Caballero, Raimundo Drospapno, miscellaneous writer, chiefly ecclesiastical, b. at Palma, in the island of Majorca, 19 June, 1740; d. at Rome, either 16 Jan., 1830, or 28 April, 1829. He entered the Society of Jesus 15 November, 1752, held the chair of literature in the Jesuit College at Madrid for several years, and was deported with the other Jesuits to Italy when the Society was suppressed in the Spanish dominions. In his new home Father Caballero developed a varied literary activity. The following are the most important of his works: (1) ‘De prima typographixe hispanic «tate specimen” (Rome, 1793); (2) ‘“Commentariola critica, primum de discipliná arcani, secundum de linguá evangelicá” (Rome, 1798).—The author corrects in this work what he considers to be the mistakes of Schelstrate and Hardouin, and proves that the native tongue of Christ and the Apostles was Syriac, not Greek, as Dominicus Diodati (d. 1801) had maintained in his ‘De Christo loquente exercitatio” (Naples, 1767).—(3)“ Bibliothecxe Seriptorum Societatis Jesu supplementa. Supplementum primum” (Rome, 1814), ‘“Supplementum alterum” (Rome, 1816); (4) Father Caballero shows his Scriptural 1
5 knowledge in his “Tetraglotton D. Marci Evangelium, et Marcologia critica’; “El Evangelio de S. Marcos escrito en latin, griego y hebreo, con los tres alfabetos”. (5) Not to mention several historical works, we may add here his writings on American subjects: “Observaciones americanas, y suplemento critico & la historia de México”; “Medios para estrechar mas la union entre espanoles americanos y europeos”; “Consideraciones americanas”.
Sommervogel, Bibl. de la c. de J., U1, 481 sqq. (Brussels, 1891); HURTER, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1895), III, 874.
A. J. Maas.