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Who translated the Bible into Telugu (1746 - 47) ?

Who translated the Bible into Telugu (1746 - 47) ? Correct Answer Benjamin Schultze

The correct answer is Benjamin Schultze.

Key Points

  • Benjamin Schultze was a Christian missionary in South India for the Danish-Halle Mission.
  • He established the first Christian mission in Madras.
  • In the early part of the 18th century, Rev. Benjamin Schulz was the first to translate parts of the Bible into the native Telugu language.
    • For printing, the manuscripts were shipped to Halle, Germany.
    • What happened to the manuscripts is unknown, but they were never printed.
  • According to the Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, he finished Ziegenbelg's Tamil translation of the Bible (first printed in 1728) and began work on a Telugu New Testament.
  • Later, in 1805, two missionaries from the London Missionary Society, George Cran and Augustus de Granges arrived in Vizagapatam with the purpose of teaching native children English and reproducing the Bible in the local language.
  • Lyman Jewett's version from the 1880s was the most popular Telugu translation.
  • The feast of St. Jerome, the first to translate the Bible from Hebrew to Latin, is commemorated on September 30 as International Translation Day around the world.

Additional Information

  • Archibald Campbell was the first superintendent (1840-1862) of the sanatorium town of Darjeeling in northeast India.
  • Robert Caldwell, a London Missionary Society missionary who came to India at the age of 24, studied the local language in order to disseminate the word of the Bible in a vernacular language, studies that lead him to write a text on the comparative grammar of the South Indian languages.
  • Charles Philip Brown was a British official of the East India Company who became an important scholarly figure in Telugu language literature.

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