NOLTE, Hans Josef. Paderborn 20.7.1857 — Papenburg, Emsland 4.8.1916. German Student of IE Linguistics. From Paderborn. Ph.D. 1894 Erlangen. Worked as teacher, in 1904-16 Director of Papenburg Realgymnasium. Publications: Diss. Die Anfänge des Ackerbaus, Jäger- und Hirtenlebens. Ein Beitrag zur indogermanischen Altertumskunde. 92 p. Marburg 1894. Sources: Diss. in Janert;…
NOBLE, Margaret Elizabeth (Sister Nivedita). Dungannon, county Tyrone 28.10.1867 — Darjeeling 13.10.1911. Irish follower of Vivekananda. No scholar. Daughter of Samuel Richmond Noble (d. 1877), a linen draper, later Protestant priest, of Scottish descent, and Mary Isabel Hamilton. In 1871-77 in England, after father’s death back to Ireland and educated…
MÜLLER, Niklas (Nikolaus). Mainz 6.5.1770 (not 14.5.) — Mainz 14.6.1851. Germain Painter and Scholar. Son of shopkeeper Johann Müller (d. 1804) and Katharina Erlenbach, grew up in Mainz. Studies at Mainz University, graduated 1788. Worked as theatre painter, accepted with enthusiasm the ideas of French Revolution. In 1793-94 studies in…
MOUW, Johan Andréas dèr (nom-de-plume Dèr Mouw or Adwaita). Westerwoort near Arnhem 24.7.1863 — ’s-Gravenhage 8.7.1919. Dutch Poet and Philosopher. Son of Jacobus Cornelis dèr Mouw (orig. Dermauw) and Anna Elisabetha Zillinger. Educated in Deventer, from 1883 studies of classical languages, philosophy, and Sanskrit (under Kern) at Leiden. Ph.D. 1887,…
MORINI, Giuseppe. 18?? — 1???. Italian interested in Sanskrit, fl. in the 1880s. One G. Morini (1842–1923) was gymnasium professor in Faenza in 1873, when he published the textbook Precetti di letteratura italiana. He was a friend of Giosue Carducci. Publications: Vālmīki. Il lamento dei genitori di Jajñadatta; brano del…
MICHAELIS, Walther Hugo. 1873 — 1967. German Student of Indology or of IE Linguistics. Apparently among the last students of Weber. Ph.D. 1898 Berlin. One Dr. W. Michaelis (2.2.1873–27.3.1967) was in 1931-35 Director of Francke Foundation in Halle and member of the NSDAP. I have included him as Janert lists his…
MERKEL, Josef. Mainz 4.8.1788 — 1866. German Teacher and Librarian interested in Sanskrit. From 1810 teacher at Philosophisches Lehrinstitut in Aschaffenburg, from 1818 Professor at local Lyceum. From 1828 also Hofbibliothekar in Aschaffenburg. Retired in old age. Publications: Translated Colebrooke’s essay “On the vedas”, published as an appendix to Bopp’s…
MENRAD, Joseph. 22.3.1861 — 1929 (or 1928?). German (Bavarian) Schoolteacher interested in Indology. School and also studies in Munich (Sanskrit and Classics). Ph.D. Teacher in gymnasiums in different places in Bavaria, in the 1890s in Burghausen, finally school director of Willibald-Gymnasium in Eichstätt (1921-26). He began the complete German translation…
MASING, Ferdinand. Osinovka, Govt. Saratov 14/26.7.1849 — St.Petersburg 8/20.6.1918. German (of Estonia) Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Son of Ferdinand Magnus Masing (1815–1887), minister among Volga Germans in Osinovka, and Emilie Petsch (1821–1900), cousin of —> Leonhard Masing. After gymnasium in Arensburg (now Kuressaare in Estonia) he studied…
MARTINETTI, Pier Federico Giuseppe Celestino Mario (Piero). Ponte Canavese (Turin) 21.8.1872 — Cuorgnè (Turin) 23.3.1943. Italian Philosopher interested in Indian Thought. Son of an anticlerical advocate, Francesco Martinetti (1846–1921) and Rosalia Bertogliatti, educated in Ivrea. Studied at Turin (i.al. under Flechia), Ph.D. there 1893. After further studies in Leipzig taught…