NOTTROTT, Carl Gustav Rudolf Eduard Alfred. Oppershausen, Thüringen 19.8.1837 — Steinhagen, Westfalen 20.1.1924. Rev. German Lutheran Missionary in India. Studies at Halle, then left to India. During a furlough Ph.D. 1887 Leipzig. Hon. D.D. 1907 Halle. WW I forced him back to Germany. Twice married, his first wife died 1876, the second 1896 was Louise Hahn, daughter of —> Ferdinand Hahn, children.
N.b. ancestry.com on his daughter, born 1880, names the mother as Emilie Leonore (Elizabeth) Hartmann (1853–1933). Gedenktafel in Gossner-mission.de says that back in Germany he lived in Steinhagen with his wife Elisabeth.
Publications: “Mundari (Kol) Lieder”, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 3, 1874, 94-??, 287-???, or rather 3, 1890-91, 381f. (the first reference by Grierson, the second confirmed in archive.org).
– Gosner Mission unter den Kols. Berlin 1874.
– Grammatik der Kolh-Sprache. 104 p. Gütersloh 1882 (accepted as diss.), English translation by Paul Wagner, Grammar of the Kol-Language. 175+35+8 p. Ranchi 1905.
– Ein Träger des Lichts: Nathanael Tuyu der erste Munda-Pastor; ein Lebensbild aus der Kols-Mission. 2nd ed. 62 p. Friedenau-Berlin 1911; another similar work; translated parts of the Bible.
Sources: Wikisource; stray notes in M. Girard, Among the Original Dwellers: Remembering Ferdinand Hahn. 2019.
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