KORVIN-KRASINSKI, Cyrill von (also written Korwin-Kr., Polish Cyryl Krasiński, lay Jan Kasímierz hr. Korwin-Krasiński). Mszana Dolna (then Austria, now Poland) 5.9.1905 — Maria Laach 1992. German (born Polish) Theologian and Scholar of Symbolism and Tibetan Medicine. Son of Henryk Piotr Zygmunt Krasiński (1866–1928). Ph.D. 1948 Mainz. Catholic priest and Benedictine monk…
KIRFEL, Willibald. Reifferscheid, Eifel 29.1.1885 — Bad Godesberg 16.10. 1964. German Indologist. Professor in Bonn. Son of Johann K., teacher in elementary school, and Anna Maria Huy. In 1904-08 studies of Oriental languages and Catholic theology at Bonn. Ph.D. 1908 Bonn (Jacobi). In 1911-21 Librarian in Bonn university library. From…
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 H. (1804–1882, translated the Gospels into Urdū) and Luise Mögling, born as British citizen. In 1848 he was sent to his grandparents in Germany…
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. Publications: Diss. med. Ueber Kindsmord in oder gleich nach der Geburt. 46 p. Bonn 1922. – Diss. phil. specimen of 20+40 p. 1933, whole work publ. as…
HESSLER, Franz. Krombach bei Aschaffenburg 15.10.1799 — Munich 17.6.1890. German Physician and Indologist in Bavaria. Son of a farmer, educated in Aschaffenburg. Began his philological studies at Würzburg, then 1822-27 medicine and philology at Heidelberg, Erlangen and Würzburg. Ph.D. (dr. phil.) 1827 Würzburg. From 1828 Assistant Physician in Würzburg, 1830…
JOLLY, Julius E. Heidelberg 28.12.1849 — Würzburg 25.4.1932. German Indologist. Professor in Würzburg. Born in a family with strong academic traditions, son of Philipp von Jolly (1809–1884), later Professor of Physics at Munich, and Luise Wüstenfeld. In 1867-71 studies of Oriental, Indo-Iranian and IE linguistics at Munich (Haug), Berlin (Weber)…
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…
GROHMANN, Joseph Virgil. Hainspach/Haňšpach (Bez. Schluckenau, now Šluknov in Czech) 12.12.1831 — Prague 12.10.1919. Bohemian Teacher interested in Philology. Studies of philology at Prague (i.al. under G. Curtius and Schleicher), Ph.D. there 1857. In 1856-63 Professor at Prager Handelsakademie, from 1866 Director of Leitmeritzer Oberrealschule in Litoměřice. From 1869 Referent…
GORDON, Charles Alexander. 1821 — London 30.9.1899. British Surgeon-General in India. Son of an officer. Studies at Edinburgh and St.Andrews (M.D. 1849). From 1841 Assistant Surgeon in Army Medical Department, served in North India, 1847-48 on West Africa expedition and 1860-61 in China. In 1870-71 in Franco-German war as medical…
GLEHN, Edmund Theophil de (von). Reval (Tallinn) 3.1.1800 — Ibid. 20.1.1884. Baltic German Physician interested in India. Son of Peter von Glehn (1751–1823), a merchant, and Mary/Margaretha Elisabeth Clayhills. Dr.med. Worked as Court Medicus for the Czar in St.Petersburg and collaborated with —> R. Lenz. Married Emilie Auguste Rosenbaum (1820–1894),…