Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
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 Graziadio Isaia Ascoli. | |
| Born | 16 July 1829 |
| Died | 21 January 1907 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli (pronounced
Life and work
Ascoli was born in an Italian-speaking
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He made an important contribution to the study of the relationship between Indo-European and Semitic languages and was a pioneer in the fields of Romani language[4] and Celtic languages.
In Italy, he is above all known for his studies of Italian dialects, which he was first to classify systematically. On the Italian language question (questione della lingua), he did not accept a standard language, based upon the Florentine dialect as proposed by Alessandro Manzoni, but argued for a leveling of the dialects. In 1873 he founded the journal Archivio glottologico italiano, which became a source of original scholarship on the Italian language.[4]
He was the founder of the so-called
in 1889 Ascoli was appointed a member of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. He was awarded many honorary orders, among which the Prussian/German "Pour le Mérite" and the Italian "Ordine civile di Savoia" and "Ordine dei SS. Maurizio e Lazzaro"; he was also a member of many scientific academies, such as the Accademia dei Lincei (since 1875) and the Accademia della Crusca (since 1895).[5]
Political views
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Ascoli considered himself foremost a
- Euganean Venetia (Venezia Euganea), consisting of the );
- Tridentine Venetia (Venezia Tridentina), that is that part of the Trentino-Alto Adige);
- Julian Venetia (Venezia Giulia), which was the area of the Austrian Littoral, plus the Hungarian port of Rijeka (Fiume).
Ascoli coined these names following the internal divisions in the province of
In
Bibliography
Works published in Italian:
- G.I. Ascoli, La pasitelegrafia, Trieste, Tipografia del Lloyd Austraco, 1851.[6][7]
- G.I. Ascoli, "Del nesso ario-semitico. Lettera al professore Adalberto Kuhn di Berlino", Il Politecnico, vol. 21 (1864), pp. 190–216.
- G.I. Ascoli, "Del nesso ario-semitico. lettera seconda al professore Francesco Bopp", Il Politecnico, vol. 22 (1864) pp. 121–151.
- G.I. Ascoli, "Studi ario-semitici", Memorie del Reale Istituto Lombardo, cl. II, vol. 10 (1867), pp. 1–36.
- Pier Gabriele Goidànich: ASCOLI, Graziadio Isaia, in: Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma 1929 (online su treccani.it).
- S. Morgana – A. Bianchi Robbiati (curr.), Graziadio Isaia Ascoli "milanese". Giornate di Studio. 28 Febbraio – 1 Marzo 2007, Milano, LED Edizioni Universitarie, 2009, ISBN 978-88-7916-415-3.
References
- ^ Graziadio Isaia Ascoli – Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Archivio glottologico italiano : Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia, 1829–1907 ...
- ^ ASCOLI, Graziadio Isaia, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 722–723.
- ^ "Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy". Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^ [1], La pasitelegrafia – Graziadio Isaia Ascoli – Google Books
- ^ [2], La pasitelegrafia by Graziadio Isaia Ascoli | LibraryThing
External links
Works by or about Graziadio Isaia Ascoli at Wikisource
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