HAUG, MARTIN (1827-1876), German orientalist, was born at Ostdorf near Balingen, Wurttemberg, on Jan. 3o, 1827. He studied oriental languages, especially Sanskrit, at Tubingen and Gottingen, and in 1854 settled as Privatdozent at Bonn. In 1856 he removed to Heidelberg, where he assisted Bunsen in his literary work; and in 1859 he went out to India, where he became superintendent of Sanskrit studies and professor of Sanskrit in 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 corn parative philology in 1868. He died on June 3, 1876.