August Friedrich Caemmerer

August Friedrich Caemmerer (1767–1837) was a Danish missionary in South India.

[1] He is known as the first translator of the Kural into German.

August Friedrich Caemmerer arrived in Tranquebar on 14 May 1791 as part of the Danish-Halle Mission, better known as the Tranquebar Mission.

[2] He translated the first two book of the Kural into German and published it in 1803.

[3] He died in 1837 as the last missionary of the Tranquebar Mission.