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August Friedrich Caemmerer
Born1767
Died1837
NationalityDutch
OccupationMissionary

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]

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References

  1. ^ Ebeling, Sascha (2010). Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-4384-3199-4.
  2. ^ a b Robert Eric Frykenberg and Alaine M. Low (Eds.) (2003). Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication Since 1500. New York: Psychology Press/Routledge. p. 70. ISBN 0-7007-1600-9.
  3. ^ Sanjeevi, N. (1973). Bibliography on Tirukkural. In First All India Tirukkural Seminar Papers. Chennai: University of Madras. p. 146.
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