Gottfried Weigle

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Life

Born: 1814 or 1816

Died: 1855

Biography

Gottfried Weigle was a German missionary and linguist. After studying theology at Tübingen, he went to Mangalore in 1840, where he worked for the Basel Mission and studied the Dravidian languages, particularly as a translator between Kannada and German.

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