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MEZZOFANTI, GIUSEPPE CASPAR (1774-1849)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 351 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MEZZOFANTI, GIUSEPPE CASPAR (1774-1849) , Italian
cardinal
  and linguist, was born on the 17th of September 1774, at Bologna, and educated there. He was ordained priest in 1797, and in the same year became professor of Arabic in the university, but shortly afterwards was deprived for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the Cisalpine Republic. In 1803 he was appointed assistant librarian of the institute of Bologna, and soon afterwards was reinstated as professor of oriental languages and of Greek. The chair was suppressed by the viceroy in 18o8, but again rehabilitated on the restoration of
Pius
  VII. in 1814, and continued to be held by Mezzofanti until his removal from Bologna to Rome in 1831, as a member of the
congregation
  de propaganda fide. In 1833 he succeeded Angelo Mai as
chief
  keeper of the Vatican library, and in 1838 was made
cardinal
  and director of studies in the
Congregation
 . He died at Rome on the 15th of
March
  1849. His
peculiar
  talent, comparable in many respects to that of the so-called " calculating boys," was not combined with any exceptional measure of intellectual power, and produced nothing of permanent value. It seems certain, however, that he spoke with considerable fluency, and in some cases even with attention to dialectic peculiarities, some fifty or sixty languages of the most widely separated families, besides having a less perfect acquaintance with many others.
See Russell,
Life
  of the Cardinal Mezzofanti (London, 1857); A. Bellesheim, Giuseppe Cardinal Mezzof
anti
  (Wurzburg, 1880).


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