MARICQ, André. Genial (Brabant) 29.11.1925 — Paris 22.6.1960 (when 34). Belgian Archaeologist, Art Historian and Historian, specially interested in Byzantium, the Near East and Afghanistan. School at Athenée d’Ixelles (Brussels), studies at Université libre de Bruxelles (cand.phil). Served as voluntary in British troops in the liberation of Belgium and the…
MARETIĆ, Tomislav (Tomo). Virovitica, Eastern Croatia 13.12.1854 — Zagreb 15.1.1938. Croatian Classical and Slavic Linguist. Gymnasium in Varaždin, Požega and Zagreb. Studied Slavic and classics at Zagreb, Ph.D. 1884 (diss. on Croatian accent). Further studies 1886-87 at Leipzig and Prague. In 1886-1914 taught Slavic as eo. Professor (1890 ord.) at…
MANWARING, Alfred. Broadwater, Sussex 5.4.1855 — Hastings (St.Leonards on Sea), Sussex 12.1.1950. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of William M. and Eliza Paine (1830–1871) . Ordained 1879. He served Church Mission Society (title page of 1899 book), probably in Nasik, but all further information remains without confirmation. In 1911…
MANSION, Joseph. Ghent 9.1.1877 — Liège 8.11.1937. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Liège. Son of the mathematician Paul Mansion (1844–1919) and Marie-Cécile Belpaire. After school in Ghent he studied in 1894-99 classical philology and law at Université de Gand where he also learned Sanskrit under La Vallée Poussin. Ph.D. 1899 in…
MANNERHEIM, Carl Gustaf Emil, baron. Louhisaari, Askainen 4.6.1867 — Lausanne 28.1.1951. Finnish Military Leader, Statesman and Traveller. Born in a family of nobility as the son of Carl Robert Mannerheim and Hélène von Julin (1842–1881) he obtained military education in Hamina and St.Petersburg and became an officer in Russian army.…
MAŃKOWSKI, Leon (von / M. h. Zaremba). Podolia 6.11.1858 — Cracow 18.4.1909. Polish (Austrian) Indologist. Professor in Cracow. Son of Walery M. and Tekla Natalia Łaźnińska. Gymnasium in Berlin and Dresden. After law studies at Leipzig started Slavonic and Indology at Breslau (Stenzler, Hillebrandt), then from 1891 under Bühler at Vienna,…
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, 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 than…
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 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), also…
MALOV, Sergej Efimovič. Kazan 4.1.(16.1.)1880 — Leningrad 6/7.9.1957. Russian Turkologist and Central Asian Scholar. Son of Evfemij Aleksandrovič Malov (1835–1918), Professor of the Theological Academy. Graduated 1904 at Kazan Theological Academy and 1909 at Oriental Faculty, St.Petersburg, in Islamic Languages. Mag. 1916 in Turkish Linguistics, Dr. of Linguistics 1935. Worked…
MAGOUN, Herbert William. Bath, co. Sagadahoc, Maine 17.2.1856 — Belmont, Mass. 8.1. 1956. U.S. Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of Thomas P. I. Magoun and Maria Littlefield. Studies at Iowa (now Grinnell) College (A.B. 1879, A.M. 1882). In 1879-80 Assistant Principal of High School in Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1880-81 Principal of…