:To be distinguished from Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943) German Indologist, and Heinrich Zimmer (Celticist)
He was born in Cork and was educated at Queen's College Cork (now University College Cork), then went to Germany for advanced studies in Celtic languages, working with Heinrich Zimmer at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin (now the Humboldt University of Berlin) and later with Rudolf Thurneysen at the University of Freiburg, where he wrote his dissertation on palatalization in 1906.
Heinrich Himmler | Hans Zimmer | Heinrich Heine | Heinrich Schütz | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | Heinrich von Kleist | Heinrich Böll | Heinrich Isaac | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Heinrich Marschner | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | Heinrich Mann | Heinrich Hertz | Heinrich Graetz | Heinrich Böll Foundation | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters | Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher | Johann Heinrich Lambert | Heinrich von Breymann | Heinrich Finck | Heinrich Zimmer | Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove | Heinrich Wild | Heinrich von Bibra | Heinrich Schenker | Heinrich Nordhoff | Heinrich Leutemann | Heinrich Gustav Magnus | Ernst Heinrich Weber |
Following Woodroffe a number of scholars began investigating Tantric teachings, including scholars of comparative religion and Indology such as Agehananda Bharati, Mircea Eliade, Julius Evola, Carl Jung, Giuseppe Tucci and Heinrich Zimmer.