MACHALSKI, Franciszek. Braddock near Pittsburgh 5.7.1904 — Cracow 24.1.1979. Polish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Cracow. Born in a poor emigrant family in the U.S.A., they returned to Poland, when he was six. Grew up in Żołynia, near Łańcut in south-eastern Poland. From 1924 studied Polish and German, soon Sanskrti (Stasiak),…
KIRSTE, Johann Otto Ferdinand. Graz 1.10.1851 — Graz 2.5.1920. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Graz. Son of a ropemaker master Johann Martin K. in a Calvinist family originally coming from Posen, and Antoinette Hieronymus. In 1870-72 studies of classical philology and a little Sanskrit at Graz (under Schenkl). After brief periods…
KIESSLING, Max Hermann. Neuschönefeld near Leipzig 16.9.1877 — Munich 28.3.1946. German Classical Philologist, Historical Geographer and Iranian Scholar. Son of Hermann K., an estate owner. Gymnasium and studies in Leipzig, 1899-1900 in Berlin (under W. Sieglin). Ph.D. Leipzig 1900. Worked as Sieglin’s Assistant in Berlin. In 1910 moved to Rome…
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. Studies at Breslau, Berlin (i.al. under Andreas) and Königsberg. Ph.D. 1897 Königsberg. Living in Breslau, then Habilitation at Vienna in 1912 “für Geschichte und Kulturgeschichte des alten Orients”.…
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…
HOEGELSBERGER, Karl. 18?? — 19??. Austrian Student of Iranian (?). Ph.D. 1908 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Sprachvergleichende Studien aus dem Persischen. Vienna 1908. Sources: Nothing found.
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. Studied first journalism, but soon switched to East European history, Slavistics, Turkish and Persian (under Schaeder and Massé), in 1926-30 at Leipzig, Munich and Paris. Ph.D. 1930…
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 and Material Culture in Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1936, Docent 1938. Taught at Leningrad University in 1936-42. Doktorant 1938-40, naučyj sotrudnik at Inst. Vostokovedenija…
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 Tibet. Son of Stadsarchitekt Abraham Ludvig H. and Anna Berlin. Matriculated 1885 from Stockholm. In 1886-88 studied geology at Stockholm and Uppsala (M.A.). In 1889-90 studies…
JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams. New York 9.2.1862 — New York 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, began with classics and Anglo-Saxon, but soon also took Sanskrit…