MØLLER-KRISTENSEN, Frede. Nr. Herlev 6.1.1933 — 21.2.2003. Danish Indologist. M.A. 1960 Copenhagen. She contributed to the C.P.D. in the 1950s and was its editor in the 1960s. In 1966-72 also lecturer in Pāli at Copenhagen University. Then Director of Oriental Department of Kongelige Bibliotek 1969-87. She was dismissed because of alcoholism.…
MITCHELL, Alfred Norval. 18.12.1906 — 1988. British Civil Servant in India. Joined I.C.S. in 1930, 1934 transferred to Political Service. Until 1947 Administrator of Bastar State. Married, at least one son. Publications: A Grammar of Maria Gondi, as Spoken by the Bison Horn or Dandami Marias of Bastar State. 4+69 p. Jagdalpur…
MINTURN, Ann Leigh. Chicago 1.7.1928 — 31.10.1999. U.S. Cross-Cultural Scholar. Daughter of Harold D. Minturn and Emma Hamsher. Graduated 1949 from Mount Holyoke College. M.A. 1952 and Ph.D. 1954 Radcliffe College, in Social Psychology. From 1954 Research Associate at Cornell University, 1958-67 at University of Illinois. Then taught at University of…
MILWARD, Marguerite. Near Birmingham 1873 — 11.2.1953. British Artist. Educated at the art schools of Birmingham and Bromsgrove, further studies in Paris. Before WW I in Sri Lanka. “As a sculptress she travelled in search of typical heads among certain primitive tribes and backward classes” all over India in the…
MIGOT, André. Paris 28.2.1892 — Villejuif 17.2.1967. French Physician and Traveller. Dr.med. In WW I served as medical officer. Then physician in Paris. In 1938-39 visited Afghanistan and India. During WW II worked in occupied Paris, after war went to Indochina and in 1947-48 visited Eastern Tibet and China, but…
MICHELS, Victor. Stassfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt 3.7.1866 — Jena 4.2.1929. German Germanist and Linguist. Professor in Jena Son of factory director Friedrich (Fritz) M. (d. 1872) and Martha Kullak. Gymnasium and from 1884 studies in Berlin, concentrated on Germanistics, Linguistics and philosophy (Deussen). From 1885 continued at Heidelberg (Osthoff et al.) and…
MEZGER, Fritz. Ilsfeld bei Heilbronn 15.10.1893 — King of Prussia near Philadelphia, PA 9.6.1979. German Linguist in the U.S.A. Matriculated 1911, then studies of modern philology and comparative IE at Tübingen. Participated in WW I, wounded. Continued his studies at Munich and Berlin. Ph.D. 1921 Berlin (diss. on Old English).…
MEINHARD, Heinrich. 1900 — 1975. German Anthropologist and former Student of Indology in the U.K. Ph.D. 1928 Bonn under Kirfel, but then turned to anthropology. Curator in Berlin Ethnographic Museum. To save his Jewish wife he escaped to the U.K. and worked in Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1938-47…
MAXWELL, William Graham. Canonbie, Dumfriesshire 10.7.1803 — after 1858.British Physician in India. Son of George M. and Anne (or Anna) Bell. M.D. 1825 Edinburgh. In Madras medical service, worked in Gumsūr. From 1841 in China. Publications: “Cursory Notes on Wodiahghur and the adjacent part of Goomsoor, and on the People of…
MATEER, Samuel. 1835 — England 24.12.1893. Rev. British (?) Missionary in India. Worked 33 years, until 1891, in Travancore for London Missionary Society, encouraged local people for ministry. In 1890 his wife had to return to England because of ill health, husband followed him in 1891 and died there. Publications: “The…