Giuseppe Maria Bernini
(1709-1761)
Italian Capuchin missionary, physician and Orientalist
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Giuseppe Maria Bernini (English: Joseph Mary Bernini, Hindustani: ज्यूसेपे मारिया बेर्निनी جیوسپی ماریا بیرنینی ), who lived from 1709–1761, was an Italian Capuchin missionary, physician and Orientalist. His efforts led to the establishment of the northern Indian subcontinent's oldest Christian community—the Bettiah Christians. Bernini was the first European to author tracts in Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), as well as to translate Indian classics from Sanskrit into Italian.
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1709 2 September 1709
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1761 (aged 51)
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