August Friedrich Caemmerer

August Friedrich Caemmerer
Born 1767
Died 1837
Nationality Dutch
Occupation Missionary

August Friedrich Caemmerer (1767–1837) was a Danish missionary in South India.[1]

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. 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. 1 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.
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