Career
He died in 1962 at the age of 82. Channappa Uttangi began his Theological studies at the age of twenty at the Basel Seminary. Upon completing his studies Uttangi joined Basel Mission as an Evangelist in 1908.
Uttangi"s was awarded by the Kannada Sahitya Sammelana for his groundbreaking work on the Kannada poet Sarvajna.
Foreign 25 years Uttangi researched this 16th-century Kannada poet. The poems of Sarvajna were spread out among the villages.
To study these poems Uttangi developed a skill of reading and interpreting the ancient manuscripts preserved on palm leaves. Uttangi would go to the villages stay with the people and collect information on the poems of Sarvajna.
In all Uttangi collected 2000 poems and classified them in a systematic manner.
A statue of Channappa Uttangi was unveiled at his native village in Hadagali taluk by the former Chief Minister, North. Dharam Singh in July 2004.
