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Joshua Marshman (20 April 1768 – 6 December 1837) was a Baptist missionary in Bengal, India from 1799 until his death. He was a member of the Serampore trio with William Carey and William Ward.
Jul 4, 2011 · Joshua Marshman was an accomplished scholar, linguist and theologian and was a prolific author and polemicist. After learning Bengali and Sanskrit, Marshman and William Carey published through the Serampore Press, the Bengali form of The Ramayuna of Valmeeki, (Vol. I-1806, Vol. II-1808).
Marshman, Joshua. 1768 - 1837. Missionary, Bible translator, educationist. India. Joshua Marshman was born on April 20, 1768 to John Marshman and Mary Couzener at Westbury Leigh, in Wiltshire. His father was a seaman turned weaver, and owing to his humble circumstances could only afford his son a basic education available in the village.
Joshua Marshman | missionary | Britannica. Contents. Joshua Marshman. missionary. Learn about this topic in these articles: Christian missions. In Christianity: Missions to Asia. …century in India, William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward—the Serampore trio—worked just north of Calcutta (now Kolkata).
The Serampore Trio was the name given to three pioneering English missionaries in India, namely William Carey (1761-1834), a shoemaker, Joshua Marshman, (1768-1837), a schoolteacher, and William Ward (1769-1823), a printer.
Jan 5, 2024 · In 1814, Joshua Marshman (1768-1837), an English Baptist in Serampore in India, published a Chinese grammar in which a long section was in-tended to give a systematic account of the prestige pronunciation of the Chinese language of his time.
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Mar 16, 2022 · This article evaluates the pioneering works on Chinese historical phonology by Joshua Marshman (1768–1837), who is routinely credited as the first scholar to have produced a romanisation of the Chinese language for English speakers.
