OLIVIER, Georges. Paris 6.9.1912 — 13.3.1996. French Anthropologist. Dr.méd. 1938 Paris. Military surgeon in Indochine. Dr.-es-sc. 1955 Paris. From 1953 Professeur agrégé d’anatomie at Lille, from 1963 Prof. agr. d’anthropologie in Paris. In 1969 founded the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology (Faculté de sciences, Paris). Retired 1978. Also a noted anatomist.…
O’BRIEN, Aubrey John. Lahore 5.12.1870 — Kensington, London 31.8.1930.British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of —> Edward O’Brien (1840–1893) and Mary Oclanis Lamb (1848–1939). After Dover College studies at Sandhurst. Served first in British army, then in India briefly in Maratha Light Infantry and 29 years in the Punjab…
NUSSBAUM, Louis-Frédéric Emmanuel (nom-de-plume Louis Frédéric). Paris 17.12.1923 —Quincy-sous-Sénart near Paris 24.11.1996. French Artist, Art Historian and Writer. Worked as illustrator, travelled in North Africa. Interested in Asia he studied at Sorbonne and É.P.H.É. Did not enter academic career and remained free author. Knew i.al. Sanskrit, Hindi and Japanese, Publications: Dans…
NORRIS, William. 1654? (Wikipedia c. 1658) — on sea 10.10.1702. Sir, First Bart. (1898). British Diplomat. Son of Thomas Norris of Speke Hall, Lancashire, and Katherine Garraway. M.P. for Liverpool 1695-1701 (Whig, succeeded his elder brother). In 1698-1702 he led an embassy to Aurangzeb for both William III and the…
NESPITAL, Helmut Ernst Robert. Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg 4.8.1936 — Berlin 10.5.2001. German Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Professor in Bamberg. Son of Fritz N. und Elfriede Thiel. Grew up in Berlin. Studied at Humbold University in Berlin (East), began with philosophy, but soon turned to Oriental languages (Indian, Persian, Turkish, Arabic). M.A. 1960 Berlin.…
NAU, François-Nicolas. Thil (Meurthe-et-Moselle) 13.5.1864 — Paris 2.9.1931. French Catholic Priest and Syrologist. Son of the elder François-Nicolas Nau and Marguerite Longueville. After primary school in Longwy attended petit séminaire of Notre-Dame des Champs in Paris, then from 1882 Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. Baccalaureate in theology and canonic law 1887,…
MUIRHEAD-THOMSON, Robert Charles. Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire 2.5.1914 — 4.10.2000. British Entomologist. Son of Rev. John M.-Th. Educated at Edinburgh and Kelvinside Academies. From 1932 studies of botany and zoology at Glasgow, B.Sc. 1936 in Zoology. D.Sc. 1942. Specializing on mosquito biology worked at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and…
MÜLLER, Gerhard Heinrich. 18?? — 19??. German Teacher of Classics. In 1876/83 at Wongrowitz gymnasium in Posen (now Wągrowiec in Poland), 1898/1900 at Saargemünd Gymnasium (now Sarreguemines in Lorraine). Married, at least one son. Publications: Mainly wrote on classical philology. – “Das Genus der Indogermanen und seine ursprüngliche Bedeutung”, IF 8, 1898, 304-315.…
MOSZKOWSKI, Max. Breslau 12.8.1873 — Rio de Janeiro 1939. German Physician, Anthropologist and Collector. M.D. 1899 Breslau. In 1907 in Ceylon, Sumatra and western New Guinea, collected botanical and zoological specimens, measured skulls and studied tropical diseases. Worked as physician in Berlin. Publications: “Among the last Vẹddas”, JRAS-CB21:61, 1908, 59-68. –…
MOSS(-BLUNDELL), Arthur Spence. Hessle near Hull 1853 — Winchester, Hampshite 5.12.1950. British Engineer in Sri Lanka. Son of William Henry Moss and Eliza Charlotte Blundell. In 1883 went from Ceylon to Selangot to build the railway line from Kuala Lumpur to Bukit Kuda. Married 1880 Grace Eveleigh Marshall (b. 1860), three…