MÜLLER, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl. Neudamm near Frankfurt a.d. Oder (Debno in Poland) 21.1.1863 — Berlin 18.4.1930. German Central Asian Scholar. Museum Director in Berlin. His parents are not named, in 1873 the family moved to Berlin, where he attended Französisches Gymnasium (as also Le Coq), and from 1883 studied at…
MÜLLER, Friedrich Max (later used “Max Müller” as a surname). Dessau 6.12.1823 — Oxford 28.10.1900. German Indologist, Linguist and Scholar of Comparative Religion in England. Professor in Oxford. Son of the poet Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827) and Adelheid Basedow (1800–1883), grew up in the small Saxonian principality of Anhalt-Dessau. After Nikolaischule…
MÜLLER, Friedrich. Jemnick (Jemníky), Kr. Butzlau, Bohemia (Czechia) 6.3.1834 — Vienna 25.5.1898. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Professor in Vienna. Born in a poor family in Bohemia, where his father, Friedrich Müller, was the chemist of a small sulphuric acid factory, grew up in Rotz, Niederösterreich. His mother was Ursula…
MOUSSET, Louis-Marie. Sanzay (Deux-Sèvres) 7.2.1808 — Pondichéry 8.2.1888. Father. French Tamil Scholar, Missionary in South India. Ordained 1831 (or 18344) in Poitiers and left to India 1835. Worked in Madurai and from 1844 Pondichéry, teaching 40 years at a seminary. Collaborated in Tamil lexicographical work with —> L. S. Dupuis…
MOULTON, James Hope. Richmond, Surrey 11.10.1863 — on sea off Corsica 7.4.1917. Rev. British Iranian Scholar. Professor in Manchester. Son of Rev. William Fiddian Moulton (1835–1898), a minister, teacher and biblical scholar, and Hannah Hope, educated at Leys School in Cambridge. Studies at King’s College, Cambridge, fellow 1888-94. Ordained 1886…
MORRIS, John Carnac. Madras (or Ootacamund) 16.10.1798 — Jersey 2.8.1858. British Civil Servant and Telugu Scholar in South India. Son of John Morris (1763?–1840), of Bombay Civil Service, and Sarah Mackay, also his five younger brothers served E.I.C. Midshipman in Royal Navy in 1813-15, then at Haileybury 1815-17. In 1818…
MORINI, Giuseppe. 18?? — 1???. Italian interested in Sanskrit, fl. in the 1880s. One G. Morini (1842–1923) was gymnasium professor in Faenza in 1873, when he published the textbook Precetti di letteratura italiana. He was a friend of Giosue Carducci. Publications: Vālmīki. Il lamento dei genitori di Jajñadatta; brano del…
MORISON, James. 1852 — 1935. British Indologist. Studies at Oxford (under Macdonell) and Vienna. Ph.D. 1893 Vienna (apparently under Bühler). From 1914 Librarian of Indian Institute at Oxford, also teaching. Apparently he had served in India as IA 24, 1895 contains his translation of A. Barth’s article. Married. Publications: Diss. Der elfte…
MORELAND, William Harrison. Belfast 13.7.1868 — Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 28.9.1938. British (Anglo-Irish) Historian of Islamic India. Born in Northern Ireland, son of the elder W. H. Moreland and Emily McGowan. Educated 1881-86 at Clifton College, Somerset. In 1886 accepted to I.C.S., studied law and other subjects at Cambridge (LL.B. 1889…
MORDTMANN, Andreas David. Hamburg 11.2.1811 — Constantinople 30.12.1879. German Diplomat, Oriental Scholar and Epigraphist. Lived in Constantinople from 1845. Son of Jens Mordtmann (1786-1829), worker and shopkeeper, and Anna Peiniger (1794-1813). Educated at Johanneum in Hamburg. Lost early his parents and had to earn his living by giving private lessons…