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{{Reflist}}'''Paul Olaf Bodding''' (born [[Gjøvik]], [[Norway]] on 2 November 1865, died [[Odense]], [[Denmark]] on 25 September 1938) was a Norwegian [[missionary]], [[linguistics|linguist]] and [[folklorist]]. He served in India for 44 years (1889–1933), and operated mainly from the town [[Dumka]] in the Santhal Parganas-district. Bodding created the first alphabet and wrote the first grammar for the [[Santali language|Santali]]-speaking native people in eastern India. In 1914 he also completed the translation of [[the Bible]] into the Santali language. |
{{Reflist}}'''Paul Olaf Bodding''' (born [[Gjøvik]], [[Norway]] on 2 November 1865, died [[Odense]], [[Denmark]] on 25 September 1938) was a Norwegian [[missionary]], [[linguistics|linguist]] and [[folklorist]]. He served in India for 44 years (1889–1933), and operated mainly from the town [[Dumka]] in the Santhal Parganas-district. Bodding created the first alphabet and wrote the first grammar for the [[Santali language|Santali]]-speaking native people in eastern India. In 1914 he also completed the translation of [[the Bible]] into the Santali language. |
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Paul Olaf Bodding (born Gjøvik, Norway on 2 November 1865, died Odense, Denmark on 25 September 1938) was a Norwegian missionary, linguist and folklorist. He served in India for 44 years (1889–1933), and operated mainly from the town Dumka in the Santhal Parganas-district. Bodding created the first alphabet and wrote the first grammar for the Santali-speaking native people in eastern India. In 1914 he also completed the translation of the Bible into the Santali language.
Paul Olaf Bodding had studied theology at the university of Oslo. He was a celebrated scientist, and he is still well known among the santals living in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam as well as in Bangladesh and the Scandinavian countries.
Bodding was the son of a bookseller, and he first met the founder of The Indian Home Mission to the Santals (later developed to the NELC), Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, in his father's bookshop in Gjøvik. Skrefsrud was born just outside the neighbouring town Lillehammer, in Oppland, Norway.
Bodding was also involuntarily involved in a personal scandal, as his second wife, a Danish missionary-daughter, ran away with an Indian Muslim (according to Olav Hodne - in his book Oppreisning (2006)).
A monument to Bodding stands in front of Gjøvik church in Norway.
Works
- Materials for a Santali Grammar I, Dumka 1922
- A Chapter of Santal Folklore, Oslo 1924
- Santal Folk Tales (3 volumes), 1925–29
- Studies in Santal Medicine and Connected Folklore (3 volumes), 1925–40
- A Santal Dictionary (5 volumes), 1933–36
- Santal Riddles and Witchcraft among the Santals, 1940
Cecil Henry Bompas published Folklore of the Santal Parganas. London: D. Nutt, 1909, compiled from stories collected by P. O. Bodding.
Some sources
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Paul Olaf Bodding". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. col. 643. ISBN 3-88309-013-1.
- The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia at www.lcms.org
- Olav Hodne Oppreisning, a biography on Bodding, published by Luther forlag, Oslo, November 2006 (in Norwegian)
- Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas at Project Gutenberg.
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