CASARTELLI, LODOVICO CARLO. — Bishop and Orientalist, born in London on 14 November 1852, died in Manchester on 18 January 1925. He studied at the University of Louvain and was ordained a priest in 1876. Professor and rector at St. Bede’s College in Manchester, he became Bishop of Salford in November 1903.
A scholar of Oriental culture and religions, he taught Zen and Pahlavi at the University of Louvain and Iranian languages at that of Manchester. He contributed to the Catholic Encyclopedia and the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. Among his works, particular prominence should be given to La philosophie religieuse du mazdéisme sous les Sassanides (Louvain 1881) and his translation from Pahlavi of the Traité de médecine mazdéisme (there, 1886).