NICHOLSON, Sydney. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British (?) Missionary in India. From 1897 worked in South India, e.g. in Cuddapah (Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh) for London Missionary Society (still there 1915). Publications: “Women’s Cloths in the Cuddapa District, South India”, Man 20, 1920, 149-152; “Social Organization of the Mālas – An Outcaste Indian People”, JRAnthrInst 56,…
NESPITAL, Helmut Ernst Robert. Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg 4.8.1936 — Berlin 10.5.2001. German Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Professor in Bamberg. Son of Fritz Nespital (1888–1969) und Elfriede Thiel. Grew up in Berlin. Studied from 1955 at Humboldt University in Berlin (East), began with philosophy, but soon turned to Oriental languages (Indian, Persian, Turkish, Arabic).…
NAU, François-Nicolas. Thil (Meurthe-et-Moselle) 13.5.1864 — Paris 2.9.1931. French Catholic Priest and Syrologist. Son of the elder François-Nicolas Nau and Marguerite Longueville. After primary school in Longwy attended petit séminaire of Notre-Dame des Champs in Paris, then from 1882 Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. Baccalaureate in theology and canonic law 1887,…
NALBANDJAN, Georgi Mkrtichi (Russian Georgij Mkrtyčevič N.). Čita 5.1.1926 — Yerevan 5.11.1998. Armenian Iranian Scholar. Son of a worker. Graduated 1951 in Erevan. Kand. filol. nauk 1955, Docent 1961, Dr. 1972, Professor 1973. From 1952 taught at University of Erevan, from 1963 with chair of Oriental philology. Publications: At least 60…
MYER, Prudence R. 21.12.1920 — 27.4.2001. Miss. U.S. Art Historian. Ph.D. New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College (1956), Professor of Art at Tulane University (1959/63), Associate Professor of Art at University of California, Santa Barbara (1966/68). Publications: Diss. Landscape Elements in the Earlier Caves…
MUIRHEAD-THOMSON, Robert Charles. Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire 2.5.1914 — 4.10.2000. British Entomologist. Son of Rev. John Muirhead-Thomson. Educated at Edinburgh and Kelvinside Academies. From 1932 studies of botany and zoology at Glasgow, B.Sc. 1936 in Zoology. D.Sc. 1942. Specializing on mosquito biology worked at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and…
MÜLLER, Gerhard Heinrich. 1840 — 19??. German Teacher of Classics. In 1876/83 at Wongrowitz gymnasium in Posen (now Wągrowiec in Poland), 1898/1900 at Saargemünd Gymnasium (now Sarreguemines in Lorraine). Married, at least one son. Publications: Mainly wrote on classical philology. – “Das Genus der Indogermanen und seine ursprüngliche Bedeutung”, IF 8, 1898, 304-315.…
MOSZKOWSKI, Max Gustav. Breslau 12.8.1873 — Rio de Janeiro 1939. German Physician, Anthropologist and Collector. M.D. 1899 Breslau. In 1907-11 in Ceylon, Sumatra and western New Guinea, collected botanical and zoological specimens, measured skulls and studied tropical diseases. Worked as physician in Berlin. Publications: “Among the last Vẹddas”, JRAS-CB21:61, 1908, 59-68.…
MOSS(-BLUNDELL), Arthur Spence. Hessle near Hull 1853 — Winchester, Hampshite 5.12.1950 (or 5.11.). British Engineer in Sri Lanka. Son of William Henry Moss (1814–1874), an attorney, and Eliza Charlotte Blundell. From 1874 studied civil engineering in Hull. In 1883 went from Ceylon to Selangot to build the railway line from Kuala…
MORRIS, Charles 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 officer of 3rd Gurkha Rifles learned Nepali. Explored Chinese Central Asia. Retired as Major. From 1938 Professor of English Literature at Keio University and Lecturer…