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Early life
Hermann Gundert was born in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg on February 4, 1814, the third child of Ludwig Gundert and Christiana Enslin. Ludwig was the Secretary of the Bible Society.
In 1823, the senior Gundert launched a magazine named Stuttgart Mission Magazine, which also became young Gundert’s initiation into the world of printing and publishing. Hermann studied in the famous Latin school at Maulbronn. Hebrew, Latin, English, and French were part of his course. He was also proficient in music and could play the organ, piano, and violin.
Following his studies at Maulbronn, Gundert joined the University of Tuebingen in 1831. Gundert learnt Sanskrit here, as part of the course leading to a doctoral degree in Philology, which he earned in 1835.
Journey to India
Hired to be a private tutor to the children of a missionary, Anton Groves, in the spring of 1836, 22-year old Hermann Gundert, boarded a ship, Perfect, that was to set sail from Bristol in Britain to India. On the ship Gundert began to learn Bengali and Hindi. The retinue of his empl
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Herman Gundert
Hermann Gundert was born in Stuttgart in Germany on 4 February 1814. He became a missionary, scholar, and linguist. His name found a place in the history of Malayalam journalism as the one who started the first Malayalam newspaper, Rajyasamacharam in 1847 from Illikkunnu in Thalassery.
Gundert had left Germany at the age of 22 for missionary work in India. He reached Madras in 1836. Joining Basel Mission he reached Mangalore. Travelling to various places in southern India he found a good place to settle down in Illikkunnu near Thalassery. He lived there for twenty years and during that period made remarkable
contributions to Malayalam journalism and language. Besides Rajyasamacharam he launched another newspaper Pashchimodayam as an easy way to spread Gospel and for missionary works. His helper Frederick Muller was the editor of the newspaper.
Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (1859), and contributed to work on Bible translations into Malayalam. Gundert also contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronom
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Hermann Gundert
German missionary, scholar, and linguist
Dr. Hermann Gundert | |
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| Born | (1814-02-04)4 February 1814 Stuttgart, Württemberg |
| Died | 25 April 1893(1893-04-25) (aged 79) Calw, Württemberg, German Empire |
| Monuments | Gundert Statue, Tellichery |
| Organization | Basel Mission |
| Known for | Proselytizing Christianity, Contributions to Malayalam language |
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| Relatives | Hermann Hesse (grandson) |
Hermann Gundert (Stuttgart, 4 February 1814 – 25 April 1893) was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the maternal grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureateHermann Hesse. Gundert is chiefly known for his contributions as an Indologist, and compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (1859), in which he developed and constricted the grammar spoken by the Malayalis, nowadays; a Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed to work on Bible translations into Malayalam. He worked primarily at Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, in
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