CASARTELLI, Louis Charles. Manchester 14.11.1852 — Salford near Manchester 18.1.1925. Right Rev. British (of Italian origin) Iranian Scholar and Catholic Bishop. Son of an Italian exile from Como, North Italy, Joseph Louis Casartelli, working as optician in Manchester, and Jane Henrietta Ronchetti, educated at Salford Catholic Grammar School. Studies at Ushaw College (Durham, B.A.) and universities of Louvain (de Harlez) and London. M.A. 1873 London, in 1876 ordained as a Catholic priest, Dr. or. litt. 1884 Louvain, Hon. D.D. 1909 Louvain. In 1877-91 Master at St.Bede’s College (his old school with a new name) in Manchester, 1891-1903 Rector of the same. In 1900-03 Professor of Zend and Pehlevi at Louvain, also taught Sanskrit. In 1903-20 Lecturer in Iranian languages at University of Manchester. From 1903 Bishop of Salford. He was a specialist of the Pahlavi literature and Iranian religion.
Publications: Diss. La philosophie religieuse du Mazdéisme sous les Sassanides. 8+192 p. P. 1884 (English transl. Bombay 1889); a number of articles in Le Muséon, JRAS, Babylonian and Oriental Record, ERE, etc.
– “Un traité pehlevi sur la médecine”, Le Muséon 5, 1886, 296-316, 531-558 (Denkart 4, 157 translated & analysed), then also as Traité de médecine Mazdéenne. 51 p. Louvain 1886.
– “Two Discourses of Chosröes the Immortal-Souled”, Babylonian and Oriental Record 1:7, 1887, 97-101 & 2:2, 1888, 33-66; “Sâlûtar: La pierre-de-touche du cheval, traduit du Persan”, Le Muséon 9, 1890, 96-104, 185-191, 402-410. “Syêna–Simurgh–Roc. Un chapitre d’évolution mythologique et philologique”, Compte rendu du Congrès scientifique intern. des Catholiques P. 1891, 78-85.
– Leaves from my Eastern Garden. 41 p. 1908 (translations from Vedic Sanskrit and Avesta).
– “Hindu Mythology and Literature as Recorded by Portuguese Missionaries of the Early 17th Century”, Anthropos 1, 1906, 864-876 & 2, 1907, 128-132, 275-281 & 3, 1908, 771f., 1077-1080.
– Essai sur la diffusion du Manichéisme dans l’empire romain. n.p. 1907.
– “The Persian Dante,” in The Dastur Hoshang Mem. Vol. Bombay 1918, 259-273.
– Lectures on Commercial Geography. 4+117 p. Manchester & L. 1884; Sketches of History, chiefly Ecclesiastical. 7+381 p. L. 1906; Moods and Tenses. 1906 (verses); The Popes in the Divina Commedia of Dante. 68 p. L. 1921; etc.
Sources: Who Was Who 1916–28; E. Edwards, JRAS 1925, 380f.; *Bull. of the John Rylands Library 9, 1925, 8f.; *M.J. Broadley, L.C.C. A Bishop in Peace and War. 2006 (based on his Manchester 2002 diss.); A. Panaino, Encyclop. Iranica 5, 1990, 24f. (also listing all his Iranian publications, online 2014); Wikipedia with photo.
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