Heinrich August Jäschke

Heinrich August Jäschke (17 May 1817 in Herrnhut – 24 September 1883) was a German Tibetologist missionary and Bible translator.

He attended Moravian schools, where he stood out for his remarkable gift for learning new languages.

Jäschke's gift for language made him an ideal choice for the Moravian mission in Western Tibet.

So in 1856 Jäschke joined two missionaries, Wilhelm Heyde and Eduard Pagel, in what is today northern India.

[4] In 1870, botanist Federico Kurtz named a genus of flowering plants from Central Asia (belonging to the family Gentianaceae), as Jaeschkea in his honour.