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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = August Friedrich Caemmerer<br />
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| birth_date = 1767<br />
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| death_date = 1837<br />
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| nationality = [[Germany|Dutch]]<br />
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| occupation = Missionary<br />
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'''August Friedrich Caemmerer''' (1767–1837) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] missionary in [[South India]].<ref>{{cite book<br />
| last = Ebeling <br />
| first = Sascha <br />
| title = Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India<br />
| publisher = SUNY Press<br />
| date = 2010<br />
| location = Albany, New York<br />
| pages = 24<br />
| language = en<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_O1X_y_X-98C&q=August+Friedrich+Caemmerer&pg=PA24<br />
| isbn = 978-1-4384-3199-4<br />
}}</ref> He is known as the first translator of the [[Tirukkural|Kural]] into [[German language|German]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
August Friedrich Caemmerer arrived in [[Tranquebar]] on 14 May 1791 as part of the Danish-Halle Mission, better known as the Tranquebar Mission.<ref name="Frykenberg_Low">{{cite book<br />
| last = Robert Eric Frykenberg and Alaine M. Low (Eds.)<br />
| title = Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication Since 1500<br />
| publisher = Psychology Press/Routledge<br />
| date = 2003<br />
| location = New York <br />
| pages = 70<br />
| language = en<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3CfIl2v8PYC&q=August+Friedrich+Caemmerer&pg=PA70<br />
| isbn = 0-7007-1600-9<br />
}}</ref> He translated the first two book of the Kural into German and published it in 1803.<ref>{{cite book<br />
| last = Sanjeevi <br />
| first = N. <br />
| title = ''Bibliography on Tirukkural''. ''In'' First All India Tirukkural Seminar Papers<br />
| publisher = University of Madras<br />
| date = 1973<br />
| location = Chennai<br />
| pages = 146<br />
}}</ref> He died in 1837 as the last missionary of the Tranquebar Mission.<ref name="Frykenberg_Low"/><br />
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==See also==<br />
{{Portal|India|Tamils|Literature|Poetry}}<br />
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* [[List of translators]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Tamil–German translators]]<br />
[[Category:1767 births]]<br />
[[Category:1837 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Translators of the Tirukkural into German]]<br />
[[Category:Tirukkural translators]]<br />
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