Ferdinand Kittel | |
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.jpg) Ferdinand Kittel (1854) | |
| Born | 7 April 1832 Resterhafe, East Frisia, Germany |
| Died | 18 December 1903 (aged 71) Tübingen |
| 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]
- ^ Manjulakshi, L.; Shripad Bhat (9 September 2005). "Kannada Dialect Dictionaries and Dictionaries in Subregional Languages of Karnataka". Language in India. 5. Retrieved 27 September 2007.
- ^ Journal of the Karnatak University: Humanities: Volume 19 Karnatak University - 1975 "He was also involved in the work of the revision of the Kannada Bible. But his magnum opus was the school dictionary English- Kannada Shala Nighantu, which saw the light of the day in 1876. Though William Reeve (missionary) compiled and published ..."