10 Facts About Karl Graul

Karl Graul was a leader of Leipzig Lutheran mission and a Tamil scholar.

Karl Graul was born in a poor weaver family in Germany.

Karl Graul moved to India as the director of the Lutheran Leipzig Mission in 1849 and there he mastered Tamil.

Karl Graul advocated the supremacy of Lutheranism over other Christian denominations and found it hard to cooperate with Anglicans in India.

Karl Graul was born in Worlitz, in the Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau, into a poor weaver's family.

Karl Graul was appointed the director of the Lutheran Leipzig Mission in 1844.

Later Karl Graul wrote Bibilotheca Tamulica seu Opera Praecipua Tamuliensium.

Karl Graul being one of the foremost figures in missiology, insisted that other missionaries should go through academic training both in mission as well in theology.

Karl Graul insisted that the knowledge of locals with contextual approach towards indigenous churches.

Karl Graul believed in supremacy of Lutheranism over other Christian denominations.