Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi

Italian classical philologist

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1740

Place of Birth: Savignano sul Rubicone, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1792

Profession: classical scholar, philosopher, classical philologist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi (18 August 1740 – 21 January 1792) was a distinguished Italian philologist who flourished during the latter half of the eighteenth century. He was superintendent of the press connected with the Propaganda college at Rome, professor of Greek at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and was the means of giving the world several fragments of ancient authors.He also wrote the preface to Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum, a book on the grammar of the South Indian Malayalam language, published in 1772.