Karl Marx (medical missionary)
Karl Rudolf Marx (1857 – Ladakh, 1891) was a German eye doctor who was the first Moravian medical missionary in Tibet. He was also a Tibetologist and translated parts of the Ladakh Chronicles into German, improving on the work of Emil Schlagintweit.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Marx and his two children died of typhoid in Leh in 1891, his wife survived and returned to Herrnhut.[7]
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- ^ Recent Research on Ladakh 6: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference - Henry Osmaston, Nawang Tsering, International Association for Ladakh Studies - 1997 Page 182 "Nach Wilhelm Heyde war es besonders der Arzt Carl Rudolf Marx (1857-1891), der die medizinische Betreuung im Rahmen der Missionsarbeit am Krankenhaus in Leh vorantrieb. Seine großen Erfolge hatte er in der Behandlung der häufigen ..."
- ^ Dr. Karl Marx of the Moravian Mission
- ^ August Hermann Francke - Antiquities of Indian Tibet 1914 "Dr. K. Marx, Moravian missionary at Leh, soon saw the insufficiency of Schlagintweit's translation. At the same time he discovered at Leh two MSS. which contained fuller accounts of the times subsequent to A.D. 1620. He even induced a ..."
- ^ Prem Singh Jina Tourism in Ladakh Himalaya 1994 Page 42 "In the following year Bower travelled to Ladakh and published his travel accounts of Ladakh in 1893.38 In April 1887 Dr. Karl Marx arrived in Leh to take over the hospital and clinic which were partly sponsored by the British Government."
- ^ Prem Singh Jina Famous Western Explorers to Ladakh 1995 - Page 142 "F. Redslop established first resident missionary at Leh and started 'Mission School'. Dr. Karl Marx was the first trained missionary doctor."
- ^ Isabella L. Bird Among the Tibetans 2009- Page 39 ... small gardens brilliant with European flowers; and in these the two Moravian missionaries, the only permanent European residents in Leh, were living, Mr. Redslob and Dr. Karl Marx, with their wives. Dr. Marx was at his gate to welcome me."
- ^ Prem Singh Jina Recent Researches on the Himalaya - 1997 - Page 44 "The eldest sister of her mother was married to Dr. Carl Marx who was a eye doctor and was in missionary service in Leh. When Carl Marx died by typhoid, her sister also lost her two children. She came to Herrnhut in great sorrow. In Herrnhut .."