Alexander A. Maximow was born in Russia on January 22, 1874. He earned his M.D. at the Imperial Military Academy in St. Petersburg, where he showed a keen interest in morphological problems and won special distinction for his work on the experimental production of amyloid. After two years of study in Berlin and Frieburg, he returned to St. Petersburg in 1902 as Privat-Dozent in pathology. He remained there as professor of histology and embryology from 1903 until 1922, at which point he came to the University of Chicago as aprofessor of anatomy, a position he held until his death in 1928.
Sulpician priest and historian Jean-Léon-Olivier Maurault, born in Sorel, Québec, was ordained in 1910, then finished his studies at the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1911 to 1913. Returning to Montréal, he became vicar of the parish of St. Jacques until 1926 then curé of the prestigious parish of Notre Dame from 1926 to 1929; he served as Superior of the Externat de St. Sulpice (now Collège André Grasset from 1929 to 1934. He was rector of the Université de Montréal from 1934 to 1955. Throughout his career he wrote numerous scholarly books and articles on the topics of art history and the religious history of Canada. In 1943 he was elected president of the Société Royale du Canada.
