# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-kittel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:44:20.437Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-kittel"
name: "Ferdinand Kittel"
slug: "ferdinand-kittel"
description: "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."
tagline: "Missionary (1832-1903)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kittel%2C_Ferdinand_(1832-1903).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1832-04-07"
deathDate: "1903-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.481606666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel"
    title: "Ferdinand Kittel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "فرديناند كيتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "فرديناند كيتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Киттель, Фердинанд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel"
    title: "Ferdinand Kittel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "ರೆವರೆಂಡ್ ಎಫ್ ಕಿಟ್ಟೆಲ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77310"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump