CÄMMERER, August Friedrich (Augustus Frederick Cammerer). Wusterhausen, Brandenburg 22.6.1767 — Trankebar 22.10.1837. German Missionary in India. Son of Christian Gottlieb Cämmerer, a school director. After gymnasium in Halle studied theology from 1786 at Halle. After brief time as teacher ordained in Copenhagen in 1789. In India from 1791 until death (with a pause in 1821-23). Retired 1821, but returned in 1823. The last of the Halle missionaries in Trankebar. Hon. dr.phil. 1805. Three times married, 1792 Clara Augusta Koch (d. 1795), 1805 Dorothea Augusta Martini and later on Dorothea Sophie Martini (1787–1874), three sons and two daughters.
Publications: Kural des Tiruvalluwer, Gedichte und Denksprüche. 176 p. Nürnberg 1803 (incomplete and free translation of the first two books).
Sources: gaebler.info/india/daenisch-hallesche_mission; fas.francke-halle.de; the brief account in Wikipedia is questionable (he is called both Danish and Dutch, not German).
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