August Friedrich Caemmerer (1767–1837) was a

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missionary in

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. He is known as the first translator of the

Kural The ''Tirukkuṟaḷ'' ( ta, திருக்குறள், lit=sacred verses), or shortly the ''Kural'' ( ta, குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. The text ...

into

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August Friedrich Caemmerer arrived in

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on 14 May 1791 as part of the Danish-Halle Mission, better known as the Tranquebar Mission. 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Caemmerer, August Friedrich Tamil–German translators 1767 births 1837 deaths Translators of the Tirukkural into German Tirukkural translators 18th-century translators

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