HILKA, Alfons. Walzen, Oberschlesien (Walce in Poland) 30.7.1877 — Göttingen 21.6.1939. German Indologist and Scholar of Romance Languages. Professor in Göttingen. Son of the Catholic master tailor Johannes Hilka (1844–1901) and Franziska Kozlik (1856–1894). After gymnasium in Gross-Strelitz studies of Romance philology and Sanskrit at Breslau, Berlin and Poitiers, student…
HERMANN, Eduard. Coburg 19.12.1869 — Göttingen 14.2.1950. German IE scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Ernst Hermann (1828–1894), a Rentkommissar, and Augusta Marie Conrad. Studied classical philology and IE linguistics at Jena, Freiburg and Leipzig. Ph.D. 1894 Jena, under Delbrück. Teacher in Coburg, from 1903 in Bergedorf near Hamburg. From…
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…
HALOUN, Gustav. Pirnitz (now Brtnice in Moravia) 12.1.1898 — Cambridge 24.12.1951. Czech/German Sinologist in the U.K. Professor in Cambridge. Son of forest officer (Forstrat) G. Haloun, educated in Iglau (Jihlava). From 1916 in army, from 1918 studies of Sinology at Vienna (von Rosthorn) and especially at Leipzig, under Conrady. Ph.D.…
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 Halbfass. Studies of philosophy, Indology (Waldschmidt) and classical philology 1959-61 & 1962-66 at Göttingen, 1961-62 at Vienna. Ph.D. 1966…
GRELLMANN, Heinrich Moritz Gottlieb. Jena 7.12.1756 — Moscow 13.10.1804. German Cultural Historian, Statistician and Pioneer of Gipsy Studies. Professor at Göttingen. After school in Weimar studied 1776-81 at Jena under von Schlözer. Then in Göttingen, where he became in 1787 ao. and 1794 ord. Professor. In 1804 Professor of Statistics…
FICK, Richard Friedrich. Schwartau near Lübeck 7.2.1867 — Göttingen 18.12. 1944. German Indologist. Son of merchant Adolf Fick and Maria Loewe, went to school in Lübeck and from 1883 in Kiel, matriculated in 1885. Studies of German, English, philosophy and especially Indology (under Pischel and Jacobi) at Kiel. Ph.D. 1888…
FICK, Friedrich Conrad August. Petershagen bei Minden 5.5.1833 — Hildesheim 24.3.1916. German Linguist (IE scholar). Professor in Göttingen and Breslau. Son of Otto Vicke (Fick), later Landesökonomiekommissar, and Wilhelmine Hillefeld. School in Hildesheim. Studies of classical philology (K. F. Hermann), then comparative linguistics, Sanskrit and Avesta (Benfey). also Persian and Armenian…
EWALD, Georg Heinrich August (von). Göttingen 16.11.1803 — Göttingen 4.5.1875. German Oriental, especially Hebrew and Semitic Scholar, but also Indologist, and Theologian. Son of Heinrich Andreas Ewald (d. 1829), a master weaver, and Catharina Maria Ilse. After gymnasium studied theology and Oriental languages at Göttingen. Ph.D. there 1823. After a…
CLAWITER, Walter. 1923 — 23.11.1970. German Indologist. Ph.D. Göttingen 1958 (?) under Waldschmidt. Edited Turfan texts and assisted the manuscript catalogue and dictionary of the Turfan fragments in Göttingen in the 1960s. He died of hypertension before he had completed his habilitation and his mother Maria Clawiter (1896–1980) established Walter-Clawiter-Preis…