# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-gundert
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:29.790Z

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name: "Hermann Gundert"
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description: "Hermann Gundert was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the maternal grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Gundert is chiefly known for his contributions as an Indologist, and compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (1859), in which he developed and constricted the grammar spoken by the Malayalis, nowadays; a Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed to work on Bible translations into Malayalam. He worked primarily at Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, in present day Kerala, India. Gundert also contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy. Gundert gave the famous epithet \"God's own country\" to Kerala seeing the beauty of the land while he traveled from Kunnamkulam to Mangalore on a boat."
tagline: "German missionary, scholar, and linguist (1814–1893) who wrote the first Malayalam-English dictionary."
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birthDate: "1814-02-04"
deathDate: "1893-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump