Martino Moreno
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
Birth
1892
Period of Activity
He was an Italian state executive and one of the most important scholars in both Islamic and Ethiopian Studies. After he accomplished his classical studies, he started a successful career as a civil servant within the Italian Colonial administration in 1913. He was sent to Libya↗ , and by 1920 he was playing a prominent role in the hierarchy of the Ministry of the Colonies. He continued to serve in colonial offices of the Italian government until the World War II. He taught at several Universities. Between 1957 and the year of his death, he was the editor in chief of two Journals: the Rassegna di Studi Etiopici and the Levante. In the field of Ethiopian Studies, he was the first to describe such Cushitic languages as Giddeʾo, Kambaata, Allaaba, and Burǧi. He wrote grammars of the most important Cushitic languages (Sidaama, Oromiffa, Somali), collected and published texts of Oromiffa and Amharic oral tradition and translated one of the Amharic Chronicle of Tewodros II↗ .
Death
1964
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Names
- Martino Mario Moreno
Dates
Birth: 1892
Period of activity: 1913–1964
Death: 1964
Occupation
scholar
Faith
notSpecified
Nationality
Italy
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Lusini, G. 2007. ‘Moreno, Martino Mario’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 1019a–1020b.
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RICCI, L. 1964. ‘Martino Mario Moreno’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 20 (1964), 5–11.
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