The German Lutheran Christian Friedrich Schwartz gave nearly fifty years, from 1750, to the missions at Tranquebar, Tiruchirapalli and Tanjore. So plainly honest that Hindu and Muslim rulers trusted him as a go-between, he was even asked to tutor the young Raja Serfoji of Tanjore.
His page in Missions in India →Hugh Pearson, Memoirs of … Christian Frederick Swartz (1834) — public domain.
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