Hermann Gundert
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 laureate Hermann 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 present day
Kerala, India. Gundert also contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy.
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