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| | Johann Ernst Hanxleden - car-gif-spacer-used.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In addition to his mother tongue German, and his mastery of Malayalam and Sanskrit, he also had a good command over Latin, Syriac, Portuguese, and Tamil. |
 | | His home, and the church he built (St. Francis Xavier forane church), are preserved as historical monuments in Velur. |
 | | Paulinus of St. Bartholomew [Johann Philipp Wesdin, known as Paulinus Paathiri (1748-1806)] of the Carmelite order, who had lived in Kerala from 1776 to 1789, brought some of Hanxleden's works, such as his Sanskrit grammar, to Europe, and also wrote about Hanxleden and his writings extensively in his memoirs. |
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