Everything about Hermann Gundert totally explained
Rev. Dr. Hermann Gundert (
Stuttgart,
February 4,
1814 –
April 25,
1893 in
Calw,
Germany) was a
German missionary and scholar, who compiled a
Malayalam grammar book,
Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (
1868), the first
Malayalam-
English dictionary (
1872), and translated the
Bible into Malayalam. He worked primarily on the
Malabar coast, in
Kerala,
India.
Hermann Gundert obtained a doctoral degree in
philology from
Tübingen. In Kerala, he took a deep interest in the local culture and the Malayalam language, attempting a systematic grammar of the language. This was one of the prominent non-
Sanskrit-based approaches to Indic grammar. Gundert considered Malayalam to have diverged from Proto-Tamil-Malayalam, or Proto-Dravidian. Apart from the early inscriptions found on copper and stone, Gundert traced Malayalam to the Rāma Charitam, a poem predating the Sanskrit alphabet.
Gundert is held in high regard to this day among linguistic experts in Kerala for the high scholastic aptitude exhibited in his work. He published two Malayalam journals, of which
Rajya Samacharam is considered to be the first newspaper in Kerala.
Though Gundert came to Kerala as a missionary, he's remembered today mainly for his literary contributions. In
Thalassery (Tellicherry), people have honored him by a statue in the city.
He was the grandfather of
Hermann Hesse, German novelist and recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature. There is a bungalow in
Thalassery where he used to stay when he was there, where the
Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF) is now situated.
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