August Friedrich Caemmerer Explained
| August Friedrich Caemmerer |
| Birth Date: | 1767 |
| Death Date: | 1837 |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Occupation: | Missionary |
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
Notes and References
- Book: Ebeling
, Sascha
. Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India . SUNY Press . 2010 . Albany, New York . 24 . en . 978-1-4384-3199-4 .
- Book: Robert Eric Frykenberg and Alaine M. Low (Eds.)
. Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication Since 1500 . Psychology Press/Routledge . 2003 . New York . 70 . en . 0-7007-1600-9 .
- Book: Sanjeevi
, N.
. Bibliography on Tirukkural. In First All India Tirukkural Seminar Papers . University of Madras . 1973 . Chennai . 146 .
