Ferdinand Kittel
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Reverend Ferdinand Kittel (1832-1903) was a 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 the first ever Kannada-English dictionary of about 70,000 words in 1894 [1].
He also composed numerous Kannada poems.
Many educational institutions have been named after him. A statue at the end Mahatma Gandhi road in the city of Bangalore commemorates him.
Reverend Ferdinand Kittel has also written a book on Kannada grammar called "A Grammar of the Kannada Language: Comprising the Three Dialects of the language" [[1]]
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