Johann Ernst Hanxleden s.j., alias Arnos Padiri, scholar and poet

Vielle, Christophe
(2021) Transposition and Transformation, Controversy and Discovery: On the Christian Encounter with the Religions of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century India — ISBN: [9783900271473], p. 1-48, published

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Detailed philological and historical presentation of the figure of Johann Ernst Hanxleden (1681-1732), a German Jesuit missionary who became famous in Kerala, under the name of Arnos Padiri, as a Christian Malayalam poet, and who also showed a deep interest for the Hindu traditions of the local brahmins by composing a Sanskrit grammar and studying Sanskrit texts, providing us a quite unique example of combination of devotional Christianity and Pre-Indology in early 18th c. South-India.
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Vielle, C. (2021). Johann Ernst Hanxleden s.j., alias Arnos Padiri, scholar and poet. In K. Preisendanz & J. Buss (eds) (ed.), Transposition and Transformation, Controversy and Discovery: On the Christian Encounter with the Religions of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century India (p. p. 1-48). De Nobili Research Library. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/255563