Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti information

Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti (17 September 1774 – 15 March 1849) was an Italian cardinal known for being a hyperpolyglot. Born in Bologna, he showed exceptional...

proficiency) or more—are sometimes classed as hyperpolyglots. Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, for example, was an Italian priest reputed to have spoken anywhere...

various forms of early Germanic preserved in runic inscriptions. Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774–1849), Italian cardinal. One of his contemporaries recorded...

March 14 – King Willem II of the Netherlands (b. 1792) March 15 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian Catholic cardinal, linguist (b. 1774) March 18 – Antonin...

1857) Patrick Syme, Scottish painter (d. 1845) September 19 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and hyperpolyglot (d. 1849) Coulson Wallop,...

1857) Patrick Syme, Scottish painter (d. 1845) September 19 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and hyperpolyglot (d. 1849) Coulson Wallop,...

among whom were August Neander, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti. He died in London on 25 February 1881, and was buried in Little...

SS. XII Apostoli (30 September 1850), died 20 February 1852 Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti, custos of the Vatican Library – cardinal priest of S. Onofrio...

States), he was briefly a pupil of the famed hyperpolyglot Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, then moved to Paris, where he met Antoine Destutt de Tracy and...

Bologna. There, he developed a friendship with the future cardinal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, which he maintained throughout his life. He then went to Rome...