who claimed to be needy Christians, though he was right that those who had lost all their property through becoming Christians could not be allowed to starve". Honors In Pulsnitz, the “Ziegenbalgplatz” was named after Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg bellows. Bibliography Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg: Merckwürdige Nachricht aus Ost-Indien ... Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main 1708. Tranquebar Bible, 1714 (first bible in Tamil). Excerpts from writings of Ziegenbalg: Werner Raupp (Hrsg.): Mission in Quellentexten. Geschichte der Deutschen Evangelischen Mission von der Reformation bis zur Weltmissionskonferenz Edinburgh 1910, Erlangen/Bad Liebenzell 1990, p. 138–163 (incl. introd. and lit.), esp. p. 141–154. See also Calendar of Saints (Lutheran) Missionaries Lutheranism Sources References (with detailed bibliography). Further reading Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg: The Father of the Modern Protestant Mission (2007) by Daniel Jeyaraj () Genealogy of the South-Indian gods: a manual of the mythology and religion of the people of southern India, including a description of popular Hinduism (by) Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, Wilhelm Germann, G. J. Metzger (1713) Propagation of the Gospel in the east: being an account of the success of the Danish missionaries, sent to the East-Indies, for the conversion of the heathen in Malabar. Extracted from the accounts of the said missionaries formerly publish'd, and brought down to the beginning of the year MDCCXIII. Wherein besides a narrative of the progress of the Christian religion in those parts, which the helps and impediments which hitherto have occurr'd; several hints are inserted concerning the religion of the Malabarians, their priests, poets, and other literati; and what may be expected from the printing-press (by) Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, Heinrich Plütscho (1714) New Testament (by) Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, Johann Ernst Gründler (1714) Urs App. The Birth of Orientalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 () contains a 55-page chapter (pp. 77–132) on Ziegenbalg and Mathurin Veyssière de La Croze and their role in the European discovery of Hinduism and Buddhism. The Tamil New Testament and Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg: a short study of some Tamil translations of the New Testament: the imprisonment of Ziegenbalg, 19.11.1708 - 26.3.1709 (by) Ulla Sandgren (Swedish Institute of Missionary Research, 1991) A German exploration of Indian society: Ziegenbalg's Malabarian Heathenism, an annotated English translation with an introduction and a glossary, edited by Daniel Jeyaraj, (Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies, 2006) A History of Christianity in India (1707–1858)'' (by) Stephen Neill Christians meeting Hindus: an analysis and theological critique of the Hindu-Christian encounter in India (by) Bob Robinson (OCMS, 2004) The Christian