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Ignazio Guidi (1844 – 18 April 1935) was an Italian orientalist. He became professor at the University of Rome. He is known as a
Biography
Ignazio Guidi (1844 – 18 April 1935) was an Italian orientalist. He became professor at the University of Rome. He is known as a Hebraist
A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, a ...
and for many translations.
He learned semitic languages from Pius Zingerle
Pius Zingerle (17 March 1801 – 10 January 1881) was an Austrian Orientalist.
Life
Zingerle was born at Meran, Tyrol. After studying the humanities at Meran, philosophy and two years of theology at Innsbruck, he joined the Benedictines ...
and Father Vincenti, and taught himself Ge'ez.
He discovered the '' Khuzistan Chronicle'', and edited the ''Chronicle of Edessa
The ''Chronicle of Edessa'' ( la, Chronicon Edessenum) is an anonymous history of the city of Edessa written in the mid-6th century in the Syriac language. "''Chronicle of Edessa''" is a conventional title; in the manuscript it is titled ''Histor ...
''.
He also edited for the first time a letter of Simeon of Beth Arsham
Simeon of Beth Arsham ( syr, ܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܒܝܬ ܐܪܫܡ, Shemʿun di-Beth Arsham) was a Syrian bishop who spread his teachings at the beginning of the sixth century. He was the bishop of Beth Arsham (''House of Arsames''), which was located near ...
about the martyrs of Najran, the oldest evidence for this historical event.
He was the student of the Ethiopian scholar Däbtära Keflä-Giorgis, who played a "crucial role as teacher of the person who could be described as the father of Ethiopian studies in Italy, Ignazio Guidi."
Works
* 1881: ''La lettera di Simeone vescovo di Bêth-Arśâm sopra i Martiri omeriti''. Roma, Salviucci. * 1890: ''Al-Istidrāk ‘alā Sībawayh'' byAbū Bakr al-Zubaydī
Abū Bakr al-Zubaydī (), also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Madḥīj al-Faqīh and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī (), held the title ''Akhbār al-fuquhā'' and wrote books on topics including philo ...
. Rome.
* 1895: ''Il "Gadla 'Aragâwî" : memoria del socio Ignazio Guidi : letta nella seduta del 21 giugno 1891''. Roma : Tip. della R. Accademia dei Lincei.
* 1897: ''Il Fetha Nagast o "Legislazione dei Ref", Codice ecclesiastico e civile di Abissinia pubblicato da Ignazio Guidi''. Roma: Casa editr. italiana.
* 1900: (with: Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow, ''et al.'') ''Tables alphabétiques du Kitâb al-aġânî ...'' Leiden, E.J. Brill.
* 1901: (with: Francesco Gallina & Enrico Cerulli
Enrico Cerulli (15 February 1898 - 19 September 1988) was an Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, a governor and a diplomat.
Biography
Cerulli was born in Naples, Italy in 1898. He wrote his doctoral thesis at the University of Nap ...
) ''Vocabolario amarico-italiano''. Roma: Casa Editrice Italiana.
* 1903: ''Chronica minora''. 2 vols. (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium) Lipsiae: Harrassowitz.
* 1903: ''Annales Iohannis I, Iyāsu I, Bakāffā''. Parisiis : E Typographeo Reipublicae.
* 1931: ''Storia della letteratura etiopica''
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