August Friedrich Caemmerer (1767–1837) was a Danish missionary in

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. He is known as the first translator of the

Kural The ''Tirukkuṟaḷ'' (), or shortly the ''Kural'' (), is a classic Tamil language text on commoner's morality consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or Kural (poetic form), kurals, of seven words each. The text is divided into three books wit ...

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 The Tranquebar Mission (; ) was established in 1706 by two German missionaries from Halle namely, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plütschau. Ziegenbalg and Plütschau responded to the appeal of King Frederick IV of Denmark to establish a m ...

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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 Danish translators

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