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[[Image:Portrait of Paul Olaf Bodding (1865-1938).jpg|thumb|Paul Olaf Bodding]]<br />
[[File:Bodding ved Gjøvik kirke.jpg|thumb|250 px|Monument to Paul Olaf Bodding at Gjøvik Church]]<br />
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'''Paul Olaf Bodding''' (2 November 1865 – 25 September 1938) was a Norwegian [[missionary]], [[linguistics|linguist]] and [[folklorist]].<ref>{{cite web<br />
|url = https://snl.no/Paul_Olaf_Bodding|title= Paul Olaf Bodding|publisher= Store norske leksikon|access-date= February 1, 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Paul Olaf Bodding was born at [[Gjøvik]] in [[Oppland]], Norway. He was the son of Edward Olsen Bodding (1825–1905) and Betzy Emilie Wennevold (1838–1889). Bodding was the son of a bookseller, and he first met the founder of The Indian Home Mission to the Santals (later developed to the [[Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church|NELC]]), [[Lars Olsen Skrefsrud]], in his father's bookshop in Gjøvik. Skrefsrud was born just outside the neighbouring town [[Lillehammer]], in [[Oppland]]. Bodding studied theology at the University of Kristiania (now [[University of Oslo]]) and graduated in 1889.<ref>{{cite web|url =https://nbl.snl.no/Paul_Olaf_Bodding |title= Paul Olaf Bodding|publisher= Norsk biografisk leksikon|author= Torstein Jørgensen|access-date= February 1, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In 1890, he arrived in Santalistan (Santal Parganas) as a missionary priest. When Skrefsrud died in 1909, Bodding took over as the leader of the Norwegian missionary organization Santaline Mission (''Den norske Santalmisjon''). He served in India for 44 years (1889–1933), and operated mainly from the town [[Dumka]] in the Santhal Parganas-district. Bodding created the first alphabet and wrote the first grammar for the [[Santali language|Santali]]-speaking native people in eastern India. In 1914 he also completed the translation of [[the Bible]] into the Santali language.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://snl.no/Den_norske_Santalmisjon <br />
|title= Den norske Santalmisjon|publisher= Store norske leksikon|access-date= February 1, 2018}}</ref><br />
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He was also a celebrated scientist, and he is still well known among the [[santals]] living in the states of [[Jharkhand]], [[Bihar]] and [[Assam]] as well as in [[Bangladesh]] and the Scandinavian countries. After returning from India in 1934, Bodding settled with his Danish-born wife Christine Larsen (1883–1940) in [[Odense]], [[Denmark]], where he died during 1938. <ref>{{cite web|url = http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/98679<br />
|title= Linguist and ethnographer, Rev. Paul Olaf Bodding|publisher= University of Southern California|access-date= February 1, 2018}}</ref><br />
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Cecil Henry Bompas published [https://archive.org/details/folkloreofsantal00bomp ''Folklore of the Santal Parganas''] (London: D. Nutt, 1909) compiled from stories collected by P. O. Bodding. In 2006, [[Olav Hodne]] issued a biography in his book ''Oppreisning''. A monument to Bodding stands in front of Gjøvik church in Oppland.<br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Materials for a Santali Grammar I'', Dumka 1922<br />
* ''A Chapter of Santal Folklore'', Oslo 1924<br />
* ''Santal Folk Tales'' (3 volumes), 1925–29<br />
* ''Studies in Santal Medicine and Connected Folklore'' (3 volumes), 1925–40<br />
* ''A Santal Dictionary'' (5 volumes), 1933–36<br />
* ''Santal Riddles and Witchcraft among the Santals'', 1940<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Other sources==<br />
* {{BBKL|b/bodding_p_o|band=1|autor= Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz|spalte=643}}<br />
* [[Olav Hodne]] (2006) [https://www.tanum.no/_oppreisning-olav-hodne-9788253133317''Oppreisning, Misjonæren og vitenskapsmannen Paul Olav Bodding''] (Oslo:Luther forlag) {{ISBN|8253133316}} <br />
==External links==<br />
* {{Gutenberg|no=11938|name=Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas}}.<br />
* [http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=b&word=BODDING.PAULOLAF The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia<!-- bot-generated title -->] at www.lcms.org<br />
*[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/98677 Christine Bodding and Paul Olaf Bodding at Darjeeling, North India, ca. 1930]<br />
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