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MARCO DELLA TOMBA (Pietro Girolamo Agresti). Tomba near Senigallia in Urbino 1726 — Bhagalpur (Patna) 13.3. (or 7.6.) 1803. Italian Capuchin ...

MARCUS, Walther. Dresden 2.12.1889 — 19??. German Student of IE Linguistics. After gymnasium in Dresden (matriculated 1910) studies at Giessen, Heidelberg ...

MARCUSSEN, Ulrik Paoli (Paul). Tanger, Morocco 4.2.1848 — Roskilde 18.5.1906. Danish Author. Son of Marcus Paulli M. (1798–1870), a ...

MARETIĆ, Tomislav (Tomo). Virovitica 13.12.1854 — Zagreb 15.1.1938. Croatian Classical and Slavic Linguist. Studies at Zagreb and Leipzig. In 1886-1914 taught ...

MARICQ, André. Genval 29.11.1925 — Paris 22.6.1960 (when 34). Belgian Archaeologist, Art Historian and Historian, specially interested in Byzantium, the Near ...

MARKHAM, Clements Robert. Stillingfleet, York 20.7.1830 — London 30.1.1916. Sir. British Naval Officer, Traveller and Geographer. Son of Rev. David F. Markham and ...

MARKUS, Paul. 18?? — 1???. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1886 Halle.

Publications: diss. ...

MARKWART, Josef (to 1922 Marquart). Reichenbach am Heuberg, Württemberg 9.12.1864 — Berlin 4/5.2.1930. German Orientalist. Professor in Berlin. Born ...

MAROUZEAU, Jules Emile. Fleurat (Creuse) 20.3.1878 — Iteuil (Vienne) 27.9.1964. French Linguist and Latin Scholar. Professor of Latin at Sorbonne and Directeud d’études ...

MAROZZI, Eli Raphael. 1913 — 1999. U.S. (Italian born) Artist (sculptor and ceramist) and Practiser of Vedānta. Studies at University of Hawaii (M.A.), 1950 also in India (Indian art and Vedānta). In the ...

MARQUART, J. —> MARKWART, J.

MARSDEN, William. Verval, county Wicklow 16.11.1754 — Aldenham, Herefordshire 6.10.1836. British Pioneer of South-East Asian Studies and Numismatician. Son of John M., English ...

MARSHALL, John. 16?? — 1677. British Traveller in India. Employed by E.I.C. in India from 1668, apparently died there. Served in Bengal and ...

MARSHALL, John Hubert. Chester 19.3.1876 — Guilford 17.8.1958. Sir. British Archaeologist in India. Son of Frederic Marshall and Annie Evans. Educated ...

MARSHMAN, John Clark. Bristol 18.8.1794 — London 8.7.1877. British Lay Missionary in India, then Politician in England. Son of —> Joshua M., educated ...

MARSHMAN, Joshua. Westburg Leigh, Wiltshire 20.4.1768 — Serampur 5.12. 1837. British Missionary and Pioneer of Indology in India. Son of John ...

MARTIN, François. 1634 — 31.12.1706?. French Traveller in India. Agent of the French E.I.C., in 1674 founded Pondichery and was then its Governor ...

MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. Dublin 1801? — Sutton, Surrey 6.9.1868. British Physician, Botanist, Statistician and Historian in India and Asia. Born in a Protestant ...

MARTINETTI, Pier Federico Giuseppe Celestino Mario (Piero). Ponte Canavese (Torino) 21.8.1872 — Cuorgnè 23.3.1943. Italian Philosopher interested in Indian ...

MARX, Karl Rudolf. 1857 — Leh 29.5.1891. German Missionary Physician, Tibetologist and Historian in Ladakh. Dr.med. Missionary of the Moravian Mission ...

MASING, Ferdinand. Osinovka, Govt. Saratov 14.7.1849 — St.Petersburg 8.6.1918. German (of Estonia) Student of IE Linguistics. Son of Ferdinand M. (1815–1887), ...

MASING, Gotthilf Leonhard. Mustel, Ösel (now Mustjala, Saaremaa) 21.11.1845 — Tartu 4.4.1936. German (of Estonia) IE and Slavic Linguist. ...

MASING, Uku (born Hugo A. M.). Lipa, Raikkula, Rapla 11.8.1909 — 25.4.1985. Estonian Religious Philosopher. From 1928 studied theology at Tartu (M.A. 1930). ...

MASKELL, Dorothy A. L. (née Stede). 19?? — 1956. British Indologist (Pāli Scholar). ...

MASON, Francis. York 2.4.1799 — Rangoon 3.3.1874. Rev. British Missionary in Burma, a Scholar of Pāli and Karen. Born in York ...

MASPÉRO, Henri. Paris 15.12.1883 — Buchenwald 17.3.1945. French Sinologist. Son of the Egyptologist Gaston Maspéro (1846–1916, of Italian origin), started himself with a ...

MASSON-OURSEL, Paul. Paris 5.9.1882 — Paris 17.3.1956. French Indologist. Studies of Indology (Lévi), philosophy and sociology. Agrégé 1906, Ph.D. 1923. From ...

MASSON, Charles, pseudonym for —> James LEWIS.

MASSON, Joseph. Montegnés 21.9.1908 — 19??. S.J. Belgian Indologist, Catholic Priest and Theologian (Scholar of Religions and Missions). Studies at Collège ...

MASSON, Mihail Evgen’evič. St.Petersburg 21.11.(3.12.)1897 — Tashkent 2.11.1986. Russian Central Asian Archaeologist and Historian. Born in a family of remote French origin he ...

MASTER, Alfred. 12.2.1883 — 16.6.1978 (when 95). British Indologist (New Indo-Aryan and Telugu scholar). Son of George Reginald Master. Educated at King Edward VI School ...

MATERNA, Zdeněk. Brno 9.7.1900 — Breslau (Wrocław) 23.3.1944. Czech Student of Indology. Educated in Brno, studies from 1920 at Prague. Ph.D. 1925 Charles ...

MATHER, Robert Cotton. Manchester 8.11.1808 — London 21.4.1877. Rev. British (Scots) Missionary and Hindi Scholar in India. Son of James M., educated at ...

MATICS, Marion Leonidas, Jr. Suffolk, Virginia 13.7.1917 — N.Y. 21.11.1998. Rev. U.S. Buddhist Scholar. Son of M. L. Matics and Elizabeth Parker. Ph.D. ...

MATZEL, Klaus Hellmuth. Borsdorf near Leipzig 11.10.1923 — 1992. German Linguist, Germanic and Sinhalese Scholar. Professor in Regensburg. Son of Hellmuth Paul M. ...

MAURICE, Thomas. 1754 — 30.3.1824. Rev. British Priest and Oriental Scholar. Son of Thomas M. “Educated at Christ’s Hospital, Ealing and Bath, and at St. ...

MAURICE, Thomas. 1754 — 30.3.1824. Rev. British Priest and Oriental Scholar. Son of Thomas M., a schoolmaster. “Educated at Christ’s Hospital, Ealing and ...

MAUSS, Marcel. Épinal, Vosges 10.5.1872 — Paris 10.2.1950. French Sociologist and Anthropologist. Nephew and pupil of Durkheim, birn in an Alsatian Jewish family. ...

MAYER, Antun. 1881 — 4.2.1957. Yugoslavian (Croatian) IE Scholar. In the 1930s PD of Comparative IE Lin­guistics at Royal Yugoslavian University in Zagreb, ...

MAYERS, William Frederick. 1831 — Shanghai 24.3.1878. British Diplomat in China. From 1859 served as interpreter in China, then 1870–72 Consul at Chefoo, then Secretary ...

MAYNE, John Dawson. Dublin 31.12.1828 — Berkshire 1917. British (Irish) Lawyer in India. “Son of John M., Barrister-at-law in Dublin, educated at Trinity ...

MAYR, Aurel. Budapest 10.3.1845 — 9.4.1914. Hungarian Indologist. Professor in Budapest. Son of Thomas Aloysius Mayr (d. 1847), a pharmacist moved ...

MCCABE, Robert Blair. 1854? — Shillong ?.6.1897. British Civil Servant in North-East India. Educated at Victoria School, Jersey. “Sent ...

MCCRINDLE, John Watson. near Maybole, Ayrshire 16.2.1825 — Westcliff-on-Sea 16.7.1913. British (Scots) Civil Servant and ...

MCCULLOCH, William. 28.2.1816 — 1885. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John Ramsay McC., educated at ...

MCCUTCHION, David J. Coventry 12.8.1930 — Calcutta 12.1.1972. British Scholar of Indian Art. Served in R.A.F. in ...

MCGOVERN, William Montgomery. New York 28.12.1897 — Evanston Ill. 12.12.1964. U.S.Anthropologist and Journalist. Professor in Evanston. Son ...

MCGREGOR, William Lewis. 1??? — 18??. British Author of Sikh History. Perhaps he was the physician who ...

MCKENZIE, John. Turriff, Aberdeenshire 13.6.1883 — 30.10.1955. Rev. British (Scots) Teacher and Scholar in India. Son of ...

MCMUNN, George Fletcher. 1869 — 1952. Sir. British (Scots) Officer and Historian. Born in a soldier family. ...

MEADER, Clarence Lindon. Battle Creek, Mich. 12.8.1868 — Garden Grove CA 1.7.1967. U.S. Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of John Murray M. and ...

MEDVEDEV, Evgenij Mihajlovič. Moscow 23.11.1932 — 27.10.1985. Russian Indologist (Historian). Son of official. Graduated 1956 from Moscow. Kand. ist. nauk 1967. ...

MEERWARTH —> MERVART

MEES, Gualtherus Hendrik. Rotterdam 1903 — 1955. Dutch Scholar of Religion. M.A. 1928 Cambridge, in Law. Then student of Vogel. LL.D. Leiden. A ...

MEIER, Ernst Heinrich. Rusbend, Schaumburg-Lippe 17.5.1813 — Tübingen 2.3.1866. German Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of a teacher of village school. ...

MEIER, Franz Josef. 1906 — 1987. German Indologist. Librarian in Munich. Ph.D. 1931 München. In 1937-70 librarian at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in ...

MEILE, Pierre. Asnières near Paris 1911 — Saint-Georges-de-Didonne 31.7.1963. French Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Born near Paris he became one of the ...

MEILLET, Paul Jules Antoine. Moulins (Allier) 11.11.1866 — Châteaumeillant (Cher) 12.9.1936. French Linguist. ...

MEISEZAHL, Richard Othon. Weissenburg (now Wissembourg, Alsace) 16.8.1906 — Schladean, Sieg 27.4.1992. German (of Alsace) Tibetologist. For health reasons interrupted gymnasium ...

MEKLER, Georg Karl. 3.2.1858 (or 8.2.) — 19??. Baltic German (Livonian) Linguist. Studies of classical and comparative philology in 1877–84 at Dorpat, in ...

MELZER, Uto (Utho) Ottomar von, Edler von Tapferhaim. Graz 18.10.1881 — 22.2.1961. Austrian ...

MENANT, Delphine. Cherbourg 1850 — 19??. Mlle. French Iranian Scholar. Daughter of the Assyriologist —> Joachim M. Studied under Darmesteter. Ph.D. She worked ...

MENANT, Joachim. Cherbourg 16.4.1820 — Paris 30.8.1899. French Assyriologist, also interested in Iranian. Married, father of —> D. M. Originally a lawyer (studies at ...

MENASCE, Jean Pierre de. Alexandria, Egypt 24.12.1902 — Paris 24.11.1973. French Iranian Scholar. ...

MENDOZA, Gumersindo. Aculco 1829 — Ciudad de México 1883. Mexican Physician interested in Languages. Dr.med. In 1868 one of the founders of Natural ...

MENRAD, Joseph. 1861 — 1929/30. German (Bavarian) Schoolteacher interested in Indology. School and probably also studies in Munich. Ph.D. Schoolteacher in ...

MENSCHING, Gustav. Hannover 6.5.1901 — Düren-Lendersdorf 30.9.1978. German Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Bonn. Son of Gustav M. ...

MERINGER, Rudolf. Vienna 9.3.1859 — Kroisbach bei Graz 14.2.1931. Austrian IE Scholar. Professor in Graz. Son of an entrepreneur, educated in ...

MERKEL, Josef. Mainz 4.8.1788 — 18??. German Schoolteacher 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 ...

MERLO, Pietro. Turin 15.11.1850 — Alpe di Chevignana near Castelveccana 13.10.1888. Italian IE scholar interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Pavia. Studies ...

MERVART, Aleksandr Mihailovič (Gustav-German Hristianovič M., Meerwarth). Mannheim 1884 — Uhtpečlag 1932. Russian (German born) Indologist (Tamil Scholar) and Ethnograph. Grew ...

MERVART, Ljudmila Aleksandrovna (née Levina). St.Petersburg 25.8. (6.9.)1888 — 9.9.1965. Russian Indologist, Anthropologist and South-East Asian (Indonesian) Scholar. Began study at ...

MESSINA, Giuseppe. San Catalda 6.1.1893 — Messina 28.6.1951. S.J. Italo-French Scholar of Iranian and History of Religion. Born in near Caltanisetta in Sicily. Joined the ...

MEUNIER, Louis-François. Paris 8.11.1824 — 11.3.1874. French IE Linguist. Born in a modest artisan family. Studied in Paris classical ...

MEYER, v. et. MEIER.

MEYER-BENFEY, Heinrich. Liebenburg, Harzvorland 14.3.1869 — Buxtehude 30.12.1945. German Germanist and Indologist. A specialist of Tagore. Born H. Meyer. Studies of ...

MEYER-FRANCK, Helene (née Franck). 1873 — 1946. German Translator of Tagore, wife of —> H. Meyer-Benfey. Learned Bengali for her translating work.

MEYER, Elard Hugo. Bremen 6.10.1837 — Freiburg i. Br. 11.2.1908. German Scholar of Germanic Mythology. Son of a lawyer, grew up in Bremen. ...

MEYER, Gustav. Gross-Strehlitz, Oberschesien (now Strzelce Opolskie in Poland) 25.11.1850 — Feldhof bei Graz 28.8.1900. German IE Linguist and Balkanist in Austria. Professor ...

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 ...

MEYER, Leo. Bledeln near Sarstedt (Hannover) 3.7.1830 — Göttingen 6.10.1910. German IE Scholar in Estonia. Professor in Dorpat. Son of Carl Friedrich M., ...

MEYER, Rudolf Ernst Wilhelm. Berlin 2.3.1855 — 1???. German Student of Indology. Educated at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin, from 1873 studies of classical philology ...

MEZLER, Otto. 1??? — 19??. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1922 Vienna.

Publications: diss. Untersuchungen zum altindischen Beamtenwesen. MS. 1922.

Sources: Janert.

MEZZOFANTI, Giuseppe. Bologna 19.9.1774 — 15.3.1849. Italian Polyglot, Cardinal. Born in a humble family he showed early his talent in languages. Studied with ...

MICHAEL, James. 1??? — 15.12.1837. British Colonial Officer and Oriental (Persian and Urdu) Scholar. Served in India as major and colonel. In 1827-37 ...

MICHAELIS, Walther. 18?? — 1???. German Student of Indology or of IE Linguistics. Apparently among the last students of Weber. Ph.D. 1898 Berlin. ...

MICHALEK, Manó. 18?? — 1???. Hungarian Translator of Sanskrit Literature. In Eger, probably as teacher or librarian (1892).

Publications: translated: Nala. 231 p. Érsek. Lyceumi ny. 14. Eger 1886; Kalidasa, Kumarasam­bhava, Canto 1. Eger 1893.

Sources: passingly ...

MICHALSKI-IWIEŃSKI, Stanisław Franciszek. Tarnogrodz 29.1.1881 — Łodz 8.8.1961. Polish Indologist. Professor in Łodz. Studies at Warsaw, then Indology at Vienna (L. v. Schoeder) ...

MICHEL, Charles. Tournai 1853 — 1929. Belgian Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Dr. en philosophie et lettres. Docent at Liège until 1885, in ...

MICHEL, Charles. Tournai 1853 — 1929. Belgian Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Dr. en philosophie et lettres. Docent at Liège until 1885, in ...

MICHELSON, Truman. New Rochelle NY 11.8.1879 — Washington DC 26.7. 1938. U.S. Ethnologist and Linguist, interested in MIA. Professor in Washington ...

MIHALCESCU, Ioan (Irineu). Valea Viei 24.7.1874 — Agapia 5.4.1948. Romanian Orthodox Theologian and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. After school in Buzău attended the ...

MIHANOVIĆ, Antun. Klanjec 10.6.1796 — Novi Dvori 14.11.1861. Austrian (Croatian) Nationalist Author. Studied law and worked as military judge. Entered foreign department and ...

MIKLOSICH, Franz Xaver, Ritter von (Franc Miklošić). Pichelberg/Radomerščak (Untersteiermark, now in Slovenia) 20.11.1813 — Vienna 7.3.1891. Austrian (Slovenian) Linguist, ...

MILDENHALL (Midnall), John. Little Bedwell, Wiltshire 1560 — Ajmer 1614. British Traveller in India, self-styled envoy of the E.I.C. to Mughal Court in ...

MILES, William. 1780 — 21.5.1860. British Colonial Officer in India. Major-General. In 1800 joined the Bombay Native Infantry, served in Baroda. “Made a ...

MILEWSKI, Tadeusz. Kołomyja 17.5.1906 — Cracow 5.3.1966. Polish IE, Slavic, Amerindian and General Linguist. Professor in Cracow. In 1925-29 studies of Slavic at ...

MILL (born Milne), James. Logie Pert, Angus 6.4.1773 — Kensington 23.6.1836. British Scots) Politician, Philosopher, and Historian of Colonial ...

MILL, William Hodge. Middlesex 18.7.1792 — Brasted, Kent 25.12.1853. British Teacher and Indologist in India. Son of John Mill, of Dundee, ...

MILLER, Barbara Stoler. New York 8.8.1940 — New York 19.4.1993. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New York. Studies at Barnard College, Columbia ...

MILLER, Boris Vsevolodovič. Moscow 31.10.(12.11.)1877 — Moscow 6.8.1956. Russian Scholar of Iranian History. Son of —> V. F. Miller. Graduated 1899 from Juridical Faculty, ...

MILLER, Vsevolod Fedorovič. Moscow 7.4.1848 — St.Petersburg 5.11.1913. Russian Indo-Iranian Scholar. From 1866 studies at Hist.-Philological Faculty of Moscow University, soon ...

MILLER, Walter. Ashland County, Ohio 5.5.1864 — 28.7.1949. U.S. Linguist and Classical Scholar. Son of agrarian family. A.M. 1884 Michigan, further studies at Leipzig against his father’s wishes, then ...

MILLOÜÉ, Léon-Joseph de. Colmar, Alsace 30.6.1842 — 1917. French Indologist and Scholar of ...

MILLS, James Philip. 1890 — 12.5.1960. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of James Edward M., educated ...

MILLS, Lawrence Heyworth. New York 1837 — Oxford 29.1.1918. U.S. Priest and Iranian ...

MILMAN, Henry Hart. London 10.2.1791 — 24.9.1868. British Priest and Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Son of Sir Francis M., a physician, ...

MILNE, William Stanley. 18?? — 19??. British Colonial Servant in India, where he remained c. 1900-1917. Letters and papers in British Library.

MILTNER, Vladimír. Plzeň 6.7.1933 — Mathura 13.1.1997. Czech Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar). Studies in Prague and Paris. Ph.D. Worked as ...

MINAEV (Minayeff), Ivan Pavlovič. Tambov 9.(21.)10.1840 — 1.(13.)6. 1890. Russian Indologist. Professor in St.Petersburg. Studies at St.Petersburg (under Vasil’ev) and then ...

MINARD, Armand. Paris 30.12.1906 — 17.4.1998. French Indologist. Professor in Lyon and Paris. In 1927-32 studies at École Normale Supérieure and ...

MINDEROVIĆ, Čedomir. Belgrad 31.10.1912 — New Delhi 16.1.1965. Yugoslavian (Serbian?) Author interested in India. Lost early his parents. After difficult childhood he started ...

MINORSKY, Vladimir (Vladimir Fedorovič Minorskij). Korčeva (obl. Tver) 6.12.1877 — Cambridge 25.3.1966. Russian Orientalist in the U.K. Professor in London. In 1896-1900 studied ...

MIRONAS, Ričardas. Zaysan, Kazakhstan 5.4.1908 — Vilnius 26.4.1979. Lithuanian Linguist and Classical Philologist interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Vilnius. Graduated 1933 from Kaunas ...

MIRONOV, Nikolaj Dmitrievič. St.Petersburg 25.9.(13.9.)1880 — Ariana, Tunisia 1936. Russian Indologist. After Gymnasium in St.Petersburg in 1891-98 studies at univer­sity there ...

MISTELI, Franz. Aesch, Solothurn 11.3.1841 — Brunnen 6.10.1903. Swiss IE, Indo-Iranian and Classical Scholar. Professor in Basel. After Canton School of Solothurn studies ...

MITCHELL, John Murray. Aberdeen 1814/15 — ?.11.1904. Rev. British (Scots) Missionary in India. Ordained in 1838 and went immediately ...

MITSCHERLICH, Eilhard. Neuende, Herrschaft Jever 7.1.1794 — Schöneberg near Berlin 28.2.1863. German Chemist and Mineralogist, originally interested in Sanskrit. Professor of Chemistry in ...

MLADENOW, Stefan. Vidin 27.12.1880 — Sofia 1.5.1963. Bulgarian IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Sofia. Studies in 1898-1902 at Sofia, 1903-04 at Vienna ...

MODDER, Frank (Francis Huson Lowe). Colombo 4.6.1861 — 5.6.1916. British Colonial Officer in Ceylon. Major. Member of Ceylon Asiatic Society from 1890. Chief ...

MODE, Heinz Adolf. Berlin 15.8.1913 — Halle 6.6.1992. German (East) Indologist and Art Historian. Professor in Halle. Son of pharmacist Hugo ...

MÖGLING, Herrmann Friedrich. Brackenheim, Schwaben 29.5.1811 — Esslingen 10.5.1881. German Missionary and Indologist (Kannaḍa Scholar), 25 years in India. Born in ...

MOHL, Jules (Julius von Mohl). Stuttgart 25.10.1800 — Paris 4/5.1.1876. French (German born) Orientalist in Paris. French citizen. Professor of Persian ...

MOLÉ, Marijan. Ljubljana 28.7.1924 — 1963. Slovenian/Polish Orientalist in Paris. Son of the Slovenian author and art historian Vojeslav M. and ...

MOLESWORTH, James Thomas. Baptised St.Giles, Camberwell 15.6.1795 — Clifton 13.7.1872. British (Irish?) Colonial Officer and Indologist, specialist of Marāṭhī. Long time ...

MØLLER (Möller), Martin Thomas Hermann. Hjerpsted, Tonder 13.1.1850 — Copenhagen 5.10.1923. Danish Germanic and IE Linguist. Professor in Copenhagen. ...

MONAHAN, Francis John. 1865 — 20.11.1923. British (Irish) Civil Servant and Historian of India. Son of James Henry Monahan, the Chief Judge of ...

MONCHANIN, Jules (Swami Paramarubyananda). Fleurie-en-Beaujolais 10.4.1895 — Paris 10.10.1957. Father. French Theologian interested in India. Son of Antoine M. and Marie-Ursule Janin. From ...

MONIÉ-BÉNISTI, Mireille —> BÉNISTI, Mireille

MONIER-WILLIAMS, Monier. Bombay 12.11.1819 — Cannes, France 11.4. 1899. Sir. British Indologist. Professor in Oxford. Third son of Colonel M. W. ...

MONNERET DE VILLARD, Ugo. Milan 16.1.1881 — Rome 5.11.1954. Italian Archaeologist, Art Historian and Orientalist, a specialist of Egypt anf Ethiopia, but with ...

MONOD-BRUHL, Odette Geneviève Eugénie (née Bruhl). Paris 10.11.1906 — Paris 15.1.1972. French Art Historian. Born in a well-to-do Jewish family. Curator in Musée ...

MONSERRATE, Antonio de, Father. Vic, Barcelona 1536? — Salsette 26.10.1605. S.J. Spanish Missionary in India. Joined S.J. 1556, served in Lisbon and left ...

MONSEUR, Eugène Henri Guillaume Edgard. Liège 17.9.1860 — Brussels 6.12.1912. Belgian Indologist, Linguist and Folklorist. Professor in Brussels. Son of an ...

MONTOLIÚ Y TOGORES, Francisco de. Tarragona 9.2.1861 — 10.5.1892. Professor at the School of Agricultural Engineering in Madrid, but also a Theosophist, the founder of the Spanish Theosophical Society.

Publications: Under nom-de-plume ...

MOOR, Edward. 1771 — Westminster 26.2.1848. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Major. Left for India as cadet in 1782, arrived ...

MOORCROFT, William. Ormskirk, Lancashire 1765 — Andkhui 25.8.1825. British Veterinary Surgeon and Traveller in North-West India. Born as illegitimate son of Ann M., ...

MOORE, Charles A. Chicago, Ill. 11.3.1901 — Honolulu 14.4.1967. U.S. Philosopher interested in Indian Thought. Studies at Yale: A.B. 1926, Ph.D. 1932. In ...

MOORE, Justin Hartley. 1884 — 19??. U.S. Indologist. Ph.D. 1908 Columbia University, New York (under Jackson). Later on, one Justin Hartley ...

MOORE, Osbert (Ñānamoli Thera). Cambridge 25.6.1905 — Veheragama 8.3.1960. British Bauddha and Buddhist Scholar. Lived in Sri Lanka 1949–60. Son of ...

MOORE, Robert Ripley. Guinea, West Africa 9.4.1933 — Mussoorie Hills 25.5.1966. U.S. South Asian Linguist. Son of missionary parents. B.A. 1956 ...

MOORE, Ross Arthur Leslie. 18?? — 19??. Britishman in India. I.C.C. agent to the Governor of Surat. From 1920 Lecturer in Marathi at Peterhouse College, Cambridge (1924).

Publications: Review: BSOS 3:2, 1924, ...

MORDTMANN, Andreas David. Hamburg 11.2.1811 — Constantinople 30.12.1879. German Diplomat, Orientalist and Epigraphist. Lived in Constantinople from 1845. Son of Jens M. (1786-1829), ...

MORELAND, William Harrison. 13.7.1868 — 28.9.1938. British Historian of Islamic India. Born in Northern Ireland, educated 1881-86 at Clifton ...

MORICI, Giuseppe. 13.9.1855 — 19??. Italian interested in Sanskrit. “R. Provveditore agli Studi a Macerata”.

Publications: “Kālidāsa. Ritusanhāra. Traduzione in versi con note”, Orlando furioso. Rivista di lettere, scienze ed arti 2, ...

MORINI, Giuseppe. 18?? — 1???. Italian interested in Sanskrit, fl. in the 1880s.

Publications: Vālmīki. Il lamento dei genitori di Jajñadatta; brano del Rāmāyaṇa tradotto in sciolti. Ancona 1881.

Sources: Title only in Gli studi orientali in ...

MORISON, James. 1852 — 1935. British Indologist. Studies in Austria. Ph.D. 1893 Vienna (apparently under Bühler). From 1914 Librarian of Indian Institute at Oxford, also teaching. Married.

Publications: diss. Der elfte sarga ...