Quotes:Haug, Martin

Zirkoff, Boris

Haug, Martin. German Orientalist, b. at Ostdorf, Wurttemberg; d. at Munich, June 3, 1876. Studied Oriental languages, especially Sanskrit, at Tubingen and Gottingen, and in 1854 settled as privatdozent at Bonn. Removed to Heidelberg, 1856, where he assisted Bunsen in his literary work. Went out to India in 1859, where he became superintendent of Sanskrit studies and professor of Sanskrit at Poona. The result of his researches into Zend literature was a volume of Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings and Religion of the Parsees, Bombay, 1862. Having returned to Stuttgart in 1866, he was called to Munich as professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in 1868. Haug also edited, translated and explained *The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda, Bombay, 1863, 2 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 468

Haug, Martin (1827-1876). *Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda . . . Ed., transl. and explained by M.H., Bombay, 1863, 2 vols. Reprint of transl. in Sacred Books of the Hindus, extra vol. 4. See Vol. I, p. 468, for biogr. data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 510

Haug, Martin. German Orientalist, b. at Ostdorf, Württemberg, Jan. 30, 1827; d. at Munich, June 3, 1876. Studied Oriental languages, especially Sanskrit, at Tübingen and Göttingen, and settled in 1854 as Privatdozent at Bonn. Moved, 1856, to Heidelberg, where he assisted Bunsen in his literary work. Went to India in 1859, where he became superintendent of Sanskrit studies and Prof, of Sanskrit at Poona. He returned to Stuttgart in 1866, and was called to Munich in 1868 as Prof, of Sanskrit and comparative philology. His chief work is: Essays on the Sacred Languages, Writings, and Religion of the Parsees, Bombay, 1862; 2nd ed., 1878; 3rd ed., 1878. He translated the Aitareya-Brahmana of the Rigveda, Bombay, 1863, 2 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 651