Brilliant news!!
Congratulations to the Malayalam Wikimedia community for their excellent
efforts.
Best,
Vishnu
On 18 September 2013 09:43, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you would have already heard about the recent partnership
between Malayalam Wikipedians & German University of Tubingen to digitize
the works of Herman Gundert.
Dr. Hermann Gundert was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as
well as the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann
Hesse. Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha
Vyakaranam (1859), the Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed
to work on Bible translations into Malayalam. He worked primarily at
Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, in Kerala, India. Gundert also
contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert
The corpus of nearly 80 manuscripts, 150 printed works and some palm leaf
manuscripts of the German scholar available with the university runs into
some 42,000 pages.
A detailed history of this effort can be read here
http://shijualex.in/tubingen-university-gundert-collection/ ( Blog by
Shiju Alex in Malayalam)
Project Page in Malayalam WikiSource :
https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9…
The project named “Gundert legacy – a digitization project of the
University of Tuebingen” will be started soon.
Some News Coverage :
The Hindu :
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/german-university-gifts-malayalam…
Times of India :
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS1JLTy8yMDEzLzA5Lz…
New Indian Express :
http://newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/German-University-to-digitise-Mala…
Kudos to Shiju Alex and the Malayalam Wikipedian/WikiSource Community who
are part of this effort.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
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