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Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (
17 September 1774 –
15 March 1849) was an
Italian Catholic cardinal and famed
linguist and
hyperpolyglot. Born and educated in
Bologna, he completed his
theological studies before he'd reached the minimum age for
ordination as a
priest; he was ordained in
1797. In the same year, he became professor of
Arabic at the
University of Bologna. He later lost this position for refusing to take the
oath of allegiance required by the
Cisalpine Republic, which governed Bologna at the time.
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
1808, but again rehabilitated on the restoration of
Pope Pius VII in
1814. Mezzofanti held this post until he left Bologna to go to
Rome in
1831, as a member of the
Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (
Congregatio de Propaganda Fide), the Catholic Church's governing body for missionary activities. In
1833, he succeeded
Angelo Mai as Custodian-in-Chief of the
Vatican Library, and in
1838 was made cardinal of the title of
St. Onofrio al Gianicolo and director of studies in the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.
Mezzofanti is well-known for being a
hyperpolyglot and it's believed that he spoke thirty-eight languages and fifty
dialects fluently, while also having proficiency in many other languages with a lesser fluency.
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