Ferrari, Giovanni Battista, 1584-1655
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Name (Latin)
Ferrari, Giovanni Battista, 1584-1655
Other forms of name
Ferrarius, Joannes Baptista, 1584-1655
Ferrari, Jean-Baptiste, 1584-1655
Ferrari, Giovan Battista, 1584-1655
Date of birth
1584-05-01
Date of death
1655-02-01
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- His Nomenclator syriacus, 1622:t.p. (Io. Baptistae Ferrarii Senensis e Societate Iesu)
- NUC pre-56(Ferrari, Giovanni Battista, 1584-1655)
- Onomasticon(Ferrari, G. B., 1584-1655; from Sienna)
- BLCFerrarius (Joannes Baptista) Jesuit, of Sienna)
- Backer-Sommergove(Ferrari, Jean-Baptiste; b. 1584, Sienna; d. 2-1-1655, same city; occupied the chair in Hebrew languages at the College Romain)
- Flora, overo, Cultura di fiori, 2001:t.p. (Giovan Battista Ferrari)
Wikipedia description:
Giovanni Baptista (also Battista) Ferrari (1 May 1584 – 1 February 1655) was an Italian Jesuit priest, orientalist, university teacher and botanist. Linguistically highly gifted and an able scientist, at 21 years of age Ferrari knew a good deal of Hebrew and spoke and wrote excellent Greek and Latin. He became a professor of Hebrew and Rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome and in 1622 edited a Syriac-Latin dictionary (Nomenclator Syriacus).
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