[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: German University of Tubingen partners with Malayalam Wikimedians to digitize the works of Herman Gundert.

[Sophie Osterberg]

How lovely to hear about this! I myself just finished reading Siddhartha by
Hermann Hesse.

Will anything be written on Wikipedia as a part of this effort as well?
Could students/researchers/PhD students at the German University of
Tubingenalso use this material to contribute to
Wikipedia as a part of research/ a university course?

*Be Bold!
Sophie Österberg
sosterberg at wikimedia.org*


*Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a
gift of free knowledge to humanity. *


2013/9/18 CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>         Some of you would have already heard about the recent partnership
> between Malayalam Wikimedians & 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%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A5%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B2:%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B2_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B6%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%96%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82
>
> 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-the-legacy-of-herman-gundert/article5125550.ece
> Times of India :
>
> http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS1JLTy8yMDEzLzA5LzEzI0FyMDAyMDI%3D
> New Indian Express :
>
> http://newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/German-University-to-digitise-Malayalam-books/2013/09/11/article1778484.ece
>
> Kudos to Shiju Alex and the Malayalam Wikipedian/WikiSource Community who
> are part of this effort.
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
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