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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti

1774 - 1849

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Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti (17 September 1774 – 15 March 1849) was an Italian cardinal known for being a hyperpolyglot. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti has received more than 170,013 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti is the 841st most popular religious figure (down from 744th in 2019), the 1,156th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,079th in 2019) and the 282nd most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti was a priest and scholar who was most famous for his ability to speak and translate many languages.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti ranks 841 out of 2,238Before him are Ebussuud Efendi, Gerard of Csanád, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Giuseppe Bertello, Abdullah ibn Salam, and Isidore the Laborer. After him are Pope Leo VIII, Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, Athanasius the Athonite, Saint Silvia, Diego de Landa, and Antipas of Pergamum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti ranks 8Before him are Auguste de Marmont, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Francis Beaufort, and Jean Marc Gaspard Itard. After him are Gaspare Spontini, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Charles Bell, William Henry, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, and Christian Leopold von Buch. Among people deceased in 1849, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti ranks 18Before him are Heonjong of Joseon, France Prešeren, Şehzade Abdullah, Juliette Récamier, Otto Nicolai, and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are William Miller, Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Lajos Batthyány, Anita Garibaldi, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, and Juliusz Słowacki.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti ranks 1,156 out of 4,668Before him are Giuseppe Bertello (1942), Ludovico Carracci (1555), Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), Marcus Claudius Marcellus (-42), Julia Drusilla (39), and Veronica Franco (1546). After him are Niccolò Jommelli (1714), Gioseffo Zarlino (1517), Franco Corelli (1921), Pope Leo VIII (900), Leonardo Vinci (1690), and Taddeo Gaddi (1290).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti ranks 282Before him are Giovanni Battista Re (1934), Saint Maurus (512), Romano Guardini (1885), Eugenia of Rome (180), Gerard of Csanád (980), and Giuseppe Bertello (1942). After him are Pope Leo VIII (900), Saint Silvia (515), Peter Chrysologus (380), Anastasius Bibliothecarius (815), Antipope Honorius II (1010), and Antipope Felix II (300).