Iranian studies – Page 4 – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen

HOEGELSBERGER, Karl

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. In 1926-30 studied at Leipzig, Munich and Paris, first journalism, but soon switched to East European history, Slavistics, Turkish and Persian (under Schaeder and Massé). Ph.D. 1930…

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 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…

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. and U.S.A., great specialist of Middle Iranian Languages. Professor in London and Berkeley. Son of the local land registry director. Grew up in Köslin, Pomerania (now Koszalin in Poland), as…

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 Tibet. Son of Stadsarchitekt Abraham Ludvig Hedin (1826–1917) and Anna Sofia Carolina Berlin (1838–1925). Matriculated 1885 from Stockholm. In 1886-88 studied geology at Stockholm and Uppsala…

JACKSON, A. V. Williams

JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams. New York City 9.2.1862 — New York City 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 and University, began with classics and Anglo-Saxon, but…

IVANOV, Vladimir Alekseevič

IVANOV, Vladimir Alekseevič (W. Ivanow). St.Petersburg 22.10./3.11.1886 — Tehran 19.6.1970. Russian Iranian (Persian) Scholar in India and Iran. Son of Aleksej Andreevič Ivanov, an army surgeon, and Maria Filippovna Marčenko. From 1907 studies at St.Petersburg (Arabic under von Rosen, Persian under Žukovskij), graduated 1911. In 1910-14 worked in Russian Bank’s…

INOSTRANCEV, Konstantin Aleksandrovič

INOSTRANCEV, Konstantin Aleksandrovič. St.Petersburg 5(17).4.1876 — Leningrad end of December 1941. Russian Historian of Iran. Born in a noble family. Student of V. von Rosen. Graduated from St.Petersburg Oriental Faculty in 1899. Dr. istorii Vostoka 1908. Conservator of Ethnographic section of Russian Museum from 1902, from 1921 taught at Petrograd/Leningrad…

(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. and É.L.O.V. After a period (1875-78) as interpreter student in French consulate in Damascus he served nearly 20 years in Constantinople, in the end…

GRAY, Louis H.

GRAY, Louis Herbert. Newark, NJ 10.4.1875 — New York 18.8.1955. U.S. Indologist, Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Professor in New York. Son of Thomas J. Gray and Anna Elizabeth Earl. 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…