MACAULIFFE, Max Arthur (born Michael Macauliffe). Glenmore, Monagea, co. Limerick 11.9.1838 (Foley) or Newcastle West, county Limerick 10.9.1841 (Wikip.) — Kensington, London 15.3.1913. Irish Scholar of Sikhism in India. Son of John McA., a schoolteacher, and Julia Browne. Educated at Glenmore, Templeglantine (his father’s schools) and finally at Springfield College…
MACARTNEY, George. Nanjing 19.1.1867 — Jersey 19.5.1945. British Diplomat in Central Asia. Son of Halliday Macartney (1833-1905, Scottish officer in Chinese service) and a Chinese princess, born in China. From 1877 in London. Studies in France. In 1887 went to India, working as Chinese interpreter. In 1890-1918 he lived in…
LYALL, Charles James. London 9.3.1845 — London 1.9.1920. Sir. British Civil Servant and Oriental (Arabic and Urdu) Scholar. Son of Charles L., a banker, and Harriet Matheson. Educated at King’s College School and College, studies at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1867). Joined the Bengal Civil Service in 1867 and served…
LUPTON, Walter James Edwin. Clapham, Surrey 30.5.1871 — Oxford 27.11.1955. British Civil Servant in India. Educated at City of London School, studies at London University and New College, Oxford (B.A. 1893). Joined I.C.S. and served in United Provinces in 1895-1920. Later Secretary of the Oxfordshire Division Medical War Committee 1939-47.…
LULIUS VAN GOOR, Maria Elisabeth. Gouda 5.9.1866 — Leiden 2.7.1929. Dutch Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Daughter of Dirk L. van G. (1842–1882), a publisher, who supported women’s higher education, and Elisabeth Romijn. In 1881-85 she was the first female student admitted to the Hogere Burger Highschool. But the father died in…
LÜDERS, Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Christian. Lübeck 25.6.1869 — Badenweiler, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald 7.5.1943. German Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Husband of —> Else Lüders. Son of a factory owner, Friedrich Lüders and Hedwig Heym, he went to school and matriculated in 1888 from Katharineum in Lübeck. After one term of Germanic studies at…
LÜDERS, Else (née Peipers). Göttingen 20.10.1880 — Berlin 13.3.1945. German Indologist. Wife of —> Heinrich Lüders. Daughter of David Peipers (1838–1912), Professor of Philosophy at Göttingen. From 1900 engaged to marry Heinrich Lüders, who also soon became her teacher in Sanskrit. After marriage she assisted her husband in his Mahābhārata…
LUDWIG, Alfred. Vienna 9.10.1832 — Prague 12.6.1912. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Prague. Son of Johannes L., a teacher of French, and Ludowika Köckh, grew up in Vienna, matriculated from Akademisches Gymnasium. From 1852 studies of classical philology, IE linguistics and Sanskrit at Vienna (under Boller) and in 1855-57 at Berlin…
LUDLOW, John Malcolm Forbes. Nimach, Madhya Pradesh 8.3.1821 — 17.10.1911. Sir. British Lawyer and Historian. Son of colonel John L. of I.C.S., educated at Merchant Taylor’s School and College Bourbon in Paris. In 1843 he was called to the bar from Lincoln’s Inn and practised as Conveyancer until 1874. In…
LUBAC, Henri-Marie Joseph Sonier de. Cambrai 20.2.1896 — Paris 4.9.1991 (when 95). S.J. French Catholic Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Cardinal of the Roman Church. Sn of a banker, of ancient nobility, schooled by Jesuits in Lyon, where the family had moved in 1898. Joined Jesuit order 1913 and…