Madhav Julian
Madhav Julian was the pen name which Madhav Tryambak Patwardhan used in writing Marathi poetry.
He hailed from Maharashtra, India.
Biography
Patwardhan was born in 1894 in Baroda. He studied in The M.C High School in Baroda. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1916 and 1918, respectively, by specializing in the studies of Pharsi and English literature. During 1918–1924, he taught Pharsi at Fergusson College in Pune, and after serving as a high school teacher for the next four years, he joined Rajaram College in Kolhapur to teach Pharsi there for the next eleven years.In 1926, he published a Pharsi-Marathi dictionary. त्यांनी रवि किरण मंडळ माध्यमातून मराठी कवितेला प्रोत्साहन दिले. त्यांच्या आई कवितेला रसिकांनी खूप मोठा प्रतिसाद दिला. छंदोरचना हा त्यांचा पी एच डी चा प्रबंध जर्मनी मधील विद्यापीठात त्यांनी सादर केला असे ते केवळ एक आणि आजपर्यंत दुसऱ्या कोणीही असे करू शकले नाही असे मराठी कवी होते.
During his years at Rajaram College, Patwardhan wrote in Marathi a thesis titled Chhandorachana and received for it a D.Litt. Degree from Mumbai University in 1939, a few months before his death. He was the first person in India to receive a doctorate in the field of Marathi literature.
Patwardhan presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Jalgaon in 1936.
Poetry
Patwardhan was among pioneers like Keshavasuta, Govindagraj, and Bhaskar Ramchandra Tambe in Marathi literature who introduced romantic poetry to it and also introduced the themes of social and political reforms in Marathi poetry. They further introduced new forms of poetry writing in Marathi, including sonnets, gazals, and bhāvageete.Patwardhan published ten collections of his poems. His first publication titled Wiraha-Taranga was a romantic Khandakāvya consisting of 234 shloka. His next publication titled Sudhāraka contained his satirical 18-chapter khandakāvya with the theme of social reforms.
He translated Omar Khayyam's Rubaʿi into Marathi.