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The Reverend Ippolito Desideri SJ | |
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Ippolito Desideri, SJ (21 December 1684 Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany – 14 April 1733 Rome, Papal States)[1] was an Italian Jesuit missionary and traveller and the most famous of the early European missionaries who founded Catholic Church in Tibet.[2] He was also the first documented Tibetologist and the first European to have successfully studied both Classical and Standard Tibetan.
- ^ Wessels 1924, p. 273.
- ^ Lopez & Jinpa 2017, p. 2.