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 H. 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. Then in Göttingen, where he became in 1787 ao. and 1794 ord. Professor. In 1804 Professor of Statistics at Moscow University,…
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 E., a master weaver, and Catharina Maria Ilse. After gymnasium studied theology and Oriental languages at Göttingen. Ph.D. there 1823. After a short period as…
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 Cl. (1896–1980) established Walter-Clawiter-Preis…
BERTHOLET, Alfred Robert Felix. Basel 9.11.1868 — Münsterlingen, Thurgau 24.8.1951. Swiss Reformed Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion in Germany. Professor in Göttingen and Berlin. Son of David B., a school director, and Sabine Wagner. Studies of Theology at Basel, also briefly at Strasbourg and Berlin (under B. Duhm). From…
BENFEY, Theodor. Nörten bei Göttingen 28.1.1809 — Göttingen 26.6.1881. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Born in a Jewish family, son of Isaac B., a merchant and Talmud scholar, who also taught Hebrew to his son. School and studies (1824–) in Göttingen and Munich, mostly classical philology (K.…
BECHTEL, Fritz (Friedrich). Durlach 2.2.1855 — Halle 9.3.1924. German IE Scholar. Professor in Göttingen and Halle. Son of Johann Friedrich B., a deacon, and Emilie Harrer. After a brief time of theology in Heidelberg studied at Göttingen IE linguistics under Benfey, Bezzenberger, A. Fick et al. 1876 Ph.D. at Göttingen,…