Martin Kämpchen is of German origin and has studied in the USA, Paris and has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Vienna and in Comparative Religion from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal. He is based in Santiniketan since 1980, and has translated the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore from Bengali to German (six volumes). He has authored the only German Tagore biography and written several books on Tagore’s relationship with Germany in English and German.