MORRIS, John. 1895 — 13.12.1980. British Colonial Officer, Journalist and Social Anthropologist in India. Served in army in 1915-34, after WW I in India. As Gurkha officer learned Nepali. Retired as Major. From 1938 Professor of English Literature at Keio University and Lecturer at Imperial and Bunrika Universities in Tokyo.…
MORÉCHAND, Guy. Paris 22.3.1923 — Le Chesnay (Yvelines) 24.2.2002. French Anthropologist. After WW II worked as journalist and studied ethnology and history of religions. Licencié ès lettres 1948 in Anthropology. Ph.D. 1966 Paris. From 1950 member of É.F.É.O. in Hanoi, 1957-63 in Japan, later in Paris and Pondicherry. Retired 1980.…
MONTEITH, William. Abbey parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire 22.6.1790 — London 18.4.1864. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Diplomat and Historian in India. Major-General (1841). Son of William Monteith and Janet Goodwin. From 1809 Lieutenant in Madras Engineers, Captain 1817, Colonel 1839. In 1810 member of Malcolm’s embassy to Persia, remained there and served…
MONFRINI, Stefano. 1885 — 1960. Italian Catholic Missionary in India. From 1910 sixteen years missionary among Santals. Publications: La Tribù dei Santal. 143 p. Milano 1929. – Account of the history of Santal mission in M. E. Modaelli, L’India. Milano 1937, 244-351. Sources: Scanty stray notes in Internet; missing in Porru.
MOLZ, Marcellinus (born Otto Molz). Kappel, Freiburg i. Br. 7.8.1873 — St.Nazianz near Milwaukee, Wisconsin 4.10.1961. S.D.S. Father. German Catholic Missionary in India. Son of Johann Molz, a farmer and local Mayor, and Maria Salenbacher. In 1885 both parents died and he decided to take religious career. After education in Sasbach…
MITCHELL, Alfred Norval. 18.12.1906 — 1988. British Civil Servant in India. Joined I.C.S. in 1930, 1934 transferred to Political Service. Until 1947 Administrator of Bastar State. After a time in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) Secretary and Registrar of St.Andrews University, retired 1972. O.B.E. Married, at least one son. Publications: A Grammar of…
MILWARD, Marguerite (née Rosa Marguerite Edge). Near Birmingham 1873 — 10/11.2.1953. British Artist. Daughter of Charles Alerton Edge, an architect. Educated at the art schools of Birmingham and Bromsgrove, further studies in Paris. Before WW I in Sri Lanka, in 1926 first visit to India. “As a sculptress she travelled…
MIGOT, André. Paris 28.2.1892 — Villejuif 17.2.1967. French Physician and Traveller. Dr.med. In WW I served as medical officer. Then physician in Paris, during holidays climbing in the Alps and Pyrenees. In 1938-39 visited Afghanistan and India. During WW II worked in occupied Paris, after war went to Indochina and…
MICHELS, Victor Karl Theodor. Stassfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt 3.7.1866 — Jena 4.2.1929. German Germanist and Linguist. Professor in Jena. Son of factory director Friedrich (Fritz) M. (1835–1872) and Martha Kullak. Gymnasium and from 1884 studies in Berlin, concentrated on Germanistics, Linguistics and philosophy (Deussen). From 1885 continued at Heidelberg (Osthoff et al.)…
MEZGER, Fritz. Ilsfeld bei Heilbronn 15.10.1893 — King of Prussia near Philadelphia, PA 9.6.1979. German Linguist in the U.S.A. Matriculated 1911, then studies of modern philology and comparative IE at Tübingen. Participated in WW I, wounded. Continued his studies at Munich and Berlin. Ph.D. 1921 Berlin (diss. on Old English).…