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Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

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Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
Born1865 (1865)
Died1937
NationalitySri Lankan
Scientific career
FieldsEpigraphy
Archaeology

Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe (1865–1937) was an epigraphist and archaeologist of Sri Lanka.[1] He studied at Richmond College, Galle.[2] Subsequently, he worked as an assistant to H. C. P. Bell and 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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  1. ^ Wickremasinghe's death reported in Paranavitana, "Preface," Epigraphia Zeylanica; 4 (1934-1941) (London, 1943); p. iii.
  2. ^ "Don Martino De Zilva Wickremasinghe (1865-1937) — Savant, Linguist and Epigraphist … with Notes about HCP Bell, Archaeologist (1851-1937)". September 18, 2014.
  3. ^ Review of Epigraphia Zeylanica, vol. 1 by E. Müller in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Jan., 1905), pp. 183-186.
  4. ^ Senarath Paranavitana, "Preface," Epigraphia Zeylanica 3 (1928-1933) (London, 1933): p. iii.
  5. ^ Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe, Catalogue of the Sinhalese printed books in the library of the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1901). Online catalogue: http://copac.ac.uk/search?&author=Don+Martino+de+Zilva+Wickremasinghe+&sort-order=ti%2C-date
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