Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
| Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe | |||||
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| Born | 1865 | ||||
| Died | 1937 | ||||
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1912.03.19 A letter was read from Mr R.R. Marett asking that Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe, Reader in Tamil and Telegu at Oxford University, who was a student for the Diploma of Anthropology, be granted the privilege of becoming an Affiliated Member of the Institute. It was resolved to grant the request so long as Don Wickremasinghe was a student for the Diploma of Anthropology.
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Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe (1865–1937) was an epigraphist and archeologist of Sri Lanka.[1] He studied at Richmond College, Galle.[2] Subsequently, he worked as an assistant to H. C. P. Bell as served as the epigraphist to the Ceylon Government.[3] He became archaeological commissioner after Bell, preceding Senarath Paranavitana in that position. His most important contribution was serving as editor and part author of the first two volumes of Epigraphia Zeylanica, a key source for the early history of Ceylon. He handed responsibility for volume 3 of Epigraphia Zeylanica to Paranavitana "...owing to reasons of health and the multifarious duties at the University of London."[4] During his time in London, Wickremasinghe prepared a catalogue of the Sinhalese books in the library of the British Museum.[5]
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Publications
External Publications
Wickremasinghe, M. d. Z. (1901). "Art. XIII.—The Semitic Origin of the Indian Alphabet." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) 33, no. 2: 301-305.
Wickremasinghe, M. d. Z. (1931). "On the Etymology and Interpretation of Certain Words and Phrases in the Aśoka Edicts." BSOAS 6, no. 2: 545-548.
Tamil grammar self taught
Catalogue of the Sinhalese Manuscripts in the British Museum
