MILLER, Barbara Stoler. New York 8.8.1940 — New York 19.4.1993. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New York. Daughter of Sara Stoler. Educated at Great Neck High School (where Wendy Doniger was her classmate). Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964). Ph.D. 1968 at University of Pennsylvania under W.…
MICHELSON, Truman H. New Rochelle, NY 11.8.1879 — Washington, DC 26.7.1938. U.S. Ethnologist and Linguist, interested in MIA. Professor in Washington, DC. Son of physicist Albert Michelson (1852–1937, Nobel Prize 1907) and Margaret McLean Hemingway. Educated at Harvard: A.B. 1902, A.M. 1903, Ph.D. 1904. In 1904-05 further studies at Leipzig…
MEYER, Johann Jakob. Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan 25.4.1870 — Chur 2.4.1939. German (U.S.) Indologist. Born in an outlying German colony in a poor and big family of German immigrants, being the oldest child of Johann Michael Meyer, of Franconian origin, and Anna Katharina Engel. He was able to enter college…
MEADER, Clarence Linton. Battle Creek, Mich. 12.8.1868 — Garden Grove, CA 1.7.1967. U.S. Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of John Murray Meader and Maria A. Fredericks. Studies at University of Michigan: A.B. 1891, Ph.D. 1902. Further studies at American School in Athens in 1892, at Bonn in 1893, at Munich…
MAGOUN, Herbert William. Bath, co. Sagadahoc, Maine 17.2.1856 — Belmont, Mass. 8.1. 1956. U.S. Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of Thomas P. I. Magoun and Maria Littlefield. Studies at Iowa (now Grinnell) College (A.B. 1879, A.M. 1882). In 1879-80 Assistant Principal of High School in Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1880-81 Principal of…
LUQUIENS, Jules. Lausanne 24.1.1845 — Salem, Ohio 23.8.1899. Swiss Linguist, Romance and Iranian Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in New Haven. After school in Lausanne studied at Geneva and was ordained priest in 1866. In 1868 came to the U.S.A. and worked as schoolteacher in New York and Cincinnati. In…
LOVEJOY, Arthur Oncken. Berlin 10.10.1873 — Baltimore 30.12.1962. U.S. Philosopher. Son of W.W.L., a physician who after his wife’s suicide turned into a clergyman, lost early his mother, Sara Oncken (d. 1875). Studied philosophy at Berkeley and Harvard (William James), but never completed a Ph.D. Taught short periods at different…
LOTSPEICH, Claude Meek. Knoxville, Tenn. 28.6.1880 — Cincinnati, Ohio 13.4.1966. U.S. Linguist. Son of Jacob Orville L. (1855–1900) and Ida Sevier Meek (1858–1894). Studies at Leipzig. Ph.D. For 45 years he was Professor of Comparative and English Philology at University of Cincinnati. Married 1907 Helen Wilson Gibbons (1881–1955), four sons…
LINDSAY, Thomas Bond. New York 28.4.1853 — Glenview, KY 22.7.1909. U.S. Philologist. Professor in Boston. Son of John W. Lindsay. Studies in 1865-68 at Genessee Wesleyan Seminar, 1869 Boston Latin School, M.A. 1874 American Wesleyan University. In 1874-77 further studies in Germany. Ph.D. 1882 Boston University. In 1877-88 taught at…
KING, Winston Lee. Avilla, Ind. 30.8.1907 — Madison, Wisc. 15.2.1975. U.S. Scholar of Comparative Religion. Methodist priest. Born in a farm, son of Alfred Hiram K. and Alberta Bodenhafer. Educated at Ashburry College (A.B. 1929), Andover Newton Theological Seminar (B.D. 1936) and Harvard (S.M.T. 1938). Ph.D. 1940 Harvard. After four…