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 and history of religions at Jena. Ph.D. 1909 Jena. Served in WW I. Active in politics, in 1923 nine months in prison because of a…
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 at Queen’s College, Belfast. M.A. Magistrate in Lucknow (1880). Commissioner in Gorakhpur (1892/98). From c. 1910 Reader in Hindustani and Indian History at Trinity…
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 Hirth (1807–1857), a lawyer, and Louise Drevelle du Frênes (1819–1860). Educated at Gotha Gymnasium, in 1865-68 studies of classical philology at Leipzig, Berlin and…
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 (also his father, Micaiah Hill, had been missionary in India) and Leonora Josephina Müller. Educated at Blackheath School (for the sons of missionaries), at…
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 Princeton. Son of Joseph Herzfeld (1836–1916), Prussian military doctor, and Margarethe Rosenthal. After gymnasium in Verden and Berlin and 1897-98 one year of military service he studied at Technische Hochschule…
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 Herder (1706–1763), a modest precentor and teacher, and Anna Elisabeth Peltz. After Pietist education studied theology at Königsberg, where Kant and Hamann inspired his thinking. In…
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. J. Spanish Historian in India. Professor in Bombay. Son of Maria Sicars i Couret and Ponç (Pontio) Heras i Jorda, of a very old and well-to-do Catalonian family. Studies of…
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 clergyman, and Margarethe Wolters (d. 1770), educated under a tutor until 16, when family moved to Bremen and Heeren went to Gymnasium there. In…
JUSTI, Ferdinand Wilhelm Jakob. Marburg 2.6.1837 — Marburg 17.2.1907. German Iranian and IE Scholar. Professor in Marburg. Son of a minister, Wilhelm J., and Friederike Ruppersberg, grandson of Karl Wilhelm J. (1767-1846), Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Marburg. In 1856-59 studies at Marburg (under Gildemeister), then 1859-60 at Göttingen…
JUNGE, Peter Julius. Bonn 30.8.1913 — 1943. German Classical and Iranian Scholar. Educated in Breslau, then studies at Vienna and Breslau, joined NSDAP 1929 when still at school. Studies at Vienna and Breslau. Ph.D. 1936 Breslau (under E. Kornemann). Still in 1936 (or 1938?) visited Iran. In 1937-40 in Berlin…