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Joan Josua Ketelaar of Elbing, author of the First Hindūstānī Grammar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

J. Ph. Vogel
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In his Linguistic Survey of India, Sir George Grierson has drawn attention to the first Hindūstānī grammar, and given someparticulars about its author, Joan Josua Ketelaar, who was a German in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In the presentpaper I wish to supplement the information regarding Ketelaar's career by means of some biographical data mostly drawn from the Company's records preserved in the “ Bijks Archief ” at The Hague.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 2-3 , January 1936 , pp. 817 - 822
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1936

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References

page 817 note 1 L.S.I., vol. ix, Calcutta, 1916, part i, pp. 6–8. Cf. also Proc. A.S.B., May, 1895.

page 817 note 2 I wish here to give expression to my gratitude for assistance kindly rendered by Dr. R. Bylsma, Keeper of the State Records, The Hague, Dr. F. W. Stapel, and Dr. A. J. Bernet Kempers. To Dr. Stapel I owe most of the information regarding Ketelaar's career in India.

page 818 note 1 An English translation of the journal of Ketelaar's Embassy was published inthe Journal of the Panjāb Historical Society, vol. X (1929). An edition of the original document is in preparation.

page 820 note 1 Sir George Grierson has quoted some particulars from the curious account of a German soldier, named Johann Gottlieb Worms, who belonged to the ambassador's bodyguard. It was published with some other writings of the same author at Dresden in 1737 under the title Ost-Indian- und Persianische Reisen by a German pastor, M. Crispinus Weisen. A second edition appeared at Leipzig in 1745.

page 820 note 2 The British Consul at Bandar Abbās has informed me that there existed “ a very old ruin in the shape of a monument situated on the border of the oldest part of thetown (once Gambroon), which was known as [ Goor-i-Ferangh ] (Europeans' grave), but this ruin, and others in close vicinity to it, were demolished about twenty-fiveyears ago, when it was decided to build new houses on the site.”

page 821 note 1 Mill's Miscellanea Orientalia forms part of his Dissertationes Selectae, published at Leyden in 1743.

page 821 note 2 Dvivedi Abhinandan Granth, Benares, 1933, pp. 194–203.