Basel Evangelical School, or BEM School, is a school in Car Street in

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city in the state of

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. It was established in the year 1838 by the Basel Evangelical Mission. K. S. Hegde and Kayyar Kinhanna Rai have studied in this institution.

History

Basel Evangelical School is one of the oldest educational institutes in South India, and in the year 2013, it had 480 students, from lower primary to the pre-university classes. Established in 1838 by German Christian missionaries, the high school section was added in 1888. It received permanent recognition from the Madras government in 1940. Since 1959, the school is managed by South Kanara Educational and Cultural Society.

Ferdinand Kittel Ferdinand Kittel (7 April 1832 – 18 December 1903) 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 languag ...

, who composed the

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

-English dictionary, taught here.

References

{{reflist High schools and secondary schools in Karnataka Christian schools in Karnataka Schools in Mangalore Schools in Dakshina Kannada district Educational institutions established in 1838