John Garrett (linguist): Difference between revisions

John Garrett was a Wesleyan Missionary, who served in India, in the Wesleyan Canarese Mission, at the Bangalore Petah. Garrett was a linguist and a scholar of several languages such as Canarese (Kannada), Sanskrit, Tamil, Persian, German and Latin. Garrett is credited with establishing a printing press, the Wesleyan Mission Press, at Bangalore Petah at around 1841. Garett is also credited with founding the Central High School in 1858, which is now the Central College. Garett also held many designated posts in the Department of Public Instruction, under the Mysore State. His most significant contribution to Kannada literature is said to be the very first translation of the Bhagawat Gita into Kannada in 1846.<ref name="Hindu">{{cite news |last1=Madhusudana |first1=K S |title=Reading a rare work: Rev. John Garrett’s The BHAGAVAT-GEETA of 1846 in Kannada is a rare multi-lingual version |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/reading-a-rare-work/article29723943.ece |access-date=24 August 2022 |agency=The Hindu |date=17 October 2019}}</ref><ref name="Findlay1924">{{cite book |last1=Findlay |first1=D D |last2=Holdsworth |first2=WW |title=The history of the Wesleyan Methodist missionary society, Volume V |date=1924 |publisher=The Epworth Press |location=London |access-date=24 August 2022}}</ref>