Ziegenbalg, BARTHOLOMEW, missionary, was born 14th June 1683 at Pulsnitz in Lusatia, studied at Halle, and on the call of Frederick IV. of Denmark went to establish Christian missions in the then Danish colony of Tranquebar, where he arrived in 1706, dying there in February 1719. He published a Tamil grammar and a Bible in Tamil.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 798
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