AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristofano (Ioannes Christophorus Amadutius). Savignano di Romagna near Rimini 18.8.1740 — Rome 21.1.1792. Italian Classical and Oriental Scholar. Educated at the Episcopal Seminary in Rimini. Joined the Minorite order. In 1762 he came to Rome, and began the study of Oriental languages. From 1769 Professor of Greek at Archiginnasio della Sapienza, Rome, and from January 1770 Director of the printing press of the Propaganda in Rome. He edited and wrote introductions to several volumes of Indian and other Asian “Alphabets”. Until 1771 he also taught Greek at the Collegio Urbano of Propaganda.
Publications: Edited: Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu indostanum universitatis Kasi. 20 (Introd.) + 152 p. Rome 1771; Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum seu samscrudonicum. 28 (Introd.) + 100 p. Rome 1772; Alphabetum Tangutanum sive Tibetanum. 16 (Introd.) + 138 p. Rome 1773; Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae. 45 (Introd.) + 51 p. Rome 1776, 2nd ed. 1787.
– Edited: Alphabetum Veterum Etruscorum. 38 p. (Introd. 28 p.). Rome 1771, 2nd ed. 1775; Alphabetum Hebraicum addito Samaritano et Rabbinico. Rome 1771; Alphabetum Graecum. R. 1771; Alphabetum Persicum. 24 p. (Introd. 12 p.). Rome 1783; Alphabetum Armenum. 32 p. (Introd. 10 p.). Rome 1784; Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum. Rome 1789.
– Other works (classical philology, philosophy, etc.) listed in the D.B.I.
Sources: A. Fabi, D.B.I. 2, 1960, 612-615; Wikipedia with portrait (more details and further references in Italian version).
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