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    Hermann Gundert

    German missionary, scholar, and linguist

    Dr.

    Hermann Gundert

    Born(1814-02-04)4 February 1814

    Stuttgart, Württemberg

    Died25 April 1893(1893-04-25) (aged 79)

    Calw, Württemberg, German Empire

    MonumentsGundert Statue, Tellichery
    OrganizationBasel Mission
    Known forProselytizing Christianity, Contributions to Malayalam language
    Parents
    • Ludwig Gundert (father)
    • Christiana Enslin (mother)
    RelativesHermann Hesse (grandson)

    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 laureateHermann 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 wo