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Ernest Trumpp (13 March 1828 - 1885) was a German philologist and missionary to Sindh Province, Punjab Province, and Peshawar—all part of then-British India before the independence of Pakistan in 1947. 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'', and translated most of the Guru Granth Sahib, sacred scriptures of the Sikhs, into English language.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Google books authored by Ernest Trump )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Ernest Trumpp books )〕 ==Biography== Trumpp was born on 13 March 1828 at Ilsfeld in Wurtemberg Province(''now'' Baden-Württemberg), Germany. He migrated to London due to political upheaval in his country, and he was employed as an assistant librarian at the East India House (later known as India Office), headquarters of British East India Company that governed British India until British government took control of the Company's possessions in 1858. Around 1854, he arrived India as a missionary sponsored by the Ecclesiastical Mission Society to study Languages of India and prepare their grammars and glossaries for use by Christian missionaries. As part of missionary duties, he was initially stationed at Karachi mission station, where he learnt Sindhi language. Later, he was stationed at Peshawar, where he studied Pashto language. He went back to Germany in 1860, however, was summoned by India office to work with Sikh scriptures. He returned to Lahore, part of then-India, to translate the sacred books of Sikhs into English language. He returned to Württemberg in 1871, and from 1874 worked as a professor of Oriental languages in Munich. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernest Trumpp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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