Roberto Busa

Italian Jesuit priest and scholar (1913-2011) · Italy · On the map · Religious Figures · Died at 97

Roberto Busa SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis. He was the author of the Index Thomisticus, a complete lemmatization of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and of a few related authors.

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