OLIPHANT, Samuel Grant. Camden co., NJ 13.3.1864 — 1936. U.S. Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of William Oliphant and Mary Warner Clevenger. Studied classics at Princeton, A.B. 1891, M.A. 1894. Worked as teacher of Greek and Latin. In 1902-07 graduate studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Johns Hopkins (Bloomfield), Ph.D.…
NOVIKOVA, Vera Aleksandrovna. Moscow 16.2.1918 — 10.4.1972. Russian Indologist, specialist of Bengali. Daughter of an official, graduated 1940 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1953, Docent 1956. Naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute, Leningrad, in 1949-50, taught Indian Philology at Leningrad University from 1952. Publications: At least 50 publications, i.al. – Kand.diss.…
MOSKALEV, Vladimir Sergeevič. Lugansk (Luhansk in Ukraine) 15/28.7.1906 — 14.7.1982. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist, specialist of Urdu. Son of an official, graduated 1934 from Oriental Institute in Moscow. Kand. filo. nauk 1953, Docent 1955. In 1937-39 Head of Near Eastern section at Oriental Institute, in 1940-53 in Red Army, in 1953-56…
MILTNER, Vladimír. Plzeň 6.7.1933 — Mathura 13.1.1997. Czech Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar). After gymnasium in Karlovy Vary from 1952 studies at Prague. Ph.D. 1967 Prague. From 1967 worked as research scholar of the Czech Academy, first three years in Paris, with a long break for political reasons from the…
MICHALSKI(-IWIEŃSKI), Stanisław Franciszek. Tarnogród, prov. Lublin 29.1.1881 — Łodz 8.8.1961. Polish Indologist. Professor in Łodz. Son of Seweryn Michalski, a physician, and Stanisława Smalski. Matriculated 1904 from Biała Siedlecka. Studies at Warsaw, then Indology at Vienna (L. v. Schroeder and P. Kretschmer), Ph.D. 1912. Then briefly further studies at Göttingen…
MEILE, Pierre. Asnières near Paris 23.2.1911 — Saint-Georges-de-Dionne (Charente-Maritime) 31.7.1963. French Indologist (Tamil Scholar). After École normale supérieure he became one of the last students of S. Lévi, also studied under Foucher, Bloch, Vendryes, Meillet, and Benveniste. Agrégé de grammaire 1935. In 1936-39 further studies in India, mainly at Santiniketan…
MALLMANN, Marie-Thérèse Hélène Henriette Suzanne de. Paris 6.10.1909 — Château-d’Œx, Canton Vaud, Switzerland 21.9.1975. French Indologist and Art Historian. Daughter of Émile de Mallmann (1863–1914) and Marie-Thérèse von Liebig (1871–1944). Before the war started studies at É.P.H.É. (Foucher, Przyluski and Mus, diplôme 1948) and École de Louvre (Hackin, Grousset and…
FAY, Edwin Whitfield. Minden, Louisiana 1.1.1865 — Pittsburgh, PA 17.2.1920. U.S. Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Austin. Son of Edwin Hedge Fay (1832–1898), a noted educator, and Sarah Elizabeth Shields, attended with a few other boys on a special permission the girls’ school, Silliman Institute, where his father was the…
LUBOCKAJA, Natal’ja Julianovna. Moscow 24.2.1933 — 4.1.1985. Russian Indologist. Daughter of an official. Graduated 1955 from Moscow National Pedagogical Institute, 1958 passed foreign language courses. Kand. ist. nauk 1972. In 1957-76 naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute of Soviet Academy in Moscow. Publications: About 10 publications, e.g.: – Kand diss. Drevneindijsk.…
LOMAN, Johannes Reinoud Abraham. Amsterdam 3.11.1908 — 1976. Dutch Indologist. Son of Abraham Dirk Loman (1868–1954), a composer, and Gerarda Alida Lütkeman (1869–1942), an opera singer. Studied history at Amsterdam and worked as teacher of history. After the WW II studies of Indology under Scharpé, Galestin and van Lohuizen-de Leeuw.…