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'''Madhav Julian''' ({{lang-mr|माधव जुलियन}}) (21 January 1894 – 29 November 1939) was the pen name which Madhav Tryambak Patwardhan ({{lang-mr|माधव त्र्यंबक पटवर्धन}}) used in writing [[Marathi people|Marathi]] poetry.<br />
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He hailed from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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]] (Persian) and [[English literature]].<ref name="KarveMcDonald1963">{{cite book|last1=Karve|first1=Dinakar Dhondo|last2=McDonald|first2=Ellen E.|title=The New Brahmans: Five Maharashtrian Families|url=https://archive.org/details/newbrahmansfivem00karv/page/286/mode/2up|year=1963|publisher=University of California Press|pages=287–288|oclc=1036752467}}</ref> 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 (until his untimely death at age 45 in 1939).<br />
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In 1926, he published a Pharsi-Marathi dictionary.<br />
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During his years at Rajaram College, Patwardhan wrote in Marathi a thesis titled ''Chhandorachana'' (छंदोरचना) 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.<br />
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Patwardhan presided over ''[[Marathi Sahitya Sammelan]]'' (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) in [[Jalgaon]] in 1936.<ref>{{cite book|last=Datta|first=Amaresh|authorlink=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Navaratri to Sarvasena|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOsbAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3266|year=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-0-8364-2283-2|pages=3173–3174}}</ref><br />
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==Poetry==<br />
Patwardhan was among pioneers like [[Keshavasuta]], [[Ram Ganesh Gadkari|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'' (सुनीते), ''gazals'' (गज़ल), and ''bhāvageete'' (भावगीते).<br />
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Patwardhan published ten collections of his poems. His first publication titled ''Wiraha-Taranga'' (विरह-तरंग) (1926) was a romantic ''Khandakāvya'' (खंडकाव्य) consisting of 234 ''shloka'' (श्लोक). His next publication titled ''Sudhāraka'' (सुधारक) (1928) contained his satirical 18-chapter ''khandakāvya'' with the theme of social reforms.<br />
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He translated [[Omar Khayyam]]'s [[Rubaʿi]] ([[quatrain]] poems) into Marathi.<ref name="KarveMcDonald1963"/><br />
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==The idea of linguistic purity==<br />
Patwardhan held the idea that Marathi writers must maintain linguistic "purity" in Marathi writing. He wrote a book titled ''BhashaShuddhi-Vivek'' (भाषाशुद्धि-विवेक) on that topic. He listed in it 1,200 words which were prevalent to different degrees in contemporary Marathi literature and which, he thought, ought not to be used any more in Marathi literature.<br />
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(In the above context, his inclusion in his poetry of some unusual words or word combinations like हृद्य मजा, खुर्चीसन्मुख, ज्वानीच्या अरुणोदयीं, and दुरत्यय वाग्यतता stands out, as also his choice of the pen name ''Madhav Julian'' with a "foreign" flavour. He might, however, have assumed the unusual pen name for the very sake of its unusualness.)<br />
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==Legacy==<br />
The Patwardhan Memorial Hall located at [[Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad]] was named after Patwardhan.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of Bombay State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_JFAQAAIAAJ|volume=18|year=1954|publisher=Government Central Press|location=Bombay (India)|page=662}}</ref><br />
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