NÖLDEKE, Theodor Eduard. Harburg near Hamburg 2.3.1836 — Karlsruhe 25.12.1930. German Semitic Scholar, also interested in Iranian. Professor in Kiel and Strassburg. Son of Carl Nöldeke (1800–1866), a teacher, then rector of gymnasium, and Auguste Klingemann (1802–1846), educated in Harburg and Lingen. Studies at Göttingen, mainly under Ewald, apparently also…
NOBLE, Peter Scott. 17.10.1899 — 12.5.1987. Sir. British Classical Scholar with interest in Indology. Educated in Aberdeen (Fraserburgh Academy). Studies of Classics at Aberdeen (1917-19 in army) and Cambridge (St.John’s College), soon also Sanskrit under E. J. Rapson and comparative linguistics under P. Giles. B.A. 1923, M.A. Fellow of St.John’s…
NÈVE, Félix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph. Ath 13.6.1816 — Leuven 23.5.1893. Belgian Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Professor in Louvain (Leuven). Son of merchant Auguste Nève and Marie Delwarde, the family moved early to Lille where he went to school. From 1834 among the first students at Louvain, just reestablished as a Catholic French-speaking university…
NASILOV, Vladimir Mihajlovič. Zarajsk, Gub. Rjazan 15.(27.)5.1893 — Moscow 20.5.1970. Russian Central Asian Scholar, specialist of Uigur (ancient and modern). Son of a priest, educated in Zarajsk. Graduated 1917 from Lazarevskij Institut, Moscow. In 1928-30 naučnyj sotrudnik at Institute of Peoples of Soviet Union, in 1930-35 taught at Communist University…
MUUSSES, Martha Adriana. Purmerend, North Holland 27.9.1894 — Laren, North Holland 27.10.1981. Dutch Indologist. Daughter of Jan Muusses (1847–1909), a bookseller, and Trijnte Ruardi (1860–1920). Matriculated from Hoorn, started study of Dutch philology at Utrecht, soon became student of Caland. Ph.D. 1920 Utrecht, with a diss. on sacred cows. For…
MURRAY, Alexander. Dunkitterick, Kirkcudbrightshire 22.10.1775 — Edinburgh 15.4.1813. Rev. British (Scottish) Philologist and Oriental Scholar. Son of Robert Murray, an elderly shepherd and farm labourer. Of modest origin, but talented, he was admitted to Edinburgh University, although he had hardly any formal education, and thus became a priest. Assistant, then…
MURPHY, Robert Xavier. 1803 — Kingstown, Dublin 26.2.1857. Irish Teacher, Journalist, Classical and Oriental Scholar in India. Roman Catholic from Dublin. “He went out to Bombay as a master under the Bombay Native Education Society [1826 already there]; a classical scholar and quick acquiring Oriental languages. Edited the Bombay Gazette,…
MÜLLER-HESS, Eduard (until 1882 E. Müller). Berlin 14.4.1853 — Bern 9.7.1923. German Indologist in Switzerland. Professor in Bern. Son of Captain Eduard Müller and Valérie Geigy (Swiss from Basel). After school in Berlin studies of Indology and comparative linguistics at Berlin, Tübingen and Leipzig, then further studies of Indology, English…
MÜLLER, Marcus Joseph. Kempten, Swabia 3.6.1809 — Munich 28.3.1874. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar, Pioneer of Pahlavi Philology. Professor in Munich. Son of a gymnasium teacher. Gymnasium in Augsburg. Studies at Munich, i.al. under O. Frank, then worked as schoolteacher. Further studies in Leiden and Paris from 1833, where he also…
MÜLLER, Karl Otfried. Brieg, Silesia (now Brzeg in Poland) 28.8.1797 — Athens 1.8.1840. German Philologist. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Karl Daniel Müller (1773–1858), a chaplain of Prussian army, and Juliane Linke (1774–1858), a pietist home. After gymnasium in Brieg studies from 1814 at Breslau: classical philology, philosophy, history, Hebrew,…