Gottfried Weigle (1816–1855) was a German missionary to

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

who translated the Bible into

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 ...

. He was based in

Dharwad Dharwad (), also known as Dharwar, is a city located in the northwestern part of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of the Dharwad district of Karnataka and forms a contiguous urban area with the city of Hubballi. It was merged ...

, under the Basel Mission in

Mangalore Mangaluru (), formerly called Mangalore ( ), is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bengaluru, the st ...

. Herrmann Moegling, a fellow student from Tübingen also worked on translation projects.

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 ...

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 German missionary linguists Christian medical missionaries Missionary linguists {{India-reli-bio-stub