Raimundo Diosdado Caballero (June 19, 1740 – January 16, 1830 or April 28, 1829) was a
Catholic
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miscellaneous writer, chiefly ecclesiastical.
Born at
Palma in the island of
Majorca on June 19, 1740. He entered the
Society of Jesus
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on November 15, 1752, held the chair of
literature
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in the Jesuit College at
Madrid
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for several years, and was deported with the other Jesuits to
Italy
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when the Society was suppressed in the
Spanish
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dominions. In his new home Father Caballero developed a varied literary activity. The following are the most important of his works:
*''De Primá typographiae hispanicae aetate specimen'' (
Rome
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, 1793);
*''Commentariola critica, primum de discipliná arcani, secundum de linguá evangelicá'' (Rome, 1798). The author corrects in this work what he considers to be the mistakes of
Emmanuel Schelstrate
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and
Hardouin, and offers a proof that the native tongue of
Christ
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and the
Apostles was
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, not
Greek
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, as
Dominicus Diodati (d. 1801) had maintained in his ''De Christo loquente exercitatio'' (
Naples
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, 1767).
*''Bibliothecae Scriptorum Societatis Jesu supplementa. Supplementum primum'' (Rome, 1814),
**''Supplementum primum'' (Rome, 1814),
**''Supplementum alterum'' (Rome, 1816).
Father Caballero shows his
scriptural
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knowledge in his ''Tetraglotton D. Marei Evangelium, et Marcologia critica''; and ''El Evangelio de S. Marcos escrito en latin, griego y hebreo, con los tres alfabetos''.
Not to mention several historical works, we may add here his writings on American subjects: ''Observaciones americanas, y supplemento critico á la historia de México''; ''Medios para estrechar más la union entre espanoles americanos y europeos''; and ''Consideraciones americanas''.
The exact date of his death is uncertain, but it is believed he died at Rome on either January 16, 1830 or April 28, 1829.
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Spanish male writers
18th-century Spanish Jesuits
1740 births
1829 deaths
People from Mallorca
19th-century Spanish Jesuits