Paulinus of St. Bartholomew, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paulinus of St. Bartholomew

Austrian Carmelite missionary and Orientalist

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1748

Place of Birth: Hof am Leithaberge, Lower Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1806

Profession: historian, missionary, monk, linguist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Paulinus of St.
Bartholomew (b.
at Hof am Leithaberge in Lower Austria, 25 April 1748; d.
in Rome, 7 January 1806) was an Austrian Carmelite missionary and Orientalist of Croatian origin.
He is known by several names as Paulinus S.
Bartholomaeo, Paolino da San Bartolomeo, Paulinus Paathiri, Paulin de St Barthelemi, Paulinus A S.
Bartholomaeo, Johann Philipp Wesdin, or Johann Philipp Werdin.He is credited with being the author of the first Sanskrit grammar to be published in Europe, and for being one of the first Orientalists to remark upon the close relationship between Indian and European languages, followed by others such as William Jones and Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux.