Amedeo Peyron

Vittorio Amedeo Peyron , the first name also in the form of the name Amadeo (born October 2, 1785 in Turin , † April 27, 1870 ibid) was an Italian orientalist and linguist .

Professional career

Since 1815 Peyron was active at the University of Turin as a professor for oriental languages. In his area of expertise, he was particularly concerned with research into the Coptic language . His work on this language soon gave him an international reputation, with his Coptic dictionary and a grammar of the Coptic language, which he published after years of research, established and consolidated his fame in this field of research. Peyron also achieved great merit through the publication of papyri from the Turin and Vienna collections as well as through his palimpsest research , during which he discovered previously unknown fragments of the works of Cicero , Empedocles and Parmenides as well as the Codex Theodosianus .

Honors

Peyron was a member of the Turin Academy of Sciences.
Since 1820 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian and since 1836 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
On May 31, 1865 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts.
Peyron was u. a. Knight of the Legion of Honor and Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy ( cavaliere di gran croce dell'Ordine della Corona d'Italia ).

Works

Lexicon Linguae Copticae . 1835.
Peyronis Lexicon copticum. Accedunt auctaria ex Ephemeridi aegyptiaca berolinensi excerpta . Ed. By. Calvary. Berlin 1896.
Grammatica Linguae Copticae . 1841.
Investigations into papyrus scrolls, Coptic manuscripts and a stele with triple inscription in the Royal Egyptian Museum in Turin . 1824.
Empedoclis et Pramenidis fragmenta ex codice Taurinensis bibliothecae restituta et illustrata . [Ed.] Amadeo Peyron. Leipzig 1814.
Codicis Theodosiani fragmenta inedita ex codice palimpsesto bibliothecae . [Author] Theodosius (Imperium Byzantinum, Imperator, II.), [Ed.] Vittorio Amadeo Peyron. 1823.

Web links

Literature by and about Amedeo Peyron in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Vittore Amadeo Peyron. (No longer available online.) Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , formerly in the original ; accessed on May 22, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bbaw.de
↑ http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/lösungen/amadeo-peyron?m=4&u=7
↑ The Orden pour le mérite for Science and the Arts, the members of the Order. Vol. 1. 1842-1881. Berlin, 1975, p. 260. There is also a photograph of a portrait bust of Peyron.

personal data
SURNAME	Peyron, Amedeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Peyron, Vittorio Amadeo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian orientalist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 2, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH	Turin
DATE OF DEATH	April 27, 1870
Place of death	Turin

[1] Members of the previous academies. Vittore Amadeo Peyron. (No longer available online.) Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , formerly in the original ; accessed on May 22, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bbaw.de

[2] ttp://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/lösungen/amadeo-peyron?m=4&u=7

[3] The Orden pour le mérite for Science and the Arts, the members of the Order. Vol. 1. 1842-1881. Berlin, 1975, p. 260. There is also a photograph of a portrait bust of Peyron.