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He traveled extensively in Italy and in Asia Minor; but Holland and Prance likewise attracted him, and he spent much of his time in Paris. In Dresden he became an intimate friend and admirer of the noted pastor Reinhard, by whom he was converted to Protestantism in 1805. As first lieutenant of the Vienna militia, Bartholdy took an active part in the campaign of 1809 against Napoleon, distinguishing himself especially in the battle of Ebersberg, where he was severely wounded. In 1813, while attached to the bureau of Prince von Hardenberg, he accompanied the allied armies to Paris, and went thence to London. On the latter journey he met Cardinal Consalvi, with whom he formed a lasting friendship, and whose life he afterward described in his book, " Ziige aus dem Leben des Cardinals Hercules Consalvi," Stuttgart, 1824. In 1815 Bartholdy received the appointment of Prussian consul-general to Italy and established himself in Rome. "While he strongly opposed the policy of the eminent historian Niebuhr, then Prussian ambassador at the papal court— a policy which to him seemed weak and unnecessarily lenient toward the Holy See he gave his firm support to Cardinal Consalvi and the Romanists at the Vienna Congress. After the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818, he was appointed Prussian business representative, with the title of privy councilor of legation, at the court of Tuscany. In 1825 he was pensioned by the Prussian government. Bartholdy is the author of the following works, in addition to those mentioned above " Der Krieg der Tyroler Landleute im Jahre 1809" (1814), and an unfinished work (in manuscript) on ancient glass and 1807.

Bartenora Bartolocci

schichten," ii. 2, 54-108). In Coptic Gnostic literature he is often mentioned (see Carl Schmidt, " Gnostische Schriften in Koptischer Sprache," 1892, p. 451).

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Hastings, Diet, of the Bihle,

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K.

BARTHOLOMEW RAYMTJNTJO.

SeeRiMos,

Moses.

BARTOLOCCI, GITTLIO



Italian

student of

Jewish literature; born at Celleno April

1613;

1,

He was a pupil of a baptized Jew, Giovanni Battista, who instructed him in Hedied Oct. 19, 1687.

brew; and on completing his studies he became a pries* of the Cistercian order. It was from Battista

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glass materials. An enthusiastic patron of art, great credit is due to Bartholdy for giving a fresh impulse to the revival of fresco-painting. He engaged four German Cornelius, Overbeck, Schadow, and Veit— artists

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adorn his house with frescos, the well-known Casa Bartholdy, or Casa Zuecari, in the Via Sistina in Rome. In 1887 the house was torn down, and the famous frescos representing the story of Joseph were bought by the Prussian government and transferred to the National Gallery in Berlin (Donop, "Die Wandgemalde der Casa Bartholdy," Berlin, to

1889).

The Museum

of Berlin

bought Bartholdy's

important collection of antiques, comprising Etruscan vases, bronzes, ivories, majolicas, etc., which

now displayed

are

in the National Gallery.

Bibliography: Brockhaus, Konversations-Lexihon, 14th ed., s.t.; Meyer, Konversations-Lexikon, 5th ed.; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie Uni;

verselte.

A.

S.

BARTHOLOMAION.

S.

C.

Ben Temalion.

"O) One of the aposmentioned only in Matt. x. 3 Mark iii. 18 Luke vi. 14: Acts i. 13. Some writers identify him with the Nathanael of John i. 45 et seg. xxi. 2, but on insufficient grounds. He is mentioned by Eusebius ("Church History," v. 3, 10) as having preached the Gospel in India (which name included Arabia Felix). According to other legends he suf;





,

fered 2,

20;

Bartolocci, "Bibliotheca Rabfoicte.")

that Bartolocci obtained his great knowledge of Hebrew and rabbinical literature, on account of which he was appointed, in 1651, professor of Hebrew and Rabbinics at the Collegium Neophytorum at Rome, and likewise " Scriptor Hebraicus " at the Vatican Library. It was in the Vatican, and with the assistance of his teacher and guide, Battista, who was his coworker at the library, that Bartolocci received his preparation for the work that was to give him lasting fame in the world of Jewish bibliography and it was at the Vatican and its subsidiary libraries

See

BARTHOLOMEW OD^D

tles

Giulio Bartolocci. (From

martyrdom (Assemani, "Bibl. Orientalis," iii. see also Lipsius, "Apocryphe Apostelge-

that he obtained his chief materials. In 1675 he began in Rome the publication of his " Bibliotheca Magna Rabbinica" a bibliography, in Latin and Hebrew, of Hebrew literature, arranged according This work appeared to the names of the authors.

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volumes, 1675-93 (with the Hebrew title which were published by the author and the fourth by Carlo Giuseppi Imbonati, his disciple. Imbonati's supplement contained a list of authors arranged according to the subjects on in four folio

"IDD )V"lp), three of