MENANT, Joachim. Cherbourg 16.4.1820 — Paris 30.8.1899. French Assyriologist, with interest in Iranian religion. Son of Joachim Menant and Amable Boissière, lost his father when 10. Educated in Cherbourg. He became a lawyer (studies at Caen) and worked in administrative positions in different towns (Cherbourg, Vire, Alençon, Lisieux, Evreux, Le…
MAYNE, John Dawson. Dublin 31.12.1828 — Berkshire 1917. British (Irish) Lawyer in India. Son of John Mayne (1793–1828), Barrister-at-law in Dublin who died before his birth, and Anna Johnson (née Graves, 1798–1864). “Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, called to the bar, 1854. Practised at the English bar, 1854-56, at the…
MAJER (Maier), Friedrich. Koskau bei Schleiz 28.4.1772 — Gera 15.5.1818. German Lawyer and Scholar interested in India. Son of a minister. Studied law at Jena from 1791. He was lawyer in Göttingen and PD at Jena, then living in Weimar, in 1804–05 tutor of the heir-apparent Heinrich LXII of Reuss-Schleiz…
MACKINTOSH, James. Aldourie near Inverness 24.10.1765 — London 30.5.1832. Sir. British (Scottish) Lawyer, Statesman and Historian, Civil Servant in India. Son of Captain John Mackintosh and Marjory MacGillivray (1745?–1775), both of old Highland families, lost early his mother and was raised by his grandmother. Educated at Fortrose and at King’s…
LUDLOW, John Malcolm Forbes. Nimach, Madhya Pradesh 8.3.1821 — 17.10.1911. Sir. British Lawyer and Historian. Son of colonel John Ludlow (d. 1821) of Indian army, and Maria Jone Brown. Educated at Merchant Taylor’s School and College Bourbon in Paris, where his mother had moved with children after father’s death. Bachelor-ès-lettres…
LINOSSIER, Raymonde. Lyon 25.3.1897 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 30./31.1./1.2.1930. French Art Historian and Indologist. Lawyer at Paris Cour d’appel. Daughter of Georges L. (1857–1923), Professor of Medicine. In WW I served as nurse, after war began law studies, graduated 1926. Also studied Indology under Lévi. Worked from 1925 as unsalaried attachée in…
LEIST, Burkard Wilhelm. Westen/Aller 12.2.1819 — Jena 31.12.1906. German Historian of Law. Son of Friedrich Wilhelm Leist (1761–1820), official assessor, and Henriette Köring (1791–1874). After school in Brauschweig studied law at Göttingen, Heidelberg and Berlin (Savigny), Dr.iur. 1841 and PD 1842 Göttingen. From 1846 ord. Professor of Law at Basel,…
KOHLER, Josef. Offenburg 9.3.1849 — Berlin-Charlottenburg 3.8.1919. German Legal Scholar interested in India. Son of an elementary school teacher, the elder Josef Kohler (1808–1874) and Amalie Schmieder, educated in Offenburg and Rastatt. Studies of law at Heidelberg and Freiburg, promotion 1873. After some time as attorney in Mannheim became without…
KEITH, Arthur Berriedale. Portobello (Edinburgh) 5.4.1879 — Edinburgh 6.10. 1944. British (Scottish) Indologist and Scholar of Law. Professor in Edinburgh. Son of an advertiser, Davidson Keith (1842–1921), and Margaret Stobie Drysdale (1851–1922), educated at Royal High School. Studies at Edinburgh University (B.A. 1896, M.A. 1897), and from 1897 at Balliol…
HUMPHREYS, Travers Christmas (“Toby”). Ealing, Middlesex 15.2.1901 — London 13.4.1983. British Lawyer and Bauddha. Son of a lawyer, Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), and Zoë Marguerite Neumans (of Belgium). Educated at Malvern College. Studied law at Cambridge (Trinity Hall), 1924 called to the Bar by Inner Temple. Worked as lawyer in various…