Ferdinand Kittel
Missionary
Died when: 71 years 255 days (860 months)Star Sign: Aries
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Reverend 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.
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