Ferdinand Kittel
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. He also composed numerous Kannada poems.
Ferdinand Kittel | |
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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 |
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