MACKICHAN, Dugald. Glasgow 1851 — 7.4.1932. Very Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary Scholar in India. Son of Alexander M., a tobacco and snuff merchant. Educated at Glasgow (M.A. 1869, B.D. 1874, D.D. 1884), Leipzig, and Berlin universities. Did early electrostatic and electromagnetic research. In 1873-74 Thomson Fellow. In 1874 ordained as…
MCKENZIE, John. Turriff, Aberdeenshire 13.6.1883 — Edinburgh 30.10.1955. Rev. British (Scottish) Teacher and Scholar in India. Son of Andrew McK., educated at Gordon’s College in Aberdeen and at Aberdeen University (M.A. 1904), at New College, Edinburgh and at Tübingen University. Ordained as priest in 1908. From 1908 Professor at Wilson…
MACKENZIE, Colin. Stornoway, Lewis, Outer Hebrides 1753/54? — Calcutta 8.5.1821. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer and Pioneer of Indology. In India 1782-1821. Son of Murdoch M., a merchant, and his wife Barbara. Through a clan connection he obtained the cadetship and came to Madras in 1782. From 1783 Second Lieutenant of…
MCGREGOR, William Lewis. 1??? — 18??. British Author of Sikh History. Perhaps he was the physician who in 1825 published a medical dissertation in Edinburgh in Latin. A newspaper announcement in 1861 mentions the marriage of the son of the late surgeon WLM of Bengal Army in Calcutta. Publications: The…
MACDONELL, Arthur Anthony. Muzaffarpur, Bihar 11.5.1854 — Headington, Oxfordshire28.12.1930. British (Scottish)Indologist. Professor in Oxford. Son of Charles Alexander M. (1822–1870), a colonel in Indian army, and Mary Jane Maclean (1829–1893). In 1861 came with his mother to England. Educated in Germany, in 1866-69 in Dresden and 1870-75 in Göttingen. In…
MACDONALD, Kenneth Somerled. Glen Urquhart, Inverness 18.4.1832 — Calcutta 30.7.1903 (1909?). Rev. Dr. British (Scottish) Missionary and Indologist in India. Son of John M. and his wife, née Campbell, the home was Gaelic. Educated in Glen Urquhart and Inverness, studies at King’s College, Aberdeen (M.A. 1855) and at New College,…
MACAULIFFE, Max Arthur (born Michael Macauliffe). Glenmore, Monagea, co. Limerick 11.9.1838 (Foley) or Newcastle West, county Limerick 10.9.1841 (Wikip.) — Kensington, London 15.3.1913. Irish Scholar of Sikhism in India. Son of John McA., a schoolteacher, and Julia Browne. Educated at Glenmore, Templeglantine (his father’s schools) and finally at Springfield College…
LUDWIG, Alfred. Vienna 9.10.1832 — Prague 12.6.1912. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Prague. Son of Johannes L., a teacher of French, and Ludowika Köckh, grew up in Vienna, matriculated from Akademisches Gymnasium. From 1852 studies of classical philology, IE linguistics and Sanskrit at Vienna (under Boller) and in 1855-57 at Berlin…
LUBAC, Henri-Marie Joseph Sonier de. Cambrai 20.2.1896 — Paris 4.9.1991 (when 95). S.J. French Catholic Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Cardinal of the Roman Church. Sn of a banker, of ancient nobility, schooled by Jesuits in Lyon, where the family had moved in 1898. Joined Jesuit order 1913 and…
LORINSER, Carl Maria Franz. Berlin 12.3.1821 — Breslau 12.11.1893. German Catholic Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Born of a family originally coming from Bohemia, the only child of Karl Ignatius L., a physician. In 1825 the family moved to Oppeln, Upper Silesia (Opole in Poland). After school and gymnasium in Oppeln…