About August Friedrich Caemmerer
Lived 1767 – 1837 (aged 69–70). August Friedrich Caemmerer was a German translator.
August Friedrich Caemmerer (1767–1837) was a Danish missionary in South India. He is known as the first translator of the Kural into German.
Biography August Friedrich Caemmerer arrived in Tranquebar 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.
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German translator
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August Friedrich Caemmerer was born in 1767.
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August Friedrich Caemmerer died in 1837.
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August Friedrich Caemmerer was a translator.
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August Friedrich Caemmerer was German.
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