Ignazio Guidi (1844 – 18 April 1935) was an Italian orientalist. He became professor at the University of Rome. He is known as a

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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 at ...

and Father Vincenti, and taught himself Ge'ez. He discovered the ''

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'', and edited the ''

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''. He also edited for the first time a letter of

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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

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'' by

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. 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 &

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) ''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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guido, Ignazio 1844 births 1935 deaths Italian orientalists Linguists from Italy Italian Hebraists Corresponding fellows of the British Academy