Name	Barbatus, Josephus
Alternative Names	alternative name: Yusuf ibn Abu Dhaqn
ID	19108
Gender	male
Lifespan	1570 - 1659
Professions	Dolmetscher

Collection(s)	QHOD Dolmetscher
Uri(s)	https://mpr.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/entity/19108/
Notes	He was born in Cairo around 1570 and was a member of the Coptic Church of Alexandria. He arrived in Rome in 1595, where he worked as an Arabic language teacher and converted to Roman Catholicism. As a teacher of eastern languages, he visited the Universities of Paris and Oxford and taught in the Netherlands. In 1618 he worked as a linguist at the Bavarian Court. He came to Vienna on the recommendation of Archduke Albert, governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, and from 1622 he was an embassy interpreter in Constantinople. From 1649 he was an eastern-language instructor at the War Council in Vienna, and from 1650 to 1653 he taught in Győr and translated, partly in Komárom. He then retired, receiving an annuity from the Aulic Chamber until his death in Vienna in 1659.
References	Alastair HAMILTON: An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of Letters: Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 57 (1994), 123–150. Zsuzsanna Cziráki: A Habsburg Monarchia keleti nyelvi tolmácsai a 17. században, Reciti - Budapest, 2024.