PETROVIĆ, Svetozar. Karlovac 28.6.1931 — Novi Sad 23.10.2005. Croatian Scholar of Literature. Graduated from Zagreb 1956, also studied Indology at Allahabad. Ph.D. 1966 in Croatian literature. In 1959-70 Assistant and Docent of Yugoslavian Literature at Zagreb. In 1970-77 Professor of Literature at Novi Sad and from 1977 at Belgrade. Retired…
PELLY, Richard Lawrence. Coldharbour, Surrey 18.7.1886 — Salisbury, Wiltshire 7.4.1976. Rev. British. Son of Rev. Canon Richard Arnold Pelly (1856–1949) and Margaret Jane Buxton (1859–1903). Educated at Marlborough College. Studies at Cambridge (Clare College), B.A. 1910, M.A. 1912. In 1915-18 served as army chaplain. In 1918-26 Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College…
PARRINDER, Edward Geoffrey Simons. New Barnet, Hertfordshire 10.4.1910 — 16.6.2005. British Scholar of Comparative Religion. Methodist minister. Son of a glove dealer, of a practising Wesleyan Methodist family. Educated in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, when 16 began working as a railway booking clerk. Interested in religion and mission studied 1929-32 at Richmond…
NEUBAUER, Edwin. 1??? — . Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1931 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Indisches Privatleben im Spiegel der Jātakas.Manuscript 1931. Sources: Diss. in Janert; nothing in internet.
MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich (Fëdor Ivanovič Miller). Herford, Westfalen 29.10.1705 — Moscow 11/22.10.1783. German Historian, Ethnograph and Explorer of Siberia in Russia. Son of gymnasium director Thomas Müller and Anna Maria Bode. Gymnasium in Herford, studied at Rinteln and Leipzig (Greman Wikip., in Russianversion Rinteln and Halle), mainly philosophy and history. In…
MORRETTA, Angelo (Dan Petraşincu). 1910 — 1997. Italian-Romanian Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. From 1951 living in Rome, probably died there. Publications: Gli dei dell’ India: breve enciclopedia illustrata del pantheon indù. 364 p. Milano 1966. – Il pensiero vedanta. 396 p. Studi contemporanei 6.Rome 1968. – La parola e il silenzio. Una…
MONNA, Maria Cornelia. the Hague 16.6.1904 — ????. Dutch. Daughter of Willem Cornelis Monna and Antje Maria van der Marel. Publications: The Gathas of Zarathustra. A reconstruction of the text. 199 p. Amsterdam 1978. Sources: Birth and book only in Internet.
MOCKLER, Edward. Belgaum 18.9.1842 — Guernsey 4.3.1927. British Colonial Officer. Son of Surgeon-Major Edward Mockler, Sr. (1810–1887) and Ann Sarah Pritchard (d. 1845). Joined Indian Army in 1859. From 1866 mainly in political offices, first in Aden, from 1873 in Makran. From 1979 Assistant to the Governor General’s Agent for…
MILBURN, Robert Gordon. 30.5.1870 — 1968. Rev. British Missionary in India. After ordination worked as priest in London. Went to India as missionary, but lost his faith and turned to teaching. Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta, 1906-14. Also Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy at Calcutta University. Married Mary. Publications: England and…
MASCARÓ FORNÉS, Joan (Juan Mascaro). Santa Margalica / Santa Margarita, Mallorca 8.12.1897 — Comberton, Cambridge, U.K. 19.3.1987. Spanish (Catalonian) Poet, Translator and Philologist. Son of a farmer family. School in Palma, then worked in British consulate in Palma. Studied English, Sanskrit and Pāli at Cambridge and in Jaffna. From 1933…