Gottfried Weigle (1816–1855) was a German missionary to Karnataka who translated the Bible into Kannada. He was based in Dharwad, under the Basel Mission in Mangalore. Herrmann Moegling, a fellow student from Tübingen also worked on translation projects.

Ferdinand Kittel Reverend Ferdinand Kittel was a Lutheran priest and indologist with the Basel Mission in south India and worked in Mangalore, Madikeri and Dharwad in Karnataka. He is most famous for his studies of the Kannada language and for producing a Kannada ...

worked more independently. He also undertook vaccination work in 1846.Paul Hockings ''Sex and disease in a mountain community'' 1980 "The first missionary to concern himself with medical matters there was the German Gottfried H. Weigle (1816-1885), who vaccinated about 700 Badaga children in 1846 (Mullens 1854: 61). Weigle did not stay long, however, and the later ..." When Weigle died in 1855, his cousin Mögling (at the then late age of 45) married Weigle's wife Pauline.

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Translators of the Bible into Kannada Protestant missionaries in India 1816 births 1855 deaths Christian clergy from Mangalore Kannada-language writers 19th-century translators German Protestant missionaries Christian medical missionaries Missionary linguists {{India-reli-bio-stub