PAOLINO di SAN BARTOLOMEO. - In the world Philip Weszdin, Discalced Carmelite, missionary and orientalist, b. 25 April 1748 at Hof an der Leitha (Lower Austria), d. at Rome 7 February 1806. In 1776-80 he worked in the Malabar mission as a missionary, then as rector of the seminary for the native clergy, then as vicar general of the bishop and apostolic visitor, and he acquired such a knowledge of the languages, customs and religious opinions of those peoples that through his works on these subjects, especially through his grammar of the Sanskrit language (the first published by a European), he won fame as a true pioneer in making India known to Europe. Recalled to Rome (1790) to attend to the printing of Malabar books, he was professor of oriental languages in the Seminary of the missions (1790), prefect of the Urban College of Propaganda Fide, then rector of the aforementioned Seminary (1803).

His principal works are: Systema Brahmanicum liturgicum mythologicum civile (ibid. 1791); Alphabeta Indica (ibid. 1791); Centum adagia Malabarica cum textu originali et versione latina (ibid. 1791); Examen historico-criticum codicum Indiorum Bibliothecae S. Congr. de Prop. Fide (ibid. 1792); Musei Borgiani Velitris codicei manuscripti Avenes, Peguani, Siamici, Malabarici... (ibid. 1793); Mumiographia Musei Obizioni (ibid. 1799); Monumenti indici del Museo Naniano illustrati (ibid. 1799); Vydcarana, seu locupletissima Samscridamicae linguae institutio (ibid. 1804); Vitae synopsis Stephani Borgiae, S. R. E. cardinalis... (ibid. 1805).

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BIBL.: G. Barone, Vita, precursori e opere di p. Paolino, Naples 1888; E. Terza, La vita del p. Paolino, Venice 1888; L. Wettl, Der österreichische Karmelit Paulinus a S. Bartolomeo, Vienna 1936; Ambrogio da S. Teresa, Bio-Bibliogr. missionaria O. C. D., Rome 1941, no. 665 ff.; id., Nomenclator missionariorum C. D., ibid. 1944, pp. 285-91.

Ambrogio di Santa Teresa

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