MANENGO, Andrea. Brescia 12.2.1812 — Catamarca, Argentina 7.2.1900. Italian Physician interested in Āyurveda. Studies around 1850. Dr. Med. Worked in Brescia, taught natural sciences at local liceo (1852), then in Guastalla. Finally emigrated to Argentina and was Consul in Catamarca near Chilean border. Publications: Susruta Ayurveda, ossia i codici dell’…
MANEN, Mari Albert Johan van. Nijmegen 16.4.1877 — Calcutta 17.4.1943. Dutch Librarian and Theosophist in India. Son of Reinier Otto van Manen (1843–1923), an engineer in state service, and Maria Albertina Johanna van Tricht, grew up in Zutphen and Haarlem. After a chequered youth, more interested in art and politics…
MAN, Edward Horace. Singapore 1846 — Brighton, Sussex 28.9.1929. British Civil Servant and Ethnographist in India. Son of Captain (future General) Henry Stuart Man (1815–1898) and Emma Martha Thompson. From 1869 worked long time in various positions in the penal settlement of Port Blair, Andamans (like his father before him),…
MALTBY, Thomas James. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Possibly son of elder Thomas James Maltby, who was British Vice-Consul in Brussels. Served as assistant collector of Ganjam district under Madras Presidency, later apparently superintendent. An Internet forum offers the following dramatic account signed by Roy Corduroy: “Civil…
MALINOWSKI, Franciszek Ksawery. Gołubie, Pomerania 27.12.1807 (or 1808) — Komorniki, Wielkopolskie 30.1.1881. Polish Priest and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of the elder Fr. Malinowski (1781–1829) and Dorota Weronika Bohm (d. 1809). After school in Skępo, Żuromin and Płock, studies at Warsaw and from 1829 at seminary in Pelplin. In…
MALCOLM, John. Burnfoot,Dumfriesshire 2.5.1769 — Windsor 31.5. or 30.7.1833. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Diplomat and Historian in India. Major-General. Son of George Malcolm, a tenant farmer, and Margaret Pasley, educated at Westerkirk. In 1782 (when 13) joined Indian army and arrived at Madras 1783. In 1792 under Cornwallis at…
MALAN, Caesar Jean Salmon (then Solomon Caesar Malan). Geneva 12.4.1812 (or 23.4.) — Bournemouth 25.11.1894. Rev. Swiss Priest, Polyglot and Oriental Scholar in the U.K. Son of Dr. César Henri Abraham Malan (1787–1864), a controversial theologian, of an exiled French Huguenot family, and Salomé Georgette Jeanne Schönberger. Educated at Vandœuvres,…
MAJEWSKI, Walenty Skorochód. Guzy (Skorochodzie-Guzach), Podlachia (Podlasie) 1764 — Warsaw 3.7.1835. Polish Dilettante interested in Sanskrit. Born in a petty noble family. Graduated 1785 from Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw and worked then as teacher in the same. From 1803 worked as archivist, from 1808 in charge of the newly established…
MAJER (Maier), Friedrich. Koskau bei Schleiz 28.4.1772 — Gera 15.5.1818. German Lawyer and Scholar interested in India. Son of a minister. Studied law at Jena from 1791. He was lawyer in Göttingen and PD at Jena, then living in Weimar, in 1804–05 tutor of the heir-apparent Heinrich LXII of Reuss-Schleiz…
MAINWARING, George Byres. Banda, U.P., India 18.7.1825 — Serampore 16.1.1893. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of George Mainwaring (1791–1865) of I.C.S. and Isabella Byres. Educated in Aberdeen and Wimbledon. He became ensign in Bengal Army in 1842, Captain 1856, from 1868 Lieutenant-Colonel in Bengal Staff Corps, finally 1884 Major-General.…