MATERNOVÁ, Pavla (née Škampová). Prague 6.3.1858 — Prague 19.3.1923. Czech Author, Critic and Translator. Worked as teacher. Publications: Transl. in Czech: Bhagavadgita. 136 p. Klatovy 1920 (probably from English). – Much unrelated to India, translations from English, Russian and Polish. Sources: Long article in *Czech Wikipedia, with photo.
MARTINI, François. Can Tho, Vietnam, near Cambodian border 20.5.1895 — 18.6.1965. French Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of Corsican father and Cambodian mother. Studied law and philosophy, participated in the WW I (wounded) and after war studied languages in Paris, soon Sanskrit under S. Lévi. Diplom of Thai at…
MARTIN, W. B. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Deputy Collector and Magistrate, Madhipárah, Bhagalpur (1875), later of Begusarai (1892), in Bihar. Sometimes given three initials as J. W. B. Martin. Publications: “On the Archaeological Remains of Barantpur in Zila’ Bhágalpúr”, ProcASB 1872, 175-177. – Letter forwarding an Inscription found at Srinagar…
MARTIN, Claude. Lyon 5.1.1735 — Lucknow 13.9.1800. French Officer in India. Born in a modest middle class family, son of Fleury Martin (1708–1735), a casket maker, and Anne Vaginay (1702–1735). After school in Lyon apprenticed to a local silk weaver, but in 1751 he enlisted as a soldier in French…
MARSHALL, William Elliot. 1826? — Torquay, Devon 21.11.1888. British Colonial Officer and Anthropologist in India. Son of an officer, educated at Rugby. Lieutenant-Colonel of Bengal Staff Corps (1873). Retired as Major-General. Married 1861 Caroline Sylvia Hardy (1840–1926), one daughter, one son. During a furlough in Ootacamund he became interested in Todas…
MARSHALL, George Turnbull. Calcutta 13.12.1803 — at sea, St.Ives Bay, Cornwall 10.12.1854. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of William Hodney Marshall and Frances Turnbull. Arrived c. 1830. Major 1847, Lieutenant-Colonel 1852. In 1838-52 Secretary of the College of Fort William in Calcutta (the last holder of this office before the…
MARSDEN, Edmund. Bangalore 13.2.1848 — Hampstead, London 11.11.1932. British author of textbooks, some of which were also translated into Hindī, Tamil and other languages. Son of an elder S.M. and Mary Anne Hudlow (d. 1858 in Madras). In 1893 he belonged to Madras Department of Public Instruction (inspector of schools),…
MARKGRAF, Lothar August Walter (Samaṇero Dhammānusari). 1865 — Flanders fall 1915. Swiss Bauddha. In 1907 went to Burma. Ordained samaṇera 1908 in Rangoon by Nyāyatiloka, but returned after half a year to lay life and returned to Europe. From 1909 ran his own publishing house in Breslau, publishing Buddhist books by…
MANTEGAZZA, Paolo. Monza, Lombardy 31.10.1831 — San Terenzo, Lerici, Liguria 28.8.1910. Italian Physician, Author and Traveller, also a Darwinian Anthropologist. Son of Giovanni Battista Mantegazza and Laura Solar, a wealthy family. The mother was known as a social reformer and friend of Garibaldi. Studies at Pisa and Milano, M.D. 1854…
MAN, Edward Garnet. Halstead, Kent 8.2.1837 — Godalming, Surrey 14.11.1920. British Civil Servant in Bengal and Burma. Son of Harry Stoe Man (1783–1848) and Louisa Caroline Fowle (1795–1878). After early stay in business in Calcutta (during the 1857 uprising served with 3rd Sikh Cavalry) returned and studied at Lincoln’s Inn,…