HALHED, Nathaniel Brassey. Westminster 25.5.1751 — London 18.2.1830. British Precursor of Indology. Son of William H., a bank director, educated at Harrow. From 1768 studies at Christ Church, Oxford, where —> William Jones prompted him to study Arabic. After a brush-off accepted a post of Writer and left for India…
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. Son of Willi and Ilse-Marie H. Studies of philosophy, Indology (Waldschmidt) and classical philology 1959-61 & 1962-66 at Göttingen, 1961-62 at Vienna. Ph.D. 1966…
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 of Koppers. PD 1941 Vienna, soon to army. Ao. Professor from 1950. After war continued Amerindian studies, but in the late 1950s turned to South…
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. Son of a coachman, the family moved to Normandy when he was one year old. French citizen 1912. Studies in Paris (including Sanskrit and Tibetan), diplomes…
HACKER, Paul. Seelscheid, Bergisches Land (Kreis Sieg) 6.1.1913 — Münster, Westfalen 18.3.1979. German Indologist. Professor in Bonn and Münster. After matriculation from Siegburg Gymnasium studied Indology, modern literature (English, French and Russian) and philosophy at Bonn, Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Berlin. In Indology student of Kirfel, Losch, Zimmer, Ruben, and Breloer.…
HAAS, Ernst Anton Max. Coburg 18.4.1835 — London 3.7.1882. German Indologist in London. Son of Friedrich Haas. After school in Coburg studies of Germanic and Romance philology at Berlin and Bonn. Through comparative linguistics he became interested in Sanskrit and went to Tübingen to study under Roth, then also Weber’s…
GWYNN, John Peter Lucius. London 22.6.1916 — Bromley, Kent 14.9.1999. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Tudor Gwynn, I.C.S., of Irish background, and Joan Sedding. After early childhood in South India educated in Oxford and Dublin. After studies of Classics and Comparative Linguistics at Dublin (B.A. 1938 at…
GRISWOLD, Hervey DeWitt. Dryden, NY 24.5.1860 — 15.5.1945. Rev. U.S. Missionary interested in Indian Religion. Son of Benjamin Gr. and Laura Eliza Hurd. B.A. 1885 Union College in Schenectady, NY (M.A. 1900, D.D. 1910). Graduated from Union Theological Seminar 1888. Further studies in 1888-90 at Oxford and Berlin Universities. Ordained…
GRAY, Louis Herbert. Newark, NJ 10.4.1875 — New York 18.8.1955. U.S. Indologist, Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Professor in New York. Studies at Princeton (A.B. 1896) and Columbia (A.M. 1898, Ph.D. 1900, under A. V. Williams Jackson). In 1900-02 chief cataloguer and Instructor of Indo-Iranian at Princeton, 1902-03 editor in the…
GORRESIO, Carlo Guido Gaspare. Bagnasco (Como) 18.1.1807 — Turin 20/21.5.1891. Abate. Italian Indologist. Librarian in Turin. Son of Giovanni Battista G., a notary, and Clotilde Dealberti. According to Piovano, who has checked the book of births, the often mentioned birth date at 20.6.1808 is not correct. Educated at Bagnasco and…