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  • M’KECHNIE, J. F. (Bhikkhu Silacara)

    M’KECHNIE, J. F. (Bhikkhu Silacara). Hull, Yorkshire 22.10.1872 — Chichester 27.1.1951. British (Scottish) Bauddha. Son of Scottish-English parents whom he lost early and ...

  • MAC

    MC in Scots names is arranged under —> MAC’.

  • MACALISTER, George

    MACALISTER, George. 1843 — 1920. Rev. British (Scottish) Presbyterian Missionary in India. M.A. Ordained 1871. First in Beawar, from 1876 worked in Jaipur. D.D. Married with Mary Murray Procter, children.

    MACALISTER, R. A. Stewart

    MACALISTER, Robert Alexander Stewart .Rathmines, Dublin 8.7.1870 — Cambridge 26.4.1950. Irish Archeologist. Professor in Dublin. Son of Alexander M., anatomist and Egyptologist, and Elizabeth Stewart. His mother and paternal grandfather came from ...

  • MACAN, Turner

    MACAN, Turner. Kilbrogan, Bandon, Cork county 30.9.1792 — Calcutta 24.7.1836. Irish Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Major. Son of Robert M. ...

  • MACARTNEY, George

    MACARTNEY, George. Nanjing 19.1.1867 — Jersey 19.5.1945. British Diplomat in Central Asia. Son of Halliday Macartney (1833-1905, Scottish officer in Chinese service) and ...

  • MACAULIFFE, Max Arthur

    MACAULIFFE, Max Arthur (born Michael Macauliffe). Glenmore, Monagea, co. Limerick 11.9.1838 (Foley) or Newcastle West, county Limerick 10.9.1841 (Wikip.) — London 15.3.1913. Irish ...

  • MACDONALD, David

    MACDONALD, David. Darjeeling 1870/73? — Darjeeling 6.7.1962. British Trade Agent in Tibet. Son of a Scottish father and Sikkimese mother. The father left when he was six and he was educated ...

  • MACDONALD, Kenneth Somerled

    MACDONALD, Kenneth Somerled. Glen Urquhart, Inverness 18.4.1832 — Calcutta 30.7.1903. Rev. Dr. British (Scottish) Missionary and Indologist in India. Son of ...

  • MACDONALD, Robert Mackenzie

    MACDONALD, Robert Mackenzie. 11.9.1825 — Kensington, London 3.2.1891. British Colonial Officer in India. Director of Public Instruction, Madras Presidency. Lieutenant-General. Married Caroline Helsham (1835–1865), children.

    Publications: “Vemana”,MJLS3:2, 1866, 43-62 (on ...

  • MACDONELL, Arthur Anthony

    MACDONELL, Arthur Anthony. Muzaffarpur, Bihar 11.5.1854 — Headington, Oxfordshire28.12.1930. British (Scottish)Indologist. Professor in Oxford. Son of Charles Alexander M. (d. 1870), ...

  • MACFARLANE, Charles

    MACFARLANE, Charles. Scotland 18.12.1799 — London 9.12.1858. British (Scottish) Author of Historical Works, Travel Books and Novels. Son of Robert M. In 1816–27 ...

  • MACFIE, John Mandeville

    MACFIE, John Mandeville. 30.12.1871 — 19??. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Studies at Glasgow, M.A. 1891. From 1894 Presbyterian missionary in Rajputana. Not to be confused with Major-General J.M.M. (1891–1985).

  • MACGREGOR, Charles

    MACGREGOR, Charles Metcalfe. Agra 12.8.1840 — Cairo 5.2.1887. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Geographer and Explorer in India. Son of Major Robert Guthrie M. Educated at Marlborough College. At the age of ...

  • MACGREGOR, William Lewis

    MACGREGOR, William Lewis. ?.12.1801 — Dinapur (Danapur) near Patna 7.9.1853. British Physician in India, Author of Sikh History. M.D. 1825 Edinburgh, then to India. The principal physician to Ranjit Singh and ...

  • MACHALSKI, Frantiszek

    MACHALSKI, Franciszek. Braddock near Pittsburgh 5.7.1904 — Cracow 24.1.1979. Polish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Cracow. Born in a poor emigrant family in the ...

  • MACHEK, Václav

    MACHEK, Václav. Úhlejov, okr. Jičín/Neupaka 8.11.1894 — Brno 26.5.1965. Czechoslovakian Slavic, Vedic and IE Scholar. Professor in Brno. From 1914 studied ...

  • MACKAY, Ernest John Henry

    MACKAY, Ernest John Henry. Bristol 5.7.1880 — London 2.10.1943. British Archaeologist. Son of Richard Cockrill M. and ...

  • MACKEAN, Walter George

    MACKEAN, Walter George. Edinburgh 17.6.1872 — Aberdeen 2.11.1932. British (Scottish) Missionary in Sikkim. Worked for Scottish Universities’ Mission in Sikkim in 1900-29?. In 1929-32 Parish Minister of Maryton, Angus. Married 1906 ...

  • MACKENZIE,  D. Neil

    MACKENZIE, David Neil. London 8.4.1926 — Bangor, Wales 13.10.2001. British Iranian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Göttingen. Son of David M., educated in Slough, Windsor and Cambridge. From November 1943 ...

  • MACKENZIE, Colin

    MACKENZIE, Colin. Stornoway, Lewis, Outer Hebrides 1753/54? — Calcutta 8.5.1821. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer and Pioneer of Indology. In India 1782-1821. ...

  • MACKENZIE, Hector

    MACKENZIE, Hector. 1??? — 1???. Captain. The India Office and Burma List for 1872 mentions a Major H. Mackenzie in Central Provinces.

    Publications: Report on the revised settlement of the Goojerat District, in ...

  • MACKICHAN, Dugald

    MACKICHAN, Dugald. Glasgow 1851 — 7.4.1932. British (Scottish) Missionary Scholar in India. Son of Alexander M., a tobacco and snuff merchant. Educated at Glasgow (M.A. ...

  • MACKINTOSH, Alexander

    MACKINTOSH, Alexander. 1??? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain in Madras army commanding Ahmednagar local corps (1834/37). Major 1837. Wrote aboutRamoshi, a migratory tribe.

    Publications: An Account of the ...

  • MACKINTOSH, James

    MACKINTOSH, James. Aldourie near Inverness 24.10.1765 — London 30.5.1832. Sir. British (Scottish) Lawyer, Statesman and Historian, Civil Servant in India. Son of Captain ...

  • MÄCKLER, Georg Karl

    MÄCKLER, Georg Karl —> MEKLER, G. K.

  • MACLAGAN, Edward

    MACLAGAN, Edward Douglas. Pañjāb, India 25.8.1864 — London 22.10.1952. Sir. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of —> R. E. M., educated in ...

  • MACLAGAN, Robert

    MACLAGAN, Robert. Edinburgh 14.12.1820 — 22.4.1894. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. General. Son of David M., a physician, and his wife ...

  • MACLEAN, James Hair

    MACLEAN, James Hair. 22.11.1868 — 1945?. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in South India. Studies at Glasgow (M.A. 1890, B.D. 1894). Further studies at Oxford and Jena. Came to India in 1895 ...

  • MACLEOD, Roderick Henry

    MACLEOD, Roderick Henry. Kensington, London 1854 — Cambridge 22.12.1928. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Dunning M. and Elizabeth Mackenzie Cameron. ...

  • MACMUNN, George

    MACMUNN, George Fletcher. Chelsea 24.8.1869 — Sackville College, East Grinstead, Sussex 23.8.1952. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer and Historian. Born in a soldier family, son of John Alexander M. and Charlotte Edith ...

  • MACMURDO, James

    MACMURDO, James. Dumfriesshire 30.11.1785 — Wurnoo (Varnu) in Wagur, Gujarat 28.4.1820, when 33. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major M. of Dumfriesshire Militia. Entered early (1801) E.I.C.’s army ...

  • MACNAGHTEN, William Hay

    MACNAGHTEN, William Hay. Antrim, North Ireland ?.8.1793 — Kabul 23.12.1841. Sir, first Bart. British Civil Servant, Diplomat, and Orientalist in India. Second son ...

  • MACNEILL, Hector

    MACNEILL, Hector. Near Roslin, Midlothian 22.10.1746 — Edinburgh 15.3.1818. British (Scottish) Poet. Son of James M., a poor army captain turned farmer, educated at Stirling. When 14 he was sent as ...

  • MACNICOL, Nicol

    MACNICOL, Nicol. Catacol, Lochranza, Isle of Arran 26.2.1870 — Edinburgh 13.2.1952. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Marathi ...

  • MACONACHIE, Robert

    MACONACHIE,  James Robert. Orsett, Essex ?.1.1850 — Bromley, Kent 20.10.1922. British Civil Servant in India. Son of George M. and his wife Maria. Educated at Merchant Taylor’s School and London University (B.A.). ...

  • MACPHAIL, James M.

    MACPHAIL, James Merry. 1863 — Tisri, Bihar 15.6.1929. British (Scottish) Missionary Physician. Son of Dugald M. and Janet Merry. Studies at Glasgow. M.A. ...

  • MACPHAIL, Ronald M.

    MACPHAIL, Ronald Merry. Santalia 5.8.1899 — Newington, Edinburgh 9.12.1974. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary Physician. in India. Son of —> J. M. Macphail, continued his work among Santals. Educated at Glasgow Academy. ...

  • MACPHERSON, S. Charles

    MACPHERSON, Samuel Charles. Aberdeen 7.1.1806 — Calcutta 15.4.1860. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Major (1854). Son of Hugh ...

  • MACREADY, William Charles

    MACREADY, William Charles. England 7.8.1832 — Puttalam 26.11.1871. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of the well-known actor William M. and actress Catherine Frances Atkins. Studies at Oxford (Christ Church) ...

  • MAFFEI, Angelo Francesco Saverio

    MAFFEI, Angelo Francesco Saverio (Angelus Francis Xavier). Pinzolo, Val di Rendena, South Tyrol (Alto Adighe) 12.11.1844 — Nellikunja near Kasargod 31.5.1899. ...

  • MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro

    MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro (Giampietro). Bergamo 1533 — Tivoli 20.10.1603. S.J. Italian Jesuit Historian. Born in a noble family living in poverty. Educated by his uncles and in Rome. From 1563 worked as ...

  • MAGGI, Pietro Giuseppe

    MAGGI, Pietro Giuseppe. Milano 31.8.1817 — Milano 5.2.1873. Italian Scholar interested in Indology. Ph.D. Member of Lombardian Academy. According to De ...

  • MAGOUN, Herbert W.

    MAGOUN, Herbert William. Bath, co. Sagadahoc, Maine 17.2.1856 — Belmont, Mass. 8.1. 1956. U.S. Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of Thomas ...

  • MAHON, George W.

    MAHON, George William. Madras 1808 — Aspley, Woburn, Bedfordshire 1866. Rev. British Clergyman in India. Son of William M., of Swansea. Matriculated 1824 ...

  • MAHONY, Daniel

    MAHONY, Daniel. Dunloe Castle, Kerry 1758 — Ibid. 29.10.1832. British (Irish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of John M. and Honora Haly. In 1796 visited Kandy as Lieutenant, then Captain (1801), ...

  • MAINE, Henry

    MAINE, Henry  James Sumner. Kelso, Roxburghshire 15.8.1822 — Cannes, France 3.2.1888. Sir. British Lawyer and Legal Historian in India. Son of Dr. James Maine and Eliza Fell, educated at Christ’s Hospital, ...

  • MAINWARING, George Byres

    MAINWARING, George Byres. Banda, U.P., India 18.7.1825 — Serampore 16.1.1893. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of George M. of B.C.S. and Isabella Byres. ...

  • MAISEY, Frederick Charles

    MAISEY, Frederick Charles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland 27.8.1825 — Eastbourne, Sussex 2.9.1892. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Thomas Maisey. Lieutenant of Bengal Native Infantry (1848), finally from 1888 General. He had ...

  • MAJER, Friedrich

    MAJER (Maier), Friedrich. Koskau bei Schleiz 28.4.1772 — Gera 15.5.1818. German Lawyer and Scholar interested in India. Son of a minister. ...

  • MAJEWSKI, Valenty Skorochód

    MAJEWSKI, Walenty Skorochód. Guzy, Podlachia (Podlasie) 1764 — Warsaw 3.7.1835. Polish Dilettante interested in Sanskrit. Born in a petty noble family. Graduated 1785 ...

  • MAJOR, Richard Henry

    MAJOR, Richard Henry. Jersey 3.10.1818 — Kensington 25.6.1891. British Geographer. Son of elder R.H.M., a physician. From 1844 in charge of the the map collection in British Museum, from 1867 Keeper ...

  • MAKOVEL’SKIJ, Aleksandr Osipovič

    MAKOVEL’SKIJ, Aleksandr Osipovič. Grodno (Hrodna in Belarus) 10(22).8.1884 — Baku 16.12.1969. Russian Iranian Scholar in Azerbaijan. Son of an official, Osip Konstantinovič M., ...

  • MALAN, Solomon Caesar

    MALAN, Caesar Jean Salmon (then Solomon Caesar). Geneva 12.4.1812 (or 23.4.) — Bournemouth 25.11.1893 (or 1894). Rev. Swiss Priest, ...

  • MALCOLM, John

    MALCOLM, John. Burnfoot,Dumfriesshire 2.5.1769 — Windsor 31.5. or 30.7.1833. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Diplomat and Historian in India. Son of George M., ...

  • MALET, Charles Warre

    MALET, Charles Warre. bapt. Combe Florey, Somerset 30.12.1752 — Bath 24.1.1815. Sir, 1st Bart (1791). British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. ...

  • MALET, George Grenville

    MALET, George Grenville. Newton Tony, Wiltshire 7.3.1804 — Bushire, Iran 9.12.1856.British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel (1854). Son of —> Ch. W. Malet and Susanna Wales. Joined E.I.C.’s army in 1822, ...

  • MALINOWSKI, Franciszek

    MALINOWSKI, Franciszek Ksawery. Gołubie, Pomerania 27.12.1807 (or 1808) — Komorniki, Wielkopolskie 30.1.1881. Polish Priest and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. After school in Skępo, ...

  • MALLESON, George Bruce

    MALLESON, George Bruce. Wimbledon 8.5.1825 — Kensington, London 1.3.1898. British Colonial Officer in India. Colonel. Son of John M. and Lucy Nesbitt. “Educated ...

  • MALLET, Charles W.

    MALLET, Charles W. —> MALET, Charles Warre

  • MALLMANN, Marie-Thérèse de

    MALLMANN, Marie-Thérèse Hélène Henriette Suzanne de. Paris 6.10.1909 — 21.9.1975. French Indologist and ...

  • MALOV, Sergej Efimovič

    MALOV, Sergej Efimovič. Kazan 4.1.(16.1.)1880 — Leningrad 6/7.9.1957. Russian Turkologist and Central Asian Scholar. Son of Evfemij Aleksandrovič M., Professor of the Theological Academy. ...

  • MALTBY, Thomas James

    MALTBY, Thomas James. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Possibly son of elder Thomas James M., who was British Vice-Consul in ...

  • MAMMITZSCH, Ulrich H. R.

    MAMMITZSCH, Ulrich Hans Richard. 1935 — Bellingham, Wash. 19.11.1990. U.S. (German-born) Sinologist and Scholar of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism. Studied at Halle, in 1957 escaped from East Germany to West and settled ...

  • MAN, E. Horace

    MAN, Edward Horace. Singapore 1846 — Brighton, Sussex 28.9.1929. British Civil Servant and Ethnographist in India. Son of Captain (future General) Henry Stuart ...

  • MAN, Edward G.

    MAN, Edward Garnet. Halstead, Kent 8.2.1837 — Godalming, Surrey 14.11.1920. British Civil Servant in Bengal and Burma. Son of Harry Stoe Man and  Louisa Caroline Fowle. After early stay in business ...

  • MANDEL’ŠTAM, Anatolij Maksimilijanovič.

    MANDEL’ŠTAM, Anatolij Maksimilijanovič. Vorone¢ 11.8.1920 — 8.9.1983. Russian Archaeologist of Central Asia. of physician Maksimilian Emil’evič M. Graduated in 1941 in Leningrad in ...

  • MANDELBAUM, David G.

    MANDELBAUM, David Goodman. Chicago 22.8.1911 — Berkeley 19.4.1987. U.S, Anthropologist. Studies at Northwestern University (B.A. 1932). Ph.D. 1936 Yale, under E. Sapir. After ...

  • MANDELSLO, Johann Albrecht von

    MANDELSLO, Johann Albrecht von (Johan Albert v. M.). Schönberg, Mecklenburg 15.5.1616 — Paris 16.5.1644. German Traveller in India. Son of Hermann Clamor v. ...

  • MANEN, Johan van

    MANEN, Mari Albert Johan van. Nijmegen 16.4.1877 — Calcutta 17.4.1943. Dutch Librarian and Theosophist in India. Son of Reinier ...

  • MANENGO, Andrea

    MANENGO, Andrea. 18?? — 1???. Italian Physician interested in Āyurveda. Studies around 1850. Dr. Med. Worked in Brescia (1852), then in Guastalla.

  • MANGER, O.

    MANGER, O. 1??? — 1???. British (?) Physician in India. Civil surgeon in Seonee, from 1843 (still there 1848).

    Publications: “Specimen of the Language of the Goonds as spoken in the District of Seonee, Chuparah; ...

  • MAŃKOWSKI, Leon von

    MAŃKOWSKI, Leon (von / M. h. Zaremba). Podolia 6.11.1858 — Cracow 18.4.1909. Polish (Austrian) Indologist. Professor in Cracow. Son of Walery M. ...

  • MANN, Stuart E

    MANN, Stuart Edward. Nottingham 11.6.1905 — High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 5.8.1986. British Linguist. Son of Oliver Mann and Mabel Constance Anderson. Studies at Bristol, graduated 1927. In 1929-31 in Tirana, then teaching ...

  • MÄNNER, August

    MÄNNER, August. Ossweil, Württemberg 22.7.1828 — Seehof, Württemberg 25.4.1891. Rev. German Missionary in South India. After Basel Mission School arrived in 1857 and ...

  • MANNERHEIM, Carl Gustaf

    MANNERHEIM, Carl Gustaf Emil, baron. Louhisaari, Askainen 4.6.1867 — Lausanne 28.1.1951. Finnish Military Leader, Statesman and Traveller. Born in a family of nobility ...

  • MANNING, Charlotte

    MANNING, Charlotte (former Speid, née Solly). Leyton, Essex 30.3.1803 — Westminster 1.4.1871. A Britishwoman interested in Indian History. Daughter of Isaac Solly, of ...

  • MANNING, Thomas

    MANNING, Thomas. Broome, Norfolk 8.11.1772 — Bath 2.5.1840  . British Physician and Traveller in Asia, visited Lhasa. Buckland (with additions):“Son ...

  • MANRIQUE, Sebastian

    MANRIQUE, Sebastian (Sebastien). c. 1590? — London 1669. Portuguese Augustinian monk and Missionary in India. Arriving in ship from Goa in 1612 he ...

  • MANSION, Joseph

    MANSION, Joseph. Ghent 9.1.1877 — Liège 8.11.1937. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Liège. Son of the mathematician Paul M. (1844–1919) and Marie-Cécile ...

  • MANTEGAZZA, Paolo

    MANTEGAZZA, Paolo. Monza, Lombardy 31.10.1831 — San Terenzo, Lerici, Liguria 28.8.1910. Italian Physician, Author and Traveller, also a Darwinian Anthropologist. Studies at Pisa and Milano. Worked as physician in Milano, the ...

  • MANUCCI, Niccolò

    MANUCCI (MANNUCCI), Niccolo. Venice 19.4.1638 — Madras 1717. Italian Traveller in India. He run away from his Venetian home in the age of ...

  • MANUEL, Thomas Philip

    MANUEL, Thomas Philip. 1??? — 1???. A person who seems to defy all attempt of identification. The short preface to his 1860 book is signed at Hooghly College. One Th.Ph.M., aged ...

  • MANWARING, Alfred

    MANWARING, Alfred. Broadwater, Sussex 5.4.1855 — Hastings, Sussex 12.1.1950. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of William M. and Eliza Paine. Ordained 1879. ...

  • MARAZZI, Antonio

    MARAZZI, Antonio. 1814 — 18??. Italian Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Studies at Turin under Flechia. Once called Professor (perhaps in school, ...

  • MARCEL-DUBOIS, Claudie

    MARCEL-DUBOIS, Claudie. Tours 19.1.1913 — Paris 1.2.1989. French Pianist and Ethnomusicologist. Studies at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. From 1934 she worked in the Music department of Musée d’ethnographie de Trocadéro.

  • MARCO DELLA TOMBA

    MARCO DELLA TOMBA (lay Pietro Girolamo Agresti). Tomba (now Castel Colonna) near Senigallia in Urbino 1726 — Bhagalpur (Patna) 13.3. (or ...

  • MARCUS, Walther

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

  • MARCUSSEN, Paul

    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

    MARETIĆ, Tomislav (Tomo). Virovitica, Eastern Croatia 13.12.1854 — Zagreb 15.1.1938. Croatian Classical and Slavic Linguist. Gymnasium in Varaždin, Požega and Zagreb. ...

  • MARICQ, André

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

  • MARKBY, William

    MARKBY, William. Duxford, Cambridgeshire 31.5.1829 — Headington, Oxford 15.10.1914. Sir. British Lawyer. Son of Rev. William Henry M., Rector of Duxford, and Sophia Randall. Educated at Bury St.Edmunds. From 1846 studies ...

  • MARKGRAF, Walter (Samaṇero Dhammānusari)

    MARKGRAF, Walter (Samaṇero Dhammānusari). 1865 — Flanders 1915. Swiss Bauddha. Ordained samaṇera 1908 in Rangoon by Nyāyatiloka, but returned soon to lay life. Ran his own publishing house in Breslau, publishing also ...

  • MARKHAM, Clements R.

    MARKHAM, Clements Robert. Stillingfleet, Yorkshire 20.7.1830 — London 30.1.1916. Sir. British Traveller and Geographer. Son of Rev. David F. Markham and Catherine Milner. ...

  • MARKOVICH (Marković), Miroslav

    MARKOVICH (Marković), Miroslav. Belgrad 18.3.1919 — Urbana, Ill. 14.6.2001. Yugoslavian (Serbian?) Classical Scholar in America. Studies at Belgrad, graduated 1941. Participated in war as partisan under Tito, then 1946-54 Lecturer in ...

  • MARKUS, Paul

    MARKUS, Paul. 18?? — 1???. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1886 Leipzig. His is one of the few Indological dissertations printed in German Fraktur type.

  • MARKWART (Marquart), Josef

    MARKWART, Josef (until 1922 Marquart). Reichenbach am Heuberg, Württemberg 9.12.1864 — Berlin 4/5.2.1930. German German Oriental Scholar. Professor in ...

  • MAROUZEAU, Jules

    MAROUZEAU, Jules Emile. Fleurat (Creuse) 20.3.1878 — Iteuil (Vienne) 27.9.1964. French Linguist and Latin Scholar. Son of a farmer, educated in Guéret and ...

  • MAROZZI, Eli Raphael

    MAROZZI, Eli Raphael. Motegallo 1913 — Honolulu 31.8.1999. U.S. (Italian-born) Artist (sculptor and ceramist) and Practiser of Vedānta. Came to the U.S.A. as child, grew up in Pennsylvania. In 1941-43 in army. Studies ...

  • MARQUART, J.

    MARQUART, J. —> MARKWART, J.

  • MARSDEN, Edmund

    MARSDEN, Edmund. 18?? — 19??. British author of textbooks, some of which were also translated into Hindī, Tamil and other languages. In 1893 he belonged to Madras Department of Public Instruction, ...

  • MARSDEN, William

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

  • MARSHALL, George T.

    MARSHALL, George Turnbull. Calcutta 13.12.1803 — at sea, St.Ives Bay, Cornwall 10.12.1854. British Colonial Officer in India. Arrived c. 1830. Major 1846. In 1838-52 Secretary of the College of Fort William in ...

  • MARSHALL, John

    MARSHALL, John. 16?? — 1677. British Traveller in India. Studies at Cambridge (M.A. Christ’s College). Employed by E.I.C. in India from 1668, apparently died ...

  • MARSHALL, John Hubert

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

  • MARSHALL, William E.

    MARSHALL, William Elliot. 1826? — Torquay, Devon 21.11.1888. British Colonial Officer and Anthropologist in India. Son of an officer, educated at Rugby. Lieutenant-Colonel of Bengal Staff Corps (1873). Retired as Major-General. Married ...

  • MARSHMAN, John Clark

    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

    MARSHMAN, Joshua. Westburg Leigh, Wiltshire 20.4.1768 — Serampur 5.12.1837. British Missionary and Pioneer of Indology in India. Son of John M., ...

  • MARTIN, Claude

    MARTIN, Claude. Lyon 5.1.1735 — Lucknow 13.9.1800. French Officer in India. Born in a modest middle class family, son of Fleury M., a casket maker, and Anne Vaginay. After school in ...

  • MARTIN, François

    MARTIN, François. Paris 1634 — 31.12.1706. French Traveller in India. Illegitimate son of a wealthy spice merchant, after his death had to work ...

  • MARTIN, Montgomery

    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 ...

  • MARTIN, W. B.

    MARTIN, W. B. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Deputy Collector and Magistrate, Madhipárah, Bhagalpur (1875), later of Beguserai (1892), in Bihar. Sometimes given three initials as J. W. B. ...

  • MARTINET, André

    MARTINET, André. Saint-Alban-des-Villards (Savoie) 12.4.1908 — Châtenay-Malabry (Paris) 16.7.1999. French Linguist. Began his studies with English and Germanic. Ph.D. 1937 Paris. In 1938-46 directeur d’études at É.P.H.É. In 1947-55 taught at Columbia ...

  • MARTINETTI, Piero

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

  • MARTINI, François

    MARTINI, François. Can Tho, Vietnam 20.5.1895 — 18.6.1965. French Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of Corsican father and Cambodian mother. Studied law and philosophy, participated in the WW ...

  • MARX, Karl

    MARX, Karl Rudolf. 1857 — Leh 29.5.1891. German Missionary Physician, Tibetologist and Historian in Ladakh. Dr.med., specialising on ophthalmology. Missionary of ...

  • MASING, Ferdinand

    MASING, Ferdinand. Osinovka, Govt. Saratov 14.7.1849 — St.Petersburg 8.6.1918. German (of Estonia) Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Son of ...

  • MASING, Leonhard

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

  • MASING, Uku

    MASING, Uku (born Hugo Albert M.). Lipa, Raikküla, Rapla district 11.8.1909 — Tartu 25.4.1985. Estonian Polyglot and Religious Philosopher. Son of Ado (Aadu) ...

  • MASKELL, Dorothy A. L.

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

  • MASON, Francis

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

  • MASPÉRO, Henri

    MASPÉRO, Henri. Paris 15.12.1883 — Buchenwald 17.3.1945. French Sinologist. Son of the Egyptologist Gaston Maspéro (1846–1916, of Italian origin). After school in Paris ...

  • MASSON-OURSEL, Paul

    MASSON-OURSEL, Paul. Paris 5.9.1882 — Paris 17.3.1956. French Indologist. Studied Indology (Foucher and Lévi), philosophy (Bergson) and sociology (Durkheim and Mauss), ...

  • MASSON, Charles

    MASSON, Charles, pseudonym for —> James LEWIS.

  • MASSON, Joseph

    MASSON, Joseph. Montegnés 21.9.1908 — Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels 1998. Father, S.J. Belgian Indologist, Catholic Priest and Theologian (Scholar of Religions and Missions). ...

  • MASSON, Mihail Evgen’evič

    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, son ...

  • MASTER, Alfred

    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 ...

  • MASTER, Streynsham

    MASTER, Streynsham. Langdon, Kent 28.10.1640 — Lancashire 28.4.1724. Sir. British Colonial Administrator in India. Son of Richard Langdon. Served long in Surat, then in Masulipatam and Bengal and in 1678-81 as ...

  • MATEER, Samuel

    MATEER, Samuel. 1835 — England 24.12.1893. Rev. British (?) Missionary in India. Worked 33 years, until 1891, in Travancore for London Missionary Society, encouraged local people for ministry. In 1890 his ...

  • MATERNA, Zdeněk

    MATERNA, Zdeněk. Brno 9.7.1900 — Breslau (Wrocław) 23.3.1944. Czech Teacher and former Student of Indology. Educated in Brno, studies from 1920 at Prague. ...

  • MATERNOVÁ, Pavla

    MATERNOVÁ, Pavla (née Škampová). Prague 6.3.1858 — Prague 19.3.1923. Czech Author, Critic and Translator. Worked as teacher.

    Publications: Transl. in Czech: Bhagavadgita. 136 p. Klatovy 1920 (probably from English).

    – Much unrelated to India, translations from English, Russian ...

  • MATHER, Cotton

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

  • MATICS, Marion L.

    MATICS, Marion Leonidas, Jr. Suffolk, Virginia 13.7.1917 — N.Y. 21.11.1998. Rev. U.S. Buddhist Scholar. Son the elder of M.L.M. and Elizabeth Parker. Ph.D. 1960 ...

  • MATTHEWS, Gordon

    MATTHEWS, Gordon. Crosby near Liverpool 1886 — Scotland 1947. Rev. British Missionary in South India. Son of John M., a local G.P., the family came from North Wales. Studies at Merton ...

  • MATZEL, Klaus

    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

    MAURICE, Thomas. Hertford 25.9.1754 — London 30.3.1824. Rev. British Priest and Oriental Scholar. Son of Thomas M., a schoolmaster. “Educated at Christ’s Hospital, ...

  • MAUSS, Marcel

    MAUSS, Marcel. Épinal (Vosges) 10.5.1872 — Paris 10.2.1950. French Sociologist and Anthropologist. Born in an Alsatian Jewish family, son of Gerson M. and ...

  • MAXWELL, William Graham

    MAXWELL, William Graham. Canonbie, Dumfriesshire 10.7.1803 — after 1858.British Physician in India. Son of George M. and Anne (or Anna) Bell. M.D. 1825 Edinburgh. In Madras medical service, worked in Gumsūr. From 1841 ...

  • MAYER, Antun

    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

    MAYERS, William Frederick. Hobart, Tasmania 7.1.1831 — Shanghai 24.3.1878. British Diplomat in China. Son of Rev. Michael John M., colonial chaplain in Tasmania, in 1842 ...

  • MAYNE, John D.

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

  • MAYR, Aurel

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

  • MC’ in Scottish names is arranged under —> MAC.
    MC’ in Scottish names is arranged under —> MAC.
  • MCCABE, Robert Blair

    MCCABE, Robert Blair. 1854? — Shillong 12.6.1897. British Civil Servant in North-East India. Educated at Victoria School, Jersey. “Sent ...

  • MCCALL, Anthony Gilchrist

    MCCALL, Anthony Gilchrist. 1895 — ?.5.1978. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Anthony McCall and Mary Gilchrist. In 1914-21 served in Royal Artillery. Major. In 1921 joined I.C.S. ...

  • MCCAWLEY, James D.

    MCCAWLEY, James David (born James Quillan McCawley Jr.). Glasgow 30.3.1938 — Chicago 10.4.1999. U.S. (Scottish-born) Linguist. Professor in Chicago. Son of James Quillan McC., a businessman, and Monica Bateman, a physician, ...

  • MCCRINDLE, John Watson

    MCCRINDLE, John Watson. near Maybole, South Ayrshire 16.2.1825 — Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 16.7.1913. British (Scottish) Civil ...

  • MCCULLOCH, William (elder)

    MCCULLOCH, William. Edinburgh 28.2.1816 — 4.4.1885. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John Ramsay McC., educated ...

  • MCCULLOCH, William (younger)

    MCCULLOCH, William. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British (Scottish) Presbyterian Missionary in India. Principal of theological college in Chinsurah (1886). Returned to the U.K. in the 1920s. Married Helen Paterson, two daughters ...

  • MCCUTCHION, David J

    MCCUTCHION, David J. Coventry 12.8.1930 — Calcutta 12.1.1972. British Scholar of Indian Art. Educated in Coventry. After ...

  • MCGOVERN, William Montgomery

    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

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

  • MCKENZIE, John

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

  • MCKERRELL, John

    MCKERRELL, John. Hillhouse, Ayrshire 17?? — London 1835. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. In Madras Civil Service, worked as Translator of Telugu and Kannaḍa, also an ex officio member of ...

  • MCPHERSON, Hugh

    MCPHERSON, Hugh. Paisley, Renfrewshire 3.5.1870 — Edinburgh 17.12.1960. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Duncan M. and Rebecca Lees. Joined I.C.S. around 1890. In Bengal, from 1912 in ...

  • MEADER, Clarence L.

    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

    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

    MEERWARTH —> MERVART

  • MEES, Gualtherus H. (Sadhu Ekarasa)

    MEES, Gualtherus Hendrik (Sadhu Ekarasa). Rotterdam 6.8.1903 — Orsett, Essex 5.6.1955. Dutch Scholar of Religion. Son of Abraham Cornelis Mees and Louisa Hen ...

  • MEIER, Ernst

    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 ...

  • MEIER, Josef

    MEIER, Franz Josef. 1906 — 1987. German Librarian, began his career as Indologist. Librarian in Munich. Ph.D. 1931 München. In 1937-70 ...

  • MEILE, Pierre

    MEILE, Pierre. Asnières near Paris 23.2.1911 — Saint-Georges-de-Dionne (Charente-Maritime) 31.7.1963. French Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Born near Paris he became one of ...

  • MEILLET, Antoine

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

  • MEINHARD, Heinrich

    MEINHARD, Heinrich. 1900 — 1975. German Anthropologist and former Student of Indology in the U.K. Ph.D. 1928 Bonn under Kirfel, but then turned to anthropology. Curator in Berlin Ethnographic Museum. To ...

  • MEISEZAHL, Richard Othon

    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

    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 ...

  • MELVILLE, W. R.

    MELVILLE, W. R. 18?? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain. In 1866 in charge of Gwalior Survey.

    Publications: “Note on some Buddhist Ruins at Doob Koond”, JASB 35:1, 1866, 168-172.

    Sources: With mere initials and no further information ...

  • MELZER, Uto von

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

  • MENANT, Delphine

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

  • MENANT, Joachim

    MENANT, Joachim. Cherbourg 16.4.1820 — Paris 30.8.1899. French Assyriologist, with early interest in Iranian religion. Son of Joachim M. and Amable Boissière, educated ...

  • MENASCE, Jean Pierre de

    MENASCE, Jean de (born Jean André Moise de M.). Alexandria, Egypt 24.12.1902 — Paris 24.11.1973. Father. French Iranian ...

  • MENDOZA, Gumersindo

    MENDOZA, Gumersindo. Aculco 1829 — Ciudad de México 1883. Mexican Physician interested in Languages. Born in a modest family with Otomi background. Studies ...

  • MENGES, Karl

    MENGES, Karl Heinrich. Frankfurt a.M. 22.4.1908 — Vienna 20.9.1999. German Turkologist in the U.S.A. Professor in New York. Born in a Roman Catholic family. Educated at Lessing Gymnasium in Frankfurt, matriculated 1926. ...

  • MENRAD, Joseph

    MENRAD, Joseph. 22.3.1861 — 1929. German (Bavarian) Schoolteacher interested in Indology. School and also studies in Munich (Sanskrit and Classics). Ph.D. ...

  • MENSCHING, Gustav

    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

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

  • MERKEL, Josef

    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 ...

  • MERLO, Pietro

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

  • MERVART, Aleksandr Mihailovič

    MERVART, Aleksandr Mihailovič (Gustav-German Hristianovič M., born Gustav Hermann Christian Meerwarth). Mannheim (or Bruchsal) 1884 — Uhtpečlag 23.5.1932. Russian (German-born) Indologist (Tamil ...

  • MERVART, Ljudmila Aleksandrovna

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

  • MESSINA, Giuseppe

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

  • METHWOLD, William

    METHWOLD (Method), William. Baptised in South Pickenham near Swaffham, Norfolk 1590 — Kensington (London) 5.3.1653. British Merchant and Traveller in India. Son of Thomas M. and Susanna Hogan. Aged 16 he was apprenticed ...

  • METZ, Johann Friedrich

    METZ, Johann Friedrich. Lustnau (Tübingen) 1819 — Tübingen 1886. Rev. German Missionary in India. Served Basel Missionary Society in Mangalore. From 1847 among Todas, at least 24 years there. He is ...

  • MEUNIER, François

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

  • MEYER

    MEYER, v. et. MEIER.

  • MEYER-BENFEY, Heinrich

    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

    MEYER-FRANCK, Helene (née Franck). 1873 — 1946. German Translator of Tagore, from 1906 wife of —> H. Meyer-Benfey. Worked as schoolteacher in Hamburg.Learned ...

  • MEYER, Elard Hugo

    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

    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

    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

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

  • MEYER, Rudolf

    MEYER, Rudolf Ernst Wilhelm. Berlin 2.3.1855 — 1928. German Student of Indology. Educated at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin, from 1873 studies of classical philology ...

  • MEZGER, Fritz

    MEZGER, Fritz. Ilsfeld bei Heilbronn 15.10.1893 — King of Prussia near Philadelphia, PA 9.6.1979. German Linguist in the U.S.A. Matriculated 1911, then studies of modern philology and comparative IE at Tübingen. Participated in ...

  • MEZLER, Otto

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

    Publications: Diss. Untersuchungen zum altindischen Beamtenwesen. Manuscript, Vienna 1922.

    Sources: Diss. in Janert.

  • MEZZOFANTI, Giuseppe

    MEZZOFANTI, Giuseppe Gaspare. Bologna 19.9.1774 — Rome 15.3.1849. Italian Polyglot, Cardinal. Born in a humble family as son of carpenter he showed early ...

  • MICHAEL, James

    MICHAEL, James. 17?? — 15.12.1837. British Colonial Officer and Oriental (Persian and Urdu) Scholar in India, then in 1827-37 Professor of Hindu Literature and ...

  • MICHAELIS, Walther

    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

    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 ...

  • MICHALSKI-IWIEŃSKI, Stanisław

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

  • MICHEL, Charles

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

  • MICHEL, Charles

    MICHEL, Charles. 24.7.1853 — Madeleine near Lille 21.12.1929. Belgian Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Louvain (Nève), and ...

  • MICHELS, Victor

    MICHELS, Victor. Stassfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt 3.7.1866 — Jena 4.2.1929. German Germanist and Linguist. Professor in Jena Son of factory director Friedrich (Fritz) M. (d. 1872) and Martha Kullak. Gymnasium and from 1884 ...

  • MICHELSON, Truman

    MICHELSON, Truman. New Rochelle, NY 11.8.1879 — Washington, DC 26.7.1938. U.S. Ethnologist and Linguist, interested in MIA. Professor in Washington DC. ...

  • MIGOT, André

    MIGOT, André. Paris 28.2.1892 — Villejuif 17.2.1967. French Physician and Traveller. Dr.med. In WW I served as medical officer. Then physician in Paris. In 1938-39 visited Afghanistan and India. During WW ...

  • MIHALCESCU, Ioan

    MIHALCESCU, Ioan (Metropolit Irineu). Valea Viei, Pătârlagele 24.7.1874 — Agapia 5.4.1948. Romanian Orthodox Theologian and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Son of Ioan, a ...

  • MIHANOVIĆ, Antun

    MIHANOVIĆ Petropoljski, Antun. Klanjec 10.6.1796 — Novi Dvori 14.11.1861. Austrian (Croatian) Nationalist Author. Born in a noble family. Studied law at Vienna until ...

  • MIKLOSICH, Franz Xaver, Ritter von

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

  • MILDENHALL (Midnall), John

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

  • MILES, William

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

  • MILEWSKI, Tadeusz

    MILEWSKI, Tadeusz. Kołomyja 17.5.1906 — Cracow 5.3.1966. Polish IE, Slavic, Amerindian and General Linguist. Professor in Cracow. Son of Feliks M., a physician. In ...

  • MILL, James

    MILL (born Milne), James. Northwater Bridge, Logie Pert, Angus 6.4.1773 — Kensington (London) 23.6.1836. British (Scottish) Politician, Philosopher, and ...

  • MILL, William Hodge

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

  • MILLER, Barbara Stoler

    MILLER, Barbara Stoler. New York 8.8.1940 — New York 19.4.1993. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New York. Educated at Great Neck High ...

  • MILLER, Boris Vsevolodovič

    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

    MILLER, Vsevolod Fedorovič. Moscow 7.(19.)4.1848 — St.Petersburg 5.(18.)11.1913. Russian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Son of poet Fëdor Bogdanovič M., grew up in Moscow. ...

  • MILLER, Walter

    MILLER, Samuel Walter. Ashland County, Ohio 5.5.1864 — Columbia, Missouri 28.7.1949. U.S. Linguist and Classical Scholar. Son of agrarian family. A.M. 1884 Michigan, further studies at Leipzig against his ...

  • MILLER, William

    MILLER, William. 18?? — 1???. Rev. British Missionary in Orissa. Arrived at Cuttack in 1845 with his wife (d. 1848). Still working in Cuttack in 1890, but died before his second ...

  • MILLOÜÉ, Léon-Joseph de

    MILLOÜÉ, Léon-Joseph de. Colmar, Alsace 30.6.1842 — 1917 (or 192?). French Indologist and ...

  • MILLS, J. Philip

    MILLS, James Philip. Cheshire 18.2.1890 — Dorset 12.5.1960. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of James Edward ...

  • MILLS, Lawrence Heyworth

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

  • MILMAN, Henry Hart

    MILMAN, Henry Hart. London 10.2.1791 — Sunning Hill, Berkshire 24.9.1868. Rev. British Priest and Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Son of Sir ...

  • MILNE, William Stanley

    MILNE, William Stanley. 1875 — 1917. British Civil Servant in India, where he stayed c. 1900-1917, in Bengal. Letters and papers in British ...

  • MILTNER, Vladimír

    MILTNER, Vladimír. Plzeň 6.7.1933 — Mathura 13.1.1997. Czech Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar). After gymnasium in Karlovy Vary studies at Prague. ...

  • MILWARD, Marguerite

    MILWARD, Marguerite. Near Birmingham 1873 — 11.2.1953. British Artist. Educated at the art schools of Birmingham and Bromsgrove, further studies in Paris. Before WW I in Sri Lanka. “As a sculptress ...

  • MINAEV (Minayeff), Ivan Pavlovič

    MINAEV (Minayeff), Ivan Pavlovič. Tambov 9.(21.)10.1840 — St.Petersburg 1.(13.)6. 1890. Russian Indologist. Professor in St.Petersburg. Son of a modest official, educated ...

  • MINARD, Armand

    MINARD, Armand. Paris 30.12.1906 — 17.4.1998. French Indologist. Professor in Lyon and Paris. Son of a modest trader. In 1927-32 studies ...

  • MINDEROVIĆ, Čedomir

    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

    MINORSKY, Vladimir (Vladimir Fedorovič Minorskij). Korčeva, obl. Tver 6.12.1877 — Cambridge 25.3.1966. Russian Persian Scholar in the U.K. Professor in London. Educated in ...

  • MINTURN, A. Leigh

    MINTURN, Ann Leigh. Chicago 1.7.1928 — 31.10.1999. U.S. Cross-Cultural Scholar. Daughter of Harold D. Minturn and Emma Hamsher. Graduated 1949 from Mount Holyoke College. M.A. 1952 and Ph.D. 1954 Radcliffe College, in ...

  • MIRONAS, Ričardas

    MIRONAS, Ričardas Gabrielius. Zaysan, Kazakhstan 5.4.1908 — Vilnius 26.4.1979. Lithuanian Linguist and Classical Philologist interested in Sanskrit and Comparative IE. Professor in Vilnius. ...

  • MIRONOV, Nikolaj Dmitrievič

    MIRONOV, Nikolaj Dmitrievič. Dresden, Germany 25.9.(13.9.)1880 — Ariana, Tunisia 1936. Russian Indologist. Son of Dmitrij Gavrilovič M. After Gymnasium in St.Petersburg ...

  • MISIEWICZ, Władysław

    MISIEWICZ, Władysław. Lemberg (L’viv) 11.4.1910 — 1.11.1997. Polish Bauddha. After matriculation worked in various clerical posts, finally as the head of a reference library in Radom. In the WW II served ...

  • MISTELI, Franz

    MISTELI, Franz. Aesch, Solothurn 11.3.1841 — Brunnen 6.10.1903. Swiss IE, Indo-Iranian and Classical Scholar. Professor in Basel. Son of Clement Calixt M. and ...

  • MITCHELL, A. Norval

    MITCHELL, Alfred Norval. 18.12.1906 — 1988. British Civil Servant in India. Joined I.C.S. in 1930, 1934 transferred to Political Service. Until 1947 Administrator of Bastar State. Married, at least one son.

    MITCHELL, J. Murray

    MITCHELL, John Murray. Garvock near Aberdeen 19.8.1815 — Leith, Edinburgh 14.11.1904. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of ...

  • MITSCHERLICH, Eilhard

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

  • MLADENOW, Stefan

    MLADENOW, Stefan. Vidin 27.12.1880 — Sofia 1.5.1963. Bulgarian IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Sofia. After school in Vidin studies in 1898-1902 at ...

  • MOBERLY, Arthur Norman

    MOBERLY, Arthur Norman. New Alresford, Hampshire 1873 — Southwark, Surrey 24.5.1934. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Cornelius M. and Caroline Hunter. Educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford (M.A.). ...

  • MODAVE, Louis Laurent de Féderbe, Count de

    MODAVE, Louis Laurent de Féderbe, Count de (Fayd’herbe de Maudave).Château du Fayet, Barraux (Isère) 22.6.1725 — Masulipatam 22.12.1777. French Nobleman, Officer and Traveller. Son of colonel Jean Charles Nicolas F., C. de M. ...

  • MODDER, Frank

    MODDER, Frank (Francis Huson Lowe). Colombo 4.6.1861 — 5.6.1916. British Colonial Officer in Sri Lanka. Major. Member of the Ceylon Branch of Royal ...

  • MODE, Heinz

    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, Hermann Fr.

    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

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

  • MÖHRKE, Edwin

    MÖHRKE, Edwin. 1??? — 1960?. German Student of Indology. In 1923 he was student of philology at Marburg (joined D.M.G.). Ph.D. 1933? Königsberg. In 1934 living in Berlin (again joined D.M.G.). ...

  • MOLÉ, Marijan

    MOLÉ, Marijan. Ljubljana 28.7.1924 — Paris 6.5.1963. Slovenian/Polish Iranian Scholar in Paris. Son of the Slovenian author and art historian Vojeslav ...

  • MOLESWORTH, James Thomas

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

  • MØLLER (Möller), Hermann

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

  • MØLLER-KRISTENSEN, Frede

    MØLLER-KRISTENSEN, Frede. Nr. Herlev 6.1.1933 — 21.2.2003. Danish Indologist. M.A. 1960 Copenhagen. She contributed to the C.P.D. in the 1950s and was its editor in the 1960s. In 1966-72 also ...

  • MOLONY, Arthur Deane

    MOLONY, Arthur Deane. 7.4.1879 — Kallincong (?), India 1.9.1931. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Rev. Charles Arthur M. (1826–1894) and Mary Parker. Educated in Canterbury. Major of Gurkha Rifles. ...

  • MOLZ, Marcellinus

    MOLZ, Marcellinus (born Otto Molz). Kappel, Freiburg i. Br. 7.8.1873 — St.Nazianz near Milwaukee, Wisconsin 4.10.1961. S.D.S. Father. German Catholic Missionary in India. Son of Johann Molz, a farmer and local Major, ...

  • MONAHAN, Francis John

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

  • MONCHANIN, Jules (Swami Paramarubyananda)

    MONCHANIN, Jules (Swami Paramarubyananda). Fleurie-en-Beaujolais 10.4.1895 — Paris 10.10.1957. Father. French Catholic Priest, Monk and Hermit, an ardent proponent of Hindu-Christian interfaith dialogue. Son ...

  • MONEY, David

    MONEY, David Inglis. Bombay 25.10.1809 — 16.7.1880. British Civil Servant in Bengal. Son of William Taylor M. and Eugenia Money. Educated at Charterhouse School, studies at Cambridge (Trinity College). Served in Bengal ...

  • MONEY, George Wigram Pocklington

    MONEY, George Wigram Pocklington. Jhelum 1888 — Los Angeles 16.10.1955. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Captain George Alfred M. and Constance Pocklington. Captain in Third Gurkha Rifles, served in ...

  • MONFRINI, Stefano

    MONFRINI, Stefano. 1885 — 1960. Italian Catholic Missionary in India. From 1910 sixteen years missionary among Santals.

    Publications: La Tribù dei Santal. 143 p. Milano 1929.

    – Account of the ...

  • MONIÉ-BÉNISTI, Mireille

    MONIÉ-BÉNISTI, Mireille —> BÉNISTI, Mireille

  • MONIER-WILLIAMS, Monier

    MONIER-WILLIAMS, Monier. Bombay 12.11.1819 — Cannes, France 11.4.1899. Sir. British Indologist. Professor in Oxford. Third son of Colonel M. W. (R.E., ...

  • MONNERET DE VILLARD, Ugo

    MONNERET DE VILLARD, Ugo. Milano 16.1.1881 — Rome 5.11.1954. Italian Archaeologist, Art Historian and Oriental Scholar, a specialist of Egypt anf Ethiopia, but ...

  • MONOD-BRUHL, Odette

    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, daughter of Henri ...

  • MONSERRATE, Antonio de

    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

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

  • MONTEITH, William

    MONTEITH, William. Abbey parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire 22.6.1790 — London 18.4.1864. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Diplomat and Historian in India. Major-General (1841). Son of William Monteith and Janet Goodwin. From 1809 Lieutenant ...

  • MONTESI, Giancarlo

    MONTESI, Giancarlo. 1928 — 1983. Italian Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. 1954 Rome, under Pettazzoni. Worked at La Sapienzà teaching comparative religion.

    Publications: Diss. Tamas – Usas – Rtà. .

    – “II valore ...

  • MONTOLIÚ Y TOGORES, Francisco de

    MONTOLIÚ Y TOGORES, Francisco de. Tarragona 9.2.1861 — 10.5.1892. Spanish Professor at the School of Agricultural Engineering in Madrid, but also a Theosophist, the founder of the Spanish Theosophical Society (1889/91). ...

  • MONTRIOU, William Austin

    MONTRIOU, William Austin. 1810 — 1885. British Lawyer in India. Son of William M. and Mary Ann Carvick. Called to bar from Inner Temple in 1837. Advocate in Calcutta High Court. Married ...

  • MOOR, Edward

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

  • MOORCROFT, William

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

  • MOORE, Charles A.

    MOORE, Charles Alexander. 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

    MOORE, Justin Hartley. 1884 — 19??. U.S. Indologist. A.M. 190? and Ph.D. 1908 Columbia University, New York (under Jackson). Later on, ...

  • MOORE, Osbert (Ñānamoli Thera)

    MOORE, Osbert John S. (Ñānamoli Thera). Cambridge 25.6.1905 — Veheragama near Mahawa 8.3.1960. British Bauddha and Buddhist Scholar. Lived in Sri ...

  • MOORE, Robert Ripley

    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

    MOORE, Ross Arthur Leslie. Faizabad, Andhra Pradesh 1.5.1861 — 1950. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Irish Colonel John Leslie M. Educated at Dulwich College. Studies at Cambridge (Peterhouse). Served ...

  • MORDTMANN, Andreas David

    MORDTMANN, Andreas David. Hamburg 11.2.1811 — Constantinople 30.12.1879. German Diplomat, Oriental Scholar and Epigraphist. Lived in Constantinople from 1845. Son of Jens M. ...

  • MORÉCHAND, Guy

    MORÉCHAND, Guy. Paris 1923 — 2002. French Anthropologist. Licencié ès lettres 1948 in Anthropology. Ph.D. 1966 Paris. From 1950 member of É.F.É.O. in Hanoi, 1957-63 in Japan, later in Paris and ...

  • MORELAND, William Harrison

    MORELAND, William Harrison. Belfast 13.7.1868 — Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 28.9.1938. British Historian of Islamic India. Born in Northern Ireland, ...

  • MORGENSTIERNE, Georg

    MORGENSTIERNE, Georg  Valentin von Munthe af. Christiania (Oslo) 3.1.1892 — Oslo 3.3.1978. Norwegian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Oslo. Son of Professor (lawyer) Bredo von Munthe af M. and Bertha ...

  • MORIARTY, Gerald Patrick

    MORIARTY, Gerald Patrick. 1.4.1863 — Cambridge 21.6.1924. British Historian. Son of Stephen Stack M., educated at Brighton College. From 1881 studies at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1885). Worked as tutor in ...

  • MORICI, Giuseppe

    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 ...

  • MORINI, Giuseppe

    MORINI, Giuseppe. 18?? — 1???. Italian interested in Sanskrit, fl. in the 1880s. One G.M. (1842–1923) was gymnasium professor in Faenza in 1873, when he published the textbook Precetti di letteratura ...

  • MORISON, James

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

  • MORISY, John

    MORISY, John. 1??? — 1???. Unidentified. On title pages he is simply called Mr. One JM was born in Bohonuya Callan, Kilkenny in 1826. Probably another was physician in Dublin 1845. ...

  • MORLAND-HUGHES, Walter Robert James

    MORLAND-HUGHES, Walter Robert James. Dover 7.5.1923 — Dehra Dun 7.11.1947. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Charles Morland Cunynghame Hughes and Elsie Louise Ginn. Captain of Gurkha Rifles. Died of polio.

  • MORLEY, Grace L. McCann

    MORLEY, Grace Louise McCann. Berkeley, CAL 3.11.1900 — New Delhi 8.1.1985. U.S. Art Historian and Museologist. Educated at St.Helena, Napa county. Studies of ...

  • MORLEY, William Hook

    MORLEY, William Hook. 1815 — London 21.5.1860. British Oriental Scholar. Son of George M., a lawyer. “Educated for the legal profession, called to ...

  • MORRIS, Henry

    MORRIS, Henry. 22.4.1829 — 1912. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of —> John Carnac M. “Educated at Rugby and Haileybury, ...

  • MORRIS, John

    MORRIS, John. 1895 — 13.12.1980. British Colonial Officer and Social Anthropologist in India. Served in army in 1915-34, after WW I in India. Retired as Major. From 1938 Professor of English ...

  • MORRIS, John Carnac

    MORRIS, John Carnac. Madras 16.10.1798 — Jersey 2.8.1858. British Civil Servant and Telugu Scholar in South India. Son of John M., of Bombay ...

  • MORRIS, Richard

    MORRIS, Richard. Bermondsey, London 8.9.1833 — Harold Wood, Essex 12.5.1894. British Philologist, Scholar of Early English and Pāli. Born in a ...

  • MORRISON, John

    MORRISON, John. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. M.A., B.D. In 1889-1904 Principal of Scottish Church College in Calcutta. In 1904 Alexander Robertson Lecturer at Glasgow and Gunning ...

  • MORRO, Felice

    MORRO, Felice. 18?? — 1???. Italian. interested in Sanskrit, fl. in the 1870s.

    Publications: Vālmīki. Tre capitoli dell’ Araṇyakāṇḍa o e 3° libro del Rāmāyaṇa, tradotti. 30 p. Schenone (Genoa) 1874.

  • MORTON SMITH, Ronald

    MORTON SMITH, Ronald —> SMITH, Ronald Morton

  • MORTON, William

    MORTON, William. 1794 — 18??. Rev. Irish Missionary in India. In Cossipore, for a while also in Chinsura, working for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. In 1826 he is ...

  • MOSKALEV, Vladimir Sergeevič

    MOSKALEV, Vladimir Sergeevič. Lugansk (Luhansk in Ukraina) 15/28.7.1906 — 14.7.1982. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist, specialist of Urdu. Son of an official, graduated 1934 from ...

  • MOSS(-BLUNDELL),  Spence

    MOSS(-BLUNDELL),  Arthur Spence. Hessle near Hull 1853 — Winchester, Hampshite 5.12.1950. British Engineer in Sri Lanka. Son of William Henry Moss and Eliza Charlotte Blundell. In 1883 went from Ceylon to Selangot ...

  • MOSSEL, Jacob

    MOSSEL, Jacob. Enkhuizen 28.11.1704 — Batavia (Jakarta) 15.5.1761. Dutch Colonial Officer in India. Born in a noble family, son of Pieter Jakobsz M. ...

  • MOSZKOWSKI, Max

    MOSZKOWSKI, Max. Breslau 12.8.1873 — Rio de Janeiro 1939. German Physician, Anthropologist and Collector. M.D. 1899 Breslau. In 1907 in Ceylon, Sumatra and western New Guinea, collected botanical and zoological specimens, ...

  • MOULTON, James Hope

    MOULTON, James Hope. Surrey 11.10.1863 — on sea off Corsica 7.4.1917. Rev. British Iranian Scholar. Professor in Manchester. Son of Rev. ...

  • MOUSSET, Louis-Marie

    MOUSSET, Louis-Marie. Sanzay (Deux-Sèvres) 7.2.1808 — Pondichéry 8.2.1888. Father. French Tamil Scholar, Missionary in South India. Ordained 1834 and left to ...

  • MOUW, Johan Andréas dèr

    MOUW, Johan Andréas dèr (nom-de-plume Dèr Mouw or Adwaita). Westerwoort near Arnhem 24.7.1863 — ’s-Gravenhage ...

  • MOZAC (Mosac), Antoine

    MOZAC (Mosac), Antoine. Clermont 17.12.1704 — Pondichéry 4.12.1779. S.J. French Missionary in India. Entered S.J. in 1720, came to India 1735. ...

  • MUCH, Hans

    MUCH, Hans. Zechlin/Neuruppin, Brandenburg 24.3.1880 — Hamburg 28.11.1932. German Bauddha. Son of Karl Much, a minister, and Martha Lindner. Studies of medicine at ...

  • MUDRA, Stanislav

    MUDRA, Stanislav. Plzeň 6.5.1910 — 1???. Czech Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1936/37 Prague (under Pertold). One St.M. died in Prague 1960.

    Publications: Diss. Funkcehlavy vnáboženství a jak se jeví u některých kmenů ...

  • MÜHLL(-KERN), Wilhelm von der

    MÜHLL(-KERN), Wilhelm von der. 22.8.1852 — 3.7.1923. Swiss Student of IE Linguistics. Son of Karl Georg v.d.M. and Emilie Merian. Studies at Basel. Married 1877 Emma Sophie Kern, one son.

    MUIR, John

    MUIR, John. Glasgow 5.2.1810 — Edinburgh 7.3.1882. British (Scottish) Indologist in India (1829-54) and in Edinburgh. Son of William Muir (d. ...

  • MUIRHEAD-THOMSON, R. C.

    MUIRHEAD-THOMSON, Robert Charles. Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire 2.5.1914 — 4.10.2000. British Naturalist. Son of Rev. John M.-Th. Educated at Edinburgh and Kelvinside Academies. From 1932 studies of botany and zoology at Glasgow, B.Sc. ...

  • MÜLLER-HESS, Eduard

    MÜLLER-HESS, Eduard (until 1882 E. Müller). Berlin 14.4.1853 — Bern 9.7.1923. German Indologist in Switzerland. Professor in ...

  • MÜLLER, E. H.

    MÜLLER, E. H. 18?? — 19??. German Missionary. Dr.theol. Apparently also studied under E. Kuhn at Munich. In India as early ...

  • MÜLLER, Eduard

    MÜLLER, Eduard —> MÜLLER-HESS, Eduard.

  • MÜLLER, F. Max

    MÜLLER, Friedrich Max. Dessau 6.12.1823 — Oxford 28.10.1900. German Indologist, Linguist and Scholar of Comparative Religion in ...

  • MÜLLER, F. W. K.

    MÜLLER, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl. Neudamm ...

  • MÜLLER, Friedrich

    MÜLLER, Friedrich. Jemnick (Jemníky), Kr. Butzlau, Bohemia (Czech) 6.3.1834 — Vienna 25.5.1898. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Professor in Vienna. Born ...

  • MÜLLER, Gerhard Heinrich

    MÜLLER, Gerhard Heinrich. 18?? — 19??. German Teacher of Classics. In 1876/83 at Wongrowitz gymnasium in Posen (now Wągrowiec in Poland), 1898/1900 at Saargemünd Gymnasium (now Sarreguemines in Lorraine). Married, at ...

  • MÜLLER, Herbert

    MÜLLER, Herbert. Gumbinnen, Ostpreussen (now Russian Gusev) 29.8.1885 — Bonn 9.8.1966. German Sinologist, Lawyer, Journalist and Art Dealer. Dr.jur. 1909 Bonn, with Indian theme. Also studied Chinese. Employed by Berlin Völkerkundemuseum ...

  • MÜLLER, Karl Otfried

    MÜLLER, Karl Otfried. Brieg, Silesia (now Brzeg in Poland) 28.8.1797 — Athens 1.8.1840. German Philologist. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Karl Daniel M. ...

  • MÜLLER, Marcus Joseph

    MÜLLER, Marcus Joseph. Kempten 3.6.1809 — Munich 28.3.1874. German Oriental (Arabic) Scholar, Pioneer of Pahlavi Philology. Professor in Munich. Son of a gymnasium ...

  • MÜLLER, Niklas

    MÜLLER, Niklas (Nikolaus). Mainz 6.5.1770 (not 14.5.) — Mainz 14.6.1851. Germain Painter and Scholar. Son of shopkeeper Johann M. and Katharina Erlenbach. Studies ...

  • MÜLLER, Reinhold F. G.

    MÜLLER, Reinhold Franz Gustav. Berlin 16.4.1882 — Einsiedel bei Chemnitz 2.2.1966. German (East) ...

  • MUNDY, Peter

    MUNDY, Peter. Before 1609 — after 1667. British Trader and Traveller. From Penryn in Cornwall, son of a pilchard trader. In 1611 he ...

  • MUNK, Salomon

    MUNK, Salomon. Gross-Glogau, Silesia (now Glogów, Poland) 2.5.1802 — Paris 5/6.2.(14.5.?)1867. German Oriental Scholar in France. Professor in Paris. Born in a Jewish ...

  • MURDOCH, John

    MURDOCH, John. Glasgow 22.7.1819 — Madras 10.8.1904. British (Scottish) Missionary in Sri Lanka and India. Son of John and Margret Murdoch, educated at Glasgow High School. After an unsuccesful attempt as ...

  • MURPHY, John D.

    MURPHY, John D. Buffalo, NY 1921 — 24.7.1997. U.S. Linguist. Educated in Buffalo, studies at Harvard. In WW II translator of Japanese in Army Signal Corps in Arlington. In 1964-78 Research Professor ...

  • MURPHY, Robert Xavier

    MURPHY, Robert Xavier. 1803 — Kingstown, Dublin 26.2.1857. Irish Teacher, Journalist, Classical and Oriental Scholar in India. “He went out to Bombay as ...

  • MURRAY, Alexander

    MURRAY, Alexander. Dunkitterick, Kirkcudbrightshire 22.10.1775 — Edinburgh 15.4.1813. British (Scottish) Philologist and Oriental Scholar. Son of Robert Murray, a shepherd and farm labourer. ...

  • MURRAY, Donald S.

    MURRAY, Donald Shipley. 1916 — 1990. U.S. Statistician apparently interested in South Asia. Studied economics: B.S., 1937; A.M., 1944; Ph. D., 1944. Professor ...

  • MUS, Paul

    MUS, Paul Léon Joseph. Bourges (Cher) 1.6.1902 — Murs (Vaucluse) 9.8.1969. French Art Historian, Sociologist and Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son ...

  • MUUSSES, Martha A.

    MUUSSES, Martha Adriana. Purmerend 27.9.1894 — Laren, North Holland 27.10.1981. Dutch Indologist. Daughter of Jan M. (d. 1909), a bookseller, and ...

  • MYER, Prudence R.

    MYER, Prudence R. 21.12.1920 — 27.4.2001. U.S. Art Historian. Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College (1956), Professor of Art at Tulane University (1963), Associate Professor of Art at University of California, ...

  • MYRIANTHEUS, Laurentios

    MYRIANTHEUS, Laurentios (Λαυρέντιος Μυριανθεύς). 18?? — 1???. Cypriote Scholar. From Lefkosia (Nicosia), educated at Rhizareios Ekklêsiastikê Scholê (in Athens). Studies at ...

  • MŽIK, Hans von

    MŽIK, Hans von. Rzeszów, Galicia (now in Poland) 24.7.1876 — Vienna 4.3.1961. Austrian Historian of Geography. PD 1917 Vienna “für historische Geographie des Orients”. Ao. Professor 1929, from 1935 ...

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