Names
Birth
He was born at Rome↗ in 1844.
Period of Activity
He was an outstanding Italian scholar, a Professor of Hebrew and Semetic languages at the University of Rome↗ from 1876-1919. From 1885-1919, he held the chair of History and Languages of Abyssinia in the same University. He was a brilliant Orientalist on account of his masterly knowledge of ancient Near Eastern languages and civilizations. In his later years, he devoted himself to Ethiopian Studies. Having fully mastered Gǝʿǝz and Amharic, he published Amharic grammar entitled Grammatica elementare della linqua amarica in 1952. He also edited and published several Amharic and Gǝʿǝz texts.
Death
He died at Rome↗ in 1935.
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Names
- Ignazio Guidi
Dates
Birth: 1844
Period of activity: 1864–1935
Death: 1935
Occupation
scholar
Faith
notSpecified
Nationality
Italy
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Conti Rossini, C. 1935. ‘Commemorazione di Ignazio Guidi’, Atti della Reale Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Rendiconti, Classe di scienze morale, storiche e filologiche, Serie sesta, 11 (1935), 471–481. page 471-481
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Guidi, I., ed., 1897. Il “Fetha Nagast” o “Legislazione dei re”: codice ecclesiastico e civile di Abissinia, tr. I. Guidi, I, Pubblicazioni scientifiche del R. Istituto Orientale in Napoli, 2 (Roma: Casa Editrice Italiana, 1897).
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Guidi, I., ed., 1899. Il “Fetha Nagast” o “Legislazione dei Re”: codice ecclesiastico e civile di Abissinia, tr. I. Guidi, II, Pubblicazioni scientifiche del R. Istituto Orientale in Napoli, 3 (Roma: Casa Editrice Italiana, 1899).
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Ricci, L. 2005. ‘Guidi, Ignazio’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 908b–909b.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻIgnazio Guidiʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 4.4.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS4876Guidi [Accessed: 2024-05-05+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 4.4.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
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