Celestino Cavedoni

Reverend Celestino Cavedoni
Venanzio Celestino Cavedoni
Giulio Muratori, Portrait of Celestino Cavedoni. Modena, Museo Civico
Born	(1795-05-18)May 18, 1795 Castelvetro di Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Died	26 November 1865(1865-11-26) (aged 70) Modena, Kingdom of Italy
Occupations	Catholic priest, archeologist, and numismatist
Parent(s)	Giorgio Giuseppe Alaria Cavedoni and Cristina Cavedoni (née Franchini)
Awards	Prix de Numismatique Allier de Hauteroche (1851)Legion of Honour
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Bologna
Academic advisor	Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
Influences	Bartolomeo Borghesi Stefano Antonio Morcelli
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology, Numismatics, Epigraphy, Ancient Near Eastern languages, Romance studies
Sub-discipline	Classical archaeology, Biblical archaeology
Institutions	Biblioteca Estense University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Celestino Cavedoni (18 May 1795 at Levizzano Rangone, near Modena – 26 November 1865 in Modena) was an Italian Catholic priest, archeologist, and numismatist.

Biography

Celestino Cavedoni was born at Levizzano-Rangone, near Modena, on 18 May 1795. He pursued his theological studies in the diocesan seminary, and from 1816 to 1821 distinguished himself in the study of archeologist and the Greek and Hebrew languages at the University of Bologna. He was then appointed custodian of the Numismatical Museum of Modena, and accepted a position in the City Library, of which he became librarian in 1847. From 1830 to 1863 he held the chair of hermeneutics at the University of Modena.^[1]

Works

Cavedoni was a corresponding member of the commission created by Napoleon III to edit the works of Count Bartolomeo Borghesi, to which collection he contributed numerous scientific notes.

Cavedoni's numismatic works include:

• Saggio di osservazioni sulle medaglie di famiglie romane (1829)
• Carellii nummorum Italiæ Veteris tabulæ (Leipzig, 1850)
• Numismatica Biblica (Modena, 1850; German tr. by Werlhof, Hanover, 1855–56)

Cavedoni contributed numerous historical and archæological papers to the Annali and the Bullettino of the Archæological Institute of Rome and to other Italian publications. In religious polemics he wrote a critique of Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus, Confutazione dei principali errori di Ernesto Renan nella sua Vie de Jésus (Modena, 1863), which passed through four editions in several months.^[1]

References

1. Weber, N.A. (1913). "Celestino Cavedoni" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Weber, N.A. (1913). "Celestino Cavedoni". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Cites as sources:
  • BERTAUX, in La Grande Encyclopédie, IX, 967;
  • HURTER, Nomenclator (Innsbruck 1895), III, 1024–25.

External links

• Media related to Celestino Cavedoni at Wikimedia Commons
• Parente, Fausto (1979). "CAVEDONI, Venanzio Celestino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 23: Cavallucci–Cerretesi. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-88-12-00032-6.
• Witte, Jean de (1867). Notice sur Celestino Cavedoni (in French). Paris: E. Thunot. Retrieved 24 January 2025.