Ferdinand Kittel | |
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Born | Resterhafe, East Frisia, Germany | 7 April 1832
Died | 18 December 1903 Tübingen | (aged 71)
Occupation | Christian Priest, Kannada research writer. |
Subject | Kannada literature |
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 language and for producing a Kannada-English dictionary of about 70,000 words in 1894.[1] He also composed numerous Kannada poems.[2]