Johann Philipp Fabricius

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[edit] Johann Philipp Fabricius

Born 22.1.1711 in Hessen/Germany, died 23.1.1791 in Trankebar East coast of India, Bible translator and missionary of the Tamil mission at Tranquebar. After he read the reports of the Danisch-Halle Mission he studied theology and was sent to Trankebar. He translated the Bible in Tamil, which was started by Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg. He also published a Tamil and English dictionary, which is still in print, after it was up-dated.

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Fabricius, Johann Philipp. J. P. Fabricius's Tamil and English dictionary. 4th ed., rev.and enl. Tranquebar: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Pub. House, 1972.

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