Giuseppe Luigi Assemani

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Giuseppe Luigi Assemani (Joseph Aloysius Assemanus) (* around 1710 in Tripoli (Lebanon) , † February 9, 1782 in Rome ) was a Catholic priest, orientalist and liturgist in Rome.

Giuseppe Luigi was a nephew of the orientalist Giuseppe Simone Assemani and, like his entire family, comes from the Maronite Church . He was a seminarist at the Pontifical Maronite College , after his ordination he worked in Rome as an interpreter at the Papal Curia, as a professor of Syrian language at the Collegium Sapientiae and for liturgical history at the Pontificia Academia Theologica . His main work, the Codex liturgicus ecclesiae universae , is widely used to this day because it has not been replaced in parts. Of the 15 planned volumes, only volumes I-IV and VIII were completed.

Works (selection)

Dissertatio de unione, et communione ecclesiastica , 1770
  • Codex liturgicus ecclesiae universae in XV libros distributus in quo continentur libri rituales, missales, pontificales, officia, dypticha, etc., ecclesiarum Occidentis, et Orientis . Romae 1749-1766 (Reprint: Gregg, Farnborough 1968/69 in 13 vols.)
  1. (I) De catechumenis (1749).
  2. (II) De baptismo (1749).
  3. (III) De confirmatione (1750).
  4. (IV, 1) De Eucharistia. Missale Romanum Vetus (1751).
  5. (IV, 2) Missal Hierosolymitanum (1752).
  6. (IV, 3) Sacramentarium Veronese vulgo Leonianum (1754).
  7. (IV, 4) Missale Alexandrinum sancti Marci (1754).
  8. (VIII, 1) De ordine. Syrorum Maronitarum Ordinationes (1756).
  9. (VIII, 2) Syrorum Maronitarum sacrae & majores ordinationes (1758).
  10. (VIII, 4) Johannis Morini sacrae Graecorum ordinationes I. (1762)
  11. (VIII, 5) Johannis Morini sacrae Graecorum ordinationes II. (1763)
  12. (VIII, 6) Syrorum Chaldaeorum, Nestoreanorum et Malabarum ordinationes (1766).
  • Commentarius theologico-canonico-criticus de ecclesiis earum reverentia, et asylo atque concordia sacerdotii et imperii . Monaldius, Rome 1766.
  • De catholicis seu patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum commentarius historico-chronologicus . Rome 1775 (reprinted by Gregg International, Farnborough 1969).
  • De synodo dioecesana Dissertatio . Rome 1776.
personal data
SURNAME Assemani, Giuseppe Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Assemani, Joseph Aloysius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian orientalist, professor of oriental languages ​​and liturgy
DATE OF BIRTH around 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Tripoli (Lebanon)
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1782
Place of death Rome