OLDHAM, Charles Frederick Wood. Liverpool 2.1.1832 — Great Bealings, Suffolk 25.3.1913 (hardly New Zealand 1913/14). British Physician and Indologist. Son of Searless Wood Oldham (1793–1843) and his wife Hannah. Studies in St. George’s Hospital in London, from 1858 member of Royal College of Surgeons of England. From 1859 in North…
NICHOLSON, B. A. R. 1??? — 1???. British Physician in Bombay Medical Service. M.D. Active as early as 1832, serving in Bhooj (1836) Surat (1840) and Rajkote (1843/48). Married Catherine (d. 1843). Publications: Brief papers in Transactions of Bombay Geogr. Soc. 1844, 111, JBRAS 1, 1844, Tr. of Linnean Soc.…
MÜLLER, Reinhold Franz Gustav. Berlin 16.4.1882 — Einsiedel bei Chemnitz 2.2.1966. German (East) Indologist and Physician. Son of a Gustav Müller (1851–1941), a schoolteacher. Grew up in Berlin, often spent summers in Innsbruck. In 1902-07 studies of medicine at Berlin and Innsbruck, then Assistant at Greifswald until 1911. Dr.med. 1909…
MUCH, Hans. Zechlin/Neuruppin, Brandenburg 24.3.1880 — Hamburg 28.11.1932. German Bauddha. Son of Rev. Karl Much (1847–1925) and Martha Lindner. Studies of medicine at Marburg, Kiel, Berlin and Würzburg, Dr.med. 1903 Würzburg in the age of 22. Worked in a hospital in Hamburg (Eppendorf Hospital) and conducted succesful research, later as…
MARX, Karl Rudolf. Niesky, Eastern Saxony 1857 — Leh 29.5.1891. German Missionary Physician, Tibetologist and Historian in Ladakh. Dr.med., specialising on ophthalmology. Missionary of the Moravian Mission in Ladakh (Leh) from 1887. An early scholar of the history and archaeology of Ladakh and the teacher of A. H. Francke. Married.…
MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. Dublin 1801? (or 1803) — Sutton, Surrey 6.9.1868. British (Anglo-Irish) Physician, Botanist, Statistician and Historian in India and Asia. Born in a Protestant family in Ireland, son of John Martin and Mary Hawkins. Studied medicine. He came to Ceylon about 1820 and travelled around Indian Ocean as…
MANNING, Thomas. Broome, Norfolk 8.11.1772 — Bath 2.5.1840 [Wikipedia near Dartfors 1840]. British Physician and Traveller in Asia, visited Lhasa. Buckland (with additions):“Son of the Rev. William M. [and Elizabeth Adams], educated at Caius College, Cambridge. Scholar, 1790-95, private tutor, studied mathematics, friend of Porson and Charles Lamb. Studied Chinese…
MANENGO, Andrea. 18?? — 1???. Italian Physician interested in Āyurveda. Studies around 1850. Dr. Med. Worked in Brescia (1852), then in Guastalla. Publications: Susruta Ayurveda, ossia i codici dell’ antica sapienza medica indiana e sua priorita sulla greca. 24 p. Velletri 1892; medical writings. Sources: Title only in Gli studi…
MACPHAIL, James Merry. Shaflesbury, Dorset 1863 — Tisri, Bihar 15.6.1929. British (Scottish) Missionary Physician. Son of Dugald Macphail and Janet Merry. Studies at Glasgow. M.A. 1885, M.D. 1895. A physician of the Santal Mission of the Free Church of Scotland.He was a specialist of eye surgeryand in 1890 founded Bamdah…
LIÉTARD, Gustave Alexandre. Domrémy-la-Pucelle (Vosges, Lorraine) 4.4. 1833 — Plombières-les-Bains (Vosges) 8.2.1904. French Physician and Indologist. Son of a viticulturist, he was educated at College of Toul and studied at Faculté de médecine in Strasbourg. Dr.med. 1858 Strasbourg. At Faculté de lettres he also learned the elements of Sanskrit under…