# Ferdinand Kittel

> Ferdinand Kittel 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.

*German missionary and Kannada lexicographer who compiled the landmark Kannada-English Dictionary (1832-1903)*

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## Identity
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1832-04-07
- **Died:** 1903-12-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 44.1 / 100
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- **Profile completeness:** 50.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Ferdinand Kittel](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel)
- [فرديناند كيتل](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84)
- [فرديناند كيتل](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84)
- [Киттель, Фердинанд](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4)
- [Ferdinand Kittel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel)
- [ರೆವರೆಂಡ್ ಎಫ್ ಕಿಟ್ಟೆಲ್](https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%8E%E0%B2%AB%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77310)

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