines) 25.5.1927. French Sociologist, Scholar of Ancient History and Religion. Born in a middle class family, ...

  • HÜBSCHMANN, Heinrich

    HÜBSCHMANN, Johann Heinrich. Erfurt 1.7.1848 — Strassburg 20.1.1908. German Indo-Iranist. Professor in Strassburg. Son of Ernst Friedrich Hübschmann (d. 1854), a mill owner, and Martha Cramer. ...

  • HÜBSCHMANNOVÁ, Milena
    HÜBSCHMANNOVÁ, Milena. Prague 10.6.1933 — Kameeldrift, South Africa 8.9.2005. Czech Indologist and Romani scholar. After school in Prague studied from 1951 Bengali and Hindi-Urdu at Prague. In ...
  • HUC, Évariste-Régis

    HUC, Évariste-Régis. Caylus (Tarn-et-Garonne) 1.8.1813 — Paris 31.3.1860. French Lazarist Missionary in China. Son of Jacques-François-Régis Huc and Marie-Rose Maleterre.  Seminary in Toulouse. In the ...

  • HUDSON-WILLIAMS, Thomas

    HUDSON-WILLIAMS, Thomas. Caernarfon, Gwynedd 4.2.1873 — 12.4.1961. British (Welsh) Celtologist and Comparative Linguist. Professor in Bangor. Son of R. Williams. Educated in ...

  • HUDSON, D. Dennis
    HUDSON, Dean Dennis. San Bernardino, Calif. 16.2.1938 — Northampton, Mass. 10.12.2006. U.S. Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of Dean Bradshaw Hudson (1902–1992) and Lisle McClellan. Ph.D. ...
  • HÜGEL, Carl Alexander, Freiherr von

    HÜGEL, Carl Alexander Anselm, Freiherr von. Regensburg 25.4.1796 — Brussels ...

  • HUGHES, George A.

    HUGHES, George Arthur. 17?? — 26.2.1835 (when about 65). Britishman in India. Son of Robert Hughes of Madras Civil Service, educated in Cambridge by his uncle, Dr. Hughes, the ...

  • HUIZINGA, Johan

    HUIZINGA, Johan. Groningen 7.12.1872 — De Steeg, Gelderland 1.2.1945. Dutch Student of Indology, then Famous Historian. Professor in Leiden. Son of Dirk Huizinga, a Professor ...

  • HUJER, Oldřich

    HUJER, Oldřich. Paceřice, Liberec region 25.11.1880 — Prague 4.6.1942. Czech IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Prague. Son of Jan Hujer and Josefa Kovářova. Student of ...

  • HULBERT, Katherine W.

    HULBERT, Katherine W. 19.11.1909 — ?.11.1989. U.S. Physical Anthropologist. B.A., M.A. Ph.D. 1969 University of Colorado in Boulder. Teacher at Fort Lewis College in Durango, ...

  • HÜLLMANN, Karl Dietrich

    HÜLLMANN, Karl Dietrich. Erdeborn, Mansfeld-Südharz 10.9.1765 — Bonn 4.3.1846. German Historian. Son of Erdmann Hüllmann, a minister, and Eleonore Dorguth (d. 1772). After gymnasium in Eisleben studied theology and ...

  • HULTZSCH, Eugen

    HULTZSCH, Eugen Julius Theodor. Dresden 29.3.1857 — Halle 16.1.1927. German Indologist and Epigraphist. Twenty years in India, then Professor in ...

  • HUMBOLDT, Alexander von

    HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von. Berlin 14.9.1769 — Berlin 6.5.1859. German Geographer and Explorer. Son of the Prussian ...

  • HUMBOLDT, Wilhelm, Freiherr von

    HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Carl Ferdinand, Freiherr von. Potsdam 22.6.1767 — Tegel bei Berlin 8.4.1835. German Diplomat and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of the ...

  • HUME, Robert Ernest

    HUME, Robert Ernest. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra 20.3.1877 — New York 4.1.1948. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Scholar of Religion. Professor in New York. Born in India as the ...

  • HUMMEL, Karl

    HUMMEL, Karl. Weiler, Kr. Lindau (Bodensee) 25.4.1902 — Weiler 26.12.1987. German Pharmacist, Botanist and former Student of Indology. Son of Max Hummel (d. 1947), a pharmacist, ...

  • HUMMEL, Siegbert

    HUMMEL, Siegbert. Rodewisch, Vogtland 18.7.1908 — Lengenfeld (or Röthenbach?), Vogtland 28.3.2001. German (East) Priest, Art Historian and Tibetan Scholar. He had first mercantile training in order to take ...

  • HUMPHREYS, Christmas

    HUMPHREYS, Travers Christmas (“Toby”). Ealing, Middlesex 15.2.1901 — London 13.4.1983. British Lawyer and Bauddha. Son of a lawyer, Travers ...

  • HUNFALVY, Pál

    HUNFALVY, Pál (born Paul Hundsdorfer). Nagyszalók (now Velký Slavkov in Slovakia) 12.3.1810 — Budapest 30.11.1891. Hungarian Linguist. Librarian in Budapest. Born in ...

  • HUNGERLEIDER, Fritz

    HUNGERLEIDER, Fritz (Hung Hsi-san). Vienna 1920 — Vienna 1998. Austrian Bauddha. Son of a Jewish merchant and Catholic mother, grew up as Roman Catholic. Studied ...

  • HUNT, Edmund Henderson

    HUNT, Edmund Henderson. Kensington, London 23.11.1874 — Farnham, Surrey 15.12.1952. British Physician (Surgeon) in India, interested ...

  • HUNT, Mabel

    HUNT, Mabel. 18?? — 19??. Miss. British Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Apparently among the students of Rhys Davids. At the time of her first ...

  • HUNTER, Robert

    HUNTER, Robert. Newburgh, Fife 3.9.1823 — Loughton, Essex 25.2.1897. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India, Historian, Lexicographer and Naturalist. Son of John Mackenzie Hunter (1795–1878), an ...

  • HUNTER, William

    HUNTER, William. Montrose, Angus 1755 — Java 15.12.1812. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of Thomas Hunter and May Charteris. Educated at Marischal College ...

  • HUNTER, William Wilson

    HUNTER, William Wilson. Glasgow 15.7.1840 — Oaken Holt near Oxford 7.2.1900. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant, Historian, Statistician, Ethnologist and Linguist in India. Son of Andrew ...

  • HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth
    HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth. Galesburg, Illinois 16.9.1876 — New Haven 17.10.1947. U.S. Geographer and Central Asian Explorer. Graduated from Beloit College 1897. M.A. 1902 Harvard. Ph.D. 1909 Yale. He ...
  • HURVITZ, Leon

    HURVITZ, Leon Nahum. Cambridge, MA 4.8.1923 — Vancouver 28.9.1992. U.S. Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Son of Benjamin S. Hurvitz (1893–1971) and Rachel Rose Marcus, ...

  • HUS Rasinjanin, Juraj

    HUS (Hosti) Rasinjanin, Juraj (Latin Georgius Huszthius). Rasinja 1510 (or earlier?) — Požun 1566 (or later?). Croatian Traveller. He was forcibly enlistened by Turks in ...

  • HÜSING, Georg

    HÜSING, Georg. Liegnitz in Prussian Silesia (now Legnica in Poland) 4.6.1869 — Vienna 1.9.1930. German Scholar of Near Eastern and Iranian history in Austria. Studies at ...

  • HUTCHINSON, J. Robert

    HUTCHINSON, J. Robert. 18?? — 1???. Rev. Canadian Baptist Missionary in India. Perhaps from Nova Scotia. From 1881 worked in Chicacole (Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh). In 1887 returned to Canada, but ...

  • HUTCHISON, John
    HUTCHISON, John. Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1848 — Chamba 24.7.1936 (when 88). British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Peter Hutchinson and Anne Mcghie. Studied medicine in Edinburgh. Medical missionary of the ...
  • HUTCHISON, John

    HUTCHISON, John. Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1848 — Chamba 24.7.1936 (when 88). British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son ...

  • HUTH, Georg

    HUTH, Georg. Krotoschin, Posen (now Krotoszyn in Poland) 25.2.1867 — Berlin 1.6.1906. German Indologist and Tibetologist. Born in a Jewish family in the then Prussian part ...

  • HUTH, Otto

    HUTH, Otto. Bonn 9.5.1906 — Tübingen 1998. German Scholar of Religion. Professor in Tübingen. Son of a neuropathologist. Educated in Bonn. From 1925 studied theology ...

  • HÜTTEMANN, Wilhelm

    HÜTTEMANN, Wilhelm Ferdinand. Braunsberg/Ostpreussen (Braniewo in Poland) 27.3.1871 — before 1923. German Teacher and ...

  • HUTTEN, Kurt

    HUTTEN, Kurt. Langenburg, Kr. Schwäbisch-Hall 6.3.1901 — Ludwigsburg, Württemberg 17.8.1979. German Theologian (ev.). Studies at seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren and at Tübingen University. Ph.D. ...

  • HUTTON, John Henry

    HUTTON, John Henry. West Heslerton, Malton, Yorkshire 27.6.1885 — New Radnor, Radnorshire 23.5.1968. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of the elder J. H. ...

  • HYACINTH, Father

    HYACINTH, Father —> BIČURIN, Iakinf.

  • HYART, Charles
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