Ma Junwu

Ma Junwu was born in Guilin in 1881 and enlisted in one of the new schools for higher education there.

From 1907 onward, Ma Junwu studied in Berlin, where in 1911 he received his engineering degree in metallurgy.

After holding various political offices in the Chinese Republic, Ma Junwu returned to Berlin in 1914 to study agricultural chemistry and returned to China with his doctorate degree in 1916.

There he resumed leadership positions in various ministries of the government, besides taking up teaching.

[vague] Ma Junwu translated Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species into Chinese.