Rev. Dr. 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), a Malayalam
-English dictionary (1872), and contributed to work on Bible translations into Malayalam
. He worked primarily at Tellicherry
on the Malabar coast
, in Kerala
, India. Gundert also contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy.
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