Names
Birth
He was born at Piedmont↗ in 1872.
Period of Activity
He was one of the most prominent Ethiopianists of the 20th century. He started his career as a civil servant in the Treasury of the Italian government. He represented the Treasury in Paris↗ in the years 1908-1910 and as a financial expert attended international conferences. In 1914, he became the Secretary-General in the Italian Administration. A decade later, he was named Councillor of the State. From1920-1949, he held the chair of History and Languages of Abyssinia in the University of Rome↗ faculity of Humanities, succeeding his teacher Ignazio Guidi↗ . Besides his official engagements as a civil servant, he profoundly developed his scientific work in the field of the humanities. He won an important place in editing of Ethiopic texts.
Death
1949
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Names
- Carlo Conti Rossini
Dates
Birth: 1872
Period of activity: 1890–1949
Death: 1949
Occupation
scholar
Faith
notSpecified
Nationality
Italy
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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RICCI, L. 1983. ‘Conti Rossini, Carlo’, Dizionario biografico degli italiani, 28 (1983), 527–529. page 527-529
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Nallino, M. 1949. ‘Bibliografia degli scritti di Carlo Conti Rossini’, Oriente Moderno, 29/7–9 (1949), 103–112.
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Conti Rossini, C. 1914. Notice sur les manuscrits éthiopiens de la Collection d’Abbadie, Extrait du Journal Asiatique (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1914).
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Ricci, L. 2003. ‘Conti Rossini’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 791a–792b.
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