Bonaventure Hepburn
SCOTTISH PHILOLOGIST AND MINIM FRIAR (1573-1620)
James Bonaventure Hepburn; James Hepburn (philologist); Bonaventure Hepburn (philologist)
Bonaventure Hepburn (born James Hepburn; 14 July 1573, East Lothian – October 1620 or 1621, Venice, Italy) was a Scottish Roman Catholic linguist, lexicographer, philologist and biblical commentator. He was a scholar of some renown and rose to the post of Keeper of Oriental Books and Manuscripts at the Vatican.