Karl Rudolf Marx (1857 – Ladakh, 1891) was a German eye doctor who was the first Moravian medical missionary in Tibet. He was also a Tibetologist and translated parts of the Ladakh Chronicles into German, improving on the work of Emil Schlagintweit.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Marx and his two children died of typhoid in Leh in 1891, his wife survived and returned to Herrnhut.[7]
