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Feb 04, 1814 Stuttgart, Baden Württemberg, Germany Died on 25 Apr 1893 (aged 79)
German missionary, scholar, and linguist
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About Hermann Gundert
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- Hermann Gundert (Stuttgart, 4 February 1814 – 25 April 1893 in Calw, Germany) was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse.
- Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (1859), in which he developed and constricted the grammar spoken by the Keralites, nowadays; a Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed to work on Bible translations into Malayalam.
- He worked primarily at Thalassery on the Malabar coast, in Kerala, India.
- Gundert also contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy.
