MATICS, Marion Leonidas, Jr. Suffolk, Virginia 13.7.1917 — N.Y. 21.11.1998. Rev. U.S. Buddhist Scholar. Son of M. L. Matics, Sr. (1884–1961) and Elizabeth Parker (1892–1922). Ph.D. 1960 Columbia University. Episcopalian priest, served in several parishes, then Rector of Christ Church in Bayridge, Brooklyn, retired 1983. Also taught Oriental philosophy at…
MATERNA, Zdeněk. Brno 9.7.1900 — Ratibor (Racibórz in Poland) 23.3.1944. Czech Teacher and former Student of Indology. Educated in Brno, studies from 1920 at Prague. Ph.D. 1925 Charles University, Prague (under Zybatý). Then Gymnasium Professor in Ostrava (Moravia). Publications: Diss. Lze považovati verbální komposici a slovosled za kriterion parataxe a…
MASING, Uku (from 1937, born Hugo Albert M.). Lipa, Raikküla, Rapla district 11.8.1909 — Tartu 25.4.1985. Estonian Polyglot, Folklorist and Religious Philosopher. Son of Ado (Aadu) Masing (1862–1949) and Anna Furman. From 1928 studied theology at Tartu (M.A. 1930). In 1930-33 further studies at Tübingen and Berlin, then taught theology…
MAROUZEAU, Jules Emile. Fleurat (Creuse) 20.3.1878 — Iteuil (Vienne) 27.9.1964. French Linguist and Latin Scholar. Son of a farmer, educated in Guéret and at Lycée Lakanal. In 1901-07 studies at Sorbonne (agrégé 1904), i.al. under Meillet. Docteur-ès-lettres 1910 (both dissertations on Latin). In 1910-12 further studies in Germany, Italy and…
MANDEL’ŠTAM, Anatolij Maksimilijanovič. Vorone¢ 11.8.1920 — 8.9.1983. Russian Archaeologist of Central Asia. of physician (pathologist) Professor Maksimilian Emil’evič Mandel’štam (1896–1942). Graduated in 1941 in Leningrad in history, in 1942-46 in army. Kand. ist. nauk 1951, Dr. 1973. Naučnyj sotrudnik from 1951 at Archaeological Institute of Soviet Academy in Leningrad, from…
MANDELBAUM, David Goodman. Chicago 22.8.1911 — Berkeley 19.4.1987. U.S, Anthropologist. Studies at Northwestern University (B.A. 1932). Ph.D. 1936 Yale, under E. Sapir. After a short time at University of Minnesota in war service in South-East Asia 1943-46. From 1946 Associate Professor, then Professor and chairman of Anthropology Dept. at University…
MALLMANN, Marie-Thérèse Hélène Henriette Suzanne de. Paris 6.10.1909 — Château-d’Œx, Canton Vaud, Switzerland 21.9.1975. French Indologist and Art Historian. Daughter of Émile de Mallmann (1863–1914) and Marie-Thérèse von Liebig (1871–1944). Before the war started studies at É.P.H.É. (Foucher, Przyluski and Mus, diplôme 1948) and École de Louvre (Hackin, Grousset and…
MAKOVEL’SKIJ, Aleksandr Osipovič. Grodno (Hrodna in Belarus) 10(22).8.1884 — Baku 16.12.1969. Russian Iranian Scholar in Azerbaijan. Son of an official, Osip Konstantinovič Makovel’skij, and Elena Osipovna, educated in Grodno. Graduated 1907 from Kazan University (Ph.D.), Dr. of Science 1921 Kazan. Dr. filos. nauk 1946. In 1909-20 taught higher female classes…
MCGOVERN, William Montgomery. New York 28.12.1897 — Evanston, Ill. 12.12.1964. U.S.Anthropologist and Journalist. Professor in Evanston. Son of Janet Blair (née Montgomery) and Felix Daniel McGovern, an army officer. Grew up in Japan, then studied at Sorbonne and Berlin. D.Phil. 1922 Oxford (Christ Church). Taught Chinese at S.O.A.S. as Lecturer…
FAY, Edwin Whitfield. Minden, Louisiana 1.1.1865 — Pittsburgh, PA 17.2.1920. U.S. Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Austin. Son of Edwin Hedge Fay (1832–1898), a noted educator, and Sarah Elizabeth Shields, attended with a few other boys on a special permission the girls’ school, Silliman Institute, where his father was the…