Johann Gottlieb Adler
ARK https://n2t.net/ark:54728/rtd-p-000255
- Roles
- type founder
- Nationality
- German and Indian
- Scripts
- Tamil
Crafted Tamil type for the Tranquebar mission press after arriving from Halle in 1713, and set up a type foundry and a paper mill at Porayur, near Tranquebar.
See also
Sources
- Tranquebar Mission and Protestant Missionary Beginnings in India (Thomson Robi) - IJSR (archived copy)
- Faces of Lutheran Missions in India: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg - Concordia Historical Institute (archived copy)
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