August Friedrich Caemmerer

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.

August Friedrich Caemmerer
Born1767
Died1837
NationalityDutch
OccupationMissionary

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
  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. 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.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  3. Sanjeevi, N. (1973). Bibliography on Tirukkural. In First All India Tirukkural Seminar Papers. Chennai: University of Madras. p. 146.
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