August Hermann Francke (Tibetologist)

August Hermann Francke (5 November 1870 in Gnadenfrei, Silesia – 16 February 1930 in Berlin) was a German Tibetologist.

Francke served as a Moravian Church missionary in Ladakh, then a part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, from 1896 until 1909.

He was subsequently appointed professor of Tibetan languages at Berlin University.

[5] After Yoseb Gergan produced the first draft of the Tibetan Bible in 1910, Francke corrected it and then sent it to David Macdonald, the British trade agent in Yatung.

Also involved was his Moravian colleague Heinrich Jäschke who produced A Tibetan-English dictionary.