August Friedrich Caemmerer (1767–1837) was a Danish missionary in South India.[1] He is known as the first translator of the Kural into German.
Biography
August Friedrich Caemmerer arrived in Tranquebar on 14 May 1791 as part of the Danish-Halle Mission, better known as the Tranquebar Mission.[2] He translated the first two book of the Kural into German and published it in 1803.[3] He died in 1837 as the last missionary of the Tranquebar Mission.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India{{#if:Ebeling|, Ebeling}. SUNY Press(2010). ISBN 978-1-4384-3199-4
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication Since 1500{{#if:Robert Eric Frykenberg and Alaine M. Low (Eds.)|, Robert Eric Frykenberg and Alaine M. Low (Eds.)}. Psychology Press/Routledge(2003). ISBN 0-7007-1600-9
- ↑ 'Bibliography on Tirukkural. In First All India Tirukkural Seminar Papers{{#if:Sanjeevi|, Sanjeevi}. University of Madras(1973)
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