Jean-Philippe Baratier
Jean-Philippe Baratier (also Johann Philipp Baratier; 19 January 1721 in Schwabach near Nuremberg – 5 October 1740) was a German scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century, he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts.
Life
Baratier's early education was most carefully conducted by his father, François Baratier, a
His progress was so rapid that by the time he was five years of age he could speak French, Latin and Dutch with ease, and read Greek fluently. He then studied Hebrew, and in three years was able to translate the Hebrew Bible into Latin or French. He collected materials for a dictionary of rare and difficult Hebrew words, with critical and philological observations; and when he was about eleven years old translated from the Hebrew Tudela’s Itinerarium.[1]
At 14, he was admitted master of arts at
In 1741, Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey wrote a biography of him, published at Utrecht (NL)..
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baratier, Johann Philipp". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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