MILLER, Barbara Stoler. New York 8.8.1940 — New York 19.4.1993. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New York. Daughter of Sara Stoler. Educated at Great Neck High School (where Wendy Doniger was her classmate). Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964). Ph.D. 1968 at University of Pennsylvania under W.…
MICHEL, Charles. Tournai 1853 — 1929. Belgian Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Dr. en philosophie et lettres. Docent at Liège until 1885, in 1885-1892 Professor at Gand and from 1892 at Liège. He was mainly a Greek scholar, but also interested in Indology and started the Sanskrit teaching at Liège…
MICHALEK, Manó. Jánosi 1838 — Eger 1915. Hungarian Translator of Sanskrit Literature. In Eger, probably as teacher or librarian (1892). Publications: Translated: Nala, a Mahá-Bhárata czimű szanszkrit költemény epizódja. 15+232 p. Érsek. Lyceumi ny. 14. Eger 1886; Kálidásza, Kumáraszambhava, Canto 1. Eger 1893. – Unrelevant publications. Sources: Passingly mentioned by…
MEYER-BENFEY, Heinrich (born H. Meyer). Liebenburg, Harzvorland 14.3.1869 — Buxtehude 30.12.1945. German Germanist and Indologist. A specialist of Tagore. Studies of German, English and Sanskrit at Göttingen. He supported actively the women’s liberation movement and could not habilitate at conservative Göttingen (1910, hab.diss. on Kleist), instead he became PD 1919…
MEYER, Johann Jakob. Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan 25.4.1870 — Chur 2.4.1939. German (U.S.) Indologist. Born in an outlying German colony in a poor and big family of German immigrants, being the oldest child of Johann Michael Meyer, of Franconian origin, and Anna Katharina Engel. He was able to enter college…
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. 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 of the Rāmāyaṇa,…
MEIER, Ernst Heinrich. Rusbend, Schaumburg-Lippe 17.5.1813 — Tübingen 2.3.1866. German Semitic Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Son of a teacher of village school. Gymnasium in Bückeburg, 1827–34. Studied theology and Oriental languages from 1834 first at Jena and Göttingen, in 1838 followed his teacher —> Ewaldto Tübingenand became his successor there,…
MASPÉRO, Henri Paul Gaston. Paris 15.12.1883 — Buchenwald 17.3.1945. French Sinologist. Son of the Egyptologist Gaston Maspéro (1846–1916, of Italian ancestry) and Louise Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque. After school in Paris he began himself with a study on Hellenistic Egypt, but soon turned into Sinology under —> Chavannes…
MASKELL, Dorothy A. L. (née Stede). 19?? — 1956. British Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Daughter of —> W. Stede. Ph.D. 1938 London. In 1940 still unmarried (called Stede). In 1949-56 Reader of Pāli at S.O.A.S. (succeeding her father). Husband George H. R. Maskell. Publications: “The rôle of Alaṁkāra in Indian philosophy”,…