Giovanni Baptista Ferrari

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Giovanni Baptista Ferrari
Reverend; Giovanni Baptista Ferrari
Born	May 1, 1584; Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died	1 February 1655 (aged 70); Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Nationality	Italian
Occupation(s)	Jesuit priest, orientalist, university teacher, botanist
Academic background
Alma mater	Roman College; Maronite College in Rome;
Influences	Petrus Metoscita; Cassiano dal Pozzo; Federico Cesi; Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc; Pietro Della Valle;
Academic work
Discipline	Syriacist, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist, Botanist
Institutions	Roman College; Maronite College in Rome;
Notable students	Isaac Sciadrensis
Influenced	Hermann Grube; Philip Miller;

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).

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