Ernest Trumpp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernest Trumpp

German missionary

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1828

Place of Birth: Ilsfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1885

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ernest Trumpp (13 March 1828 – 5 April 1885) was a German professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Munich and a philologist.
He first came to India in the 1850s and published scholarly work on the Sindhi and other western subcontinental languages.
Thereafter, he was sought and sent to and the Punjab region (British India) to study and translate the Sikh scriptures by Christian missionaries aiming to understand Sikhs and thereby aid their conversion.He authored the first Sindhi grammar entitled Sindhi Alphabet and Grammar.
He also published Grammar of Pashto, or language of the Afghans, compared with the Iranian and North Indian idioms.One of his notable and controversial works was based on an 8-year study of the Sikh scriptures, where he philologically analyzed and translated a significant portion of the Guru Granth Sahib into English in the 1870s.
Many in the Sikh community regarded his introductory remarks to his translation as "extremely offensive".
According to the Indologist Mark Juergensmeyer, setting aside Ernest Trumpp's nasty remarks, he was a German linguistic and his years of scholarship, translations, as well as field notes and discussions with Sikhs at the Golden Temple remain valuable reference works for contemporary scholars.