Reverend Giovanni Baptista Ferrari | |
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| Born | May 1, 1584 |
| Died | 1 February 1655 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Jesuit priest, orientalist, university teacher, botanist |
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| Discipline | Syriacist, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist, Botanist |
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| Notable students | Isaac Sciadrensis |
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Giovanni Baptista (also Battista) Ferrari (1 May 1584 in Siena – 1 February 1655 in Siena), was an Italian Jesuit, 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).[2]