HAUG, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1761-1829), a German epigrammatist, was born March 19, 1761, at Niederstotzingen in Würtemberg, and received his early training from his father, who was afterwards professor and preacher at Stuttgart. From the gymnasium in this city Haug passed in 1776 to the Prince Charles academy, where he had Schiller as a fellow scholar, and, after finishing the philosophical and philological course, he devoted himself to the study of legal science with so much success that lie attracted the attention of the duke. In 1784 he was appointed secretary of the private closet to his patron, in 1791 received the title of curial and palatine count, in 1794 became the duke’s private secretary, and in 1817 was made Hofrath or aulic councillor and librarian of the public library at Stuttgart. In 1827 he travelled through northern Germany, and on 30th January 1829 he died. Haug began his career as an author by publishing Sinngedichte von Friedrich Hophthalrnos (Frankfort, 1791), the pseudonym Hophthalmos being a jocular Greek equivalent of his own name {Aug, the eye, equal to Ophthalmos, and therefore Haug equal to Hophthalmos)....
Among his later works, which are as often characterized by a love of fun as by power of wit, it is enough to mention Epigramme und vermischte Gedichte, Berlin, 1805; Hundert Epigramme auf Aerzte die Keine sind, Zurich, 1806; Epigrammatische Spiele, 1807; Taschenbuch dem Bacchus und locus geweiht, Stuttgart, n.d.; Magische Laterne, Brünn, 1820; Panorama der Laune und des Witzes, Tübingen, 1826; and, perhaps more famous than any, Zweihundert Hyperbeln auf Herrn Wahls ungeheure Nase, Stuttgart, 1804, new edition, Brünn, 1822. Along with Weisses, Haug published Epigrammatische Anthologie, Stuttgart, 1807-1809, 10 vols. A selection from his poems appeared at Hamburg, 1827, 2 vols.
HAUG, Martin (1827-1876), Orientalist, was born at Ostdorf near Balingen, Würtemberg, January 30, 1827. As a self-taught lad he became a pupil in the gymnasium at Stuttgart at a comparatively late age; and in 1848 he entered the university of Tübingen, where he devoted himself to the study of the Oriental languages, and especially of Sanskrit under Roth. He afterwards for some time attended the lectures of Ewald and Benfey in Göttingen, and finally “habilitated” as a privat-docent at Bonn. In 1856 he removed to Heidelberg as collaborateur in the preparation of Bunsen’s Bibelwerh∙, and in 1859 he accepted an invitation to India, where he became superintendent of Sanskrit studies and professor of Sanskrit in Poona. There his previous acquaintance with the Zend language and literature enabled him to associate with the Parsees on such terms a3 afforded the best opportunities for perfecting his knowledge in this department. The result of his researches was the volume of Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsees (Bombay, 1862). After a residence of six years in India, he was compelled by domestic circumstances to return to Würtemberg in 1865; from Stuttgart he was called to Munich as first professor ordinarius of Sanskrit and comparative grammar in 1868. He died at Ragatz in Switzerland on the 3d of June 1876.
Besides the Essays οη the Parsees, of which a new edition, by West, greatly enriched from the posthumous papers of the author, appeared in 1878, Haug published a number of works of considerable importance to the student of the literatures of ancient India and Persia. They include Die Pehlewisprache u. der Buιulekesch (1854); Die Schrift u. Sprache der zweiten Keilschriftgattung (1855); Die fünf Gathas, edited, translated, and expounded (1858-60); an edition with translation and explanation of The Aitarcya Brahmana of the Rigυeda (1863); A Lecture on an original Speech of Zoroaster (1865); An old Zend-Pahlavi Glossary (1867); Ueber den Charakter der Pehlewisprache (1869); Das 18*<≡ Capiteldes Wendidad (1869); Ueber das Ardai-Viraf-nameh (1870); An old Pahlavi-Pazand Glossary (1870); Vedische Räthselfragen u. Räthselspruche (1875).
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