Record ID:
36517371 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 81032098
Heading:
Birth:
  • 16801104
  • Castiglione delle Stiviere (Italy)
Death:
  • 17470204
  • Trichur (India)
Associated with:
  • Cochin (India)
Fields of activity:
  • Tamil language Tamil literature
Occupations:
  • Missionaries
Used for:
  • Peski, Kān̲sṭan̲ciyas, 1680-1747
  • Beschi, Costanzo Giuseppe, 1680-1747
  • Beschi, Constantine Joseph, 1680-1747
  • Beschius, Constantinus Josephus, 1680-1747
  • Vīramāmun̲ivar, 1680-1747
  • Beschi, Costantino Giuseppe, 1680-ca. 1746
Notes:
  • Sorrentino, A. L'altra perla dell'India, 1980: t.p. (Padre Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi) p. 7, etc. (Constantine Joseph Beschi, Jesuit missionary and Tamil scholar)
  • His Aintilakkaṇat ton̲n̲ūl viḷakkam, 1984: t.p. (Kān̲sṭan̲ciyas Peski)
  • Wikipedia 24 March 2020: (Constantine Joseph Beschi (8 November 1680 – 4 February 1747), also known under his Tamil name of Vīramāmunivar, was an Italian Jesuit priest, missionary in South India, and Tamil language littérateur. He was born in Castiglione delle Stiviere (Italy) and joined the Jesuits in 1698. He was sent to Marudai in south India, arriving in 1711. He adopted Indian dress and customs and learned Tamil to a high level. From 1740 he lived on the Coromandel coast, in Trichur.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constanzo_Beschi
Local system number:
  • 000001525294
  • abv02951813
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC OCoLC VJTL