Wikipedia's article on Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg documents his and Heinrich Plutschau's landing at Tranquebar on 9 July 1706 under the sponsorship of Denmark's King Frederick IV and the Halle theologian August Hermann Francke, his Tamil language study, his 1707 seminary, and his Tamil New Testament translation printed from 1714.
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A general reference encyclopedia, tier 3, used here for the precise 9 July 1706 landing date and the mission's subsequent Tamil translation work, corroborating the Francke Foundations' own institutional account above. NotesUsed for the exact 9 July 1706 landing date, the 12 May 1707 first baptisms, and the Tamil New Testament translation printed from 1714.
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