Aristide Baragiola

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Signature of Aristide Baragiola in a letter to Albert Bachmann , October 14, 1916

Aristide Baragiola (born October 19, 1847 in Chiavenna , Austrian Empire ; † January 8, 1928 in Zurich ) was an Italian teacher, German , Romance studies , folklorist , lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and professor at the University of Padua .

Baragiola worked at private schools in Como and Grenchen and founded his own private institutes in Riva San Vitale , Strasbourg and Padua . As a university lecturer in Strasbourg and Padua, he strived to convey Italian culture in the German-speaking area and, conversely, German culture in Italy. The focus of his research, however, was on the folklore and the farmhouse of the southern Bavarian (including Cimbrian ), Walser German and Ladin language islands in northern Italy and southern Switzerland.

Life

Aristide was one of at least eight sons of the married couple Giuseppe Baragiola, middle school teacher from Como, and Noseda, born Angela, elementary school teacher from Breccia di Como. The father, a liberal , founded a private school in Chiavenna , which was then still Austrian , a little north of Como. In 1852 the family was expelled from Chiavenna because of their liberal beliefs and settled in the nearby Swiss town of Mendrisio ( Canton Ticino ). The father was later able to return to Como , where he again founded a private school, the Istituto Baragiola .

In 1866, Aristide Baragiola fought in the third Italian War of Independence under Enrico Guicciardi on the Stilfser Joch against Austria and in the same year, at 19, became vice director of his father's school.

In 1872 he settled in Grenchen ( Canton Solothurn ), Switzerland , in order to take up a position as a teacher of Italian language and culture as well as history and geography at the Breidenstein International Institute . In 1874 he moved on to Strasbourg in what was then Alsace, Germany, where he taught Italian and worked on his dissertation at the same time. In 1876 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Giacomo Leopardi , who, along with Alessandro Manzoni, was the most important innovator of Italian literary language.

In 1878 Baragiola founded an international private school with his father and brothers in Riva San Vitale in southern Ticino . But in 1883 he returned to Strasbourg, where he set up an institute to perfect his German and French language skills. In 1884 he founded the magazine Il crocchio italiano there .

From 1889 Baragiola worked at the University of Padua ; In 1917, at the age of seventy, he was appointed full professor of German language and literature. During this time he was also an adviser to the Società nazionale delle tradizioni popolari and director of an educational establishment that bore his name.

In 1877 Baragiola married Augusta Breidenstein, the daughter of the director of the International Institute Breidenstein in Grenchen, where he had worked for two years. Their family came from Germany and was naturalized in Grenchen and thus in Switzerland in 1878. The couple had two children, Wilhelm Italo Baragiola- Rüegg (1879–1928, head of the chemical department at the Swiss Research Institute for Fruit, Wine and Horticulture in Wädenswil, Zurich canton chemist and lecturer or professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) and Elsa Nerina Baragiola (1881–1968, professor at the Zurich Daughter School and honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich ). Aristide Baragiola died at the age of eighty in Zurich, where his children lived.

Act

Baragiola was one of the first representatives of German philology in Italy and made a great contribution to promoting the study of German and Italian language and literature in the respective other language area. To this end, he created an Italian chrestomathy and an Italian grammar for German speakers and published several works in Old, Middle and New High German for Italian students of German studies ( Hildebrandslied , Muspilli , Der arme Heinrich , poems by Walthers von der Vogelweide , Johann Fischart's Lucky Ship from Zurich and Goethe's Italian trip ).

Primarily, however, he researched and published on folklore and the farmhouse , especially in the southern Bavarian ( Asiago , Roana , Fersental , Sappada , Sauris , Timau ), Walser German ( Bosco / Gurin , Formazza ) and Ladin ( Agordo , Cadore ) language islands in Northern Italy.

Fondo Aristide Baragiola

Baragiola's estate is managed by the Como City Museum as Fondo Aristide Baragiola . A particular focus of this archive is on research on the German-speaking islands in northern Italy. A large part of the estate of the daughter Elsa Nerina is also kept there.

Publications

Title page of “Il canto popular a Bosco o Gurin”, 1891
Title page of «Folklore di Val Formazza», 1914; with handwritten dedication for Otto Gröger
On the German and Italian language and literature
  • Giacomo Leopardi, filosofo, poeta e prosatore. Dissertation University of Strasbourg. Trübner, Strasbourg 1876.
  • Italian grammar with consideration of the Latin and Romance sister languages. Trübner, Strasbourg 1880.
  • Crestomazia italiana ortofonica. Trübner, Strasbourg 1881.
  • Della filologia tedesca. Prelezione tenuta nella r. Universita di Padova il Giorno 2 Maggio 1889. Tipografia Operaia A. Bianchi, Asti 1889 (Biblioteca delle Scuole Italiane 15).
To folklore
  • Il canto popolare a Bosco o Gurin, colonia tedesca nel Cantone Ticino. Presso Fulvio Giovanni, Cividale 1891.
  • Le fiabe cimbre del vecchio Jeckel. The fables of the gavattar Jekkelle. Raccolte da Aristide Baragiola ad Asiago nel 1893. Again ed. from the Istituto di cultura cimbra, Roana 1987.
  • Folklore inedito di alcune colonie tedesche nella regione italica. In: Bollettino di filologia moderna 4 (1902), nos. 3-4; 6 (1904), nos. 3-4 and 8-9.
  • Villaggi e case delle colonie tedesche nella zona italica. In: Bollettino di filologia moderna 5 (1903), nos. 19-20.
  • Il canto popolare inglese. Gius. Laterza, Bari 1902 (Piccola biblioteca di cultura moderna 3).
  • I mocheni ossia i tedeschi della Valle del Fersina in Trentino. Tip. Emiliana, Venezia 1905.
  • Il tumulto delle donne di Roana per il Ponte, nel dialetto cimbro di Camporovere, Sette Comuni. Tip. Fratelli Salmin, Padova 1906 or 1907.
  • Folklore cadorino. Dialetto e costumi di Sappada. In: Cadore 2 (1908), nos. 5-7.
  • La casa villereccia delle colonie tedesche veneto - tridentine. Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo 1908.
  • Sulla casa villereccia. In: [Atti del] Primo Congresso di Etnografia Italiana, Roma, 19–24 ottobre 1911. Also as a special print: ([Perugia], [1912]).
  • Una leggenda di Formazza. Ermanno Loescher, Roma 1912.
  • La casa villereccia dello Zoldano. Chiasso 1912.
  • La casa villereccia dell'Agordino. Tettamanti, Chiasso 1913.
  • Folklore di Val Formazza. Ermanno Loescher, Roma 1914.
  • La casa villereccia del Tirolo. Tettamanti, Chiasso 1914.
  • La casa villereccia delle colonie tedesche del gruppo carnico. Sappada, Sauris e Timau con raffronti delle zone contermini italiana et austriaca: Carnia, Cadore, Zoldano, Agordino, Carintia e Tirolo. Peregrinazione folcloriche. Tipografia Tettamanti, Chiasso 1915.
  • Documenti latini, italiani e tedeschi di Formazza. In: Bollettino Storico per la Provincia di Novara 3 (1918) and 4 (1919), also as a special print: Stabilimento tipigrafico cattaneo, Novara 1919.
As editor
  • Poor Heinrich, von Hartmann von Aue. Version in prosa. Trübner, Strasbourg 1881.
  • Muspilli, ovvero l'incendio universale. Versione con introduzione ed appendice. Schulz, Strasbourg 1882.
  • Dall'antico inglese. The Hildebrand song. L'inno d'Ildebrando. Versione con introduzione ed appendice. Schulz, Strasbourg 1882.
  • La nave avventurosa di Zurigo. The lucky ship from Zurich. Prima versione metrica. Schmidt, Strasbourg 1884.
  • Goethe's Italian journey. With notes, dictionary and subject index. Ehlermann, Dresden 1889.
  • Dal canzoniere di Walther von der Vogelweide. Tre versioni. Tipografia dei Fratelli Salmin, Padova 1908.

literature

  • Maria Cristina Brunati: Breve biografia di Aristide Baragiola. In: City Archives and City Museum Como (ed.): Fondo Aristide Baragiola. Inventario d'archivio. Como 2004, p. 5 ( digitized ; also on lombardia beni culturali.it ).
  • Angelo De Gubernatis : Piccolo dizionario dei contemporanei italiani. Forzani e C. Tipografi del Senato, Rome 1895, p. 61.
  • Guido Scaramellini: Chiavennaschi nella storia. Chiavenna 1976 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Gubernatis writes in his first edition of Dizionario, which came out in 1879 (p. 93), Aristide Baragiola was then from 1861 to 1863 a pupil at the canton school ("Ginnasio cantonale") Lucerne and in 1864 at the canton school Mendrisio and in 1865 in Lausanne learned French. In the list and ranking of the students of the cantonal school and theology in Lucern, individually determined according to the classes and subjects and compiled at the end of the school year […], Gebr. Räber, Lucerne, for the school years 1861/62, 1862/63 and 1863 / 4 but no Baragiola listed.
  2. ↑ De Gubernatis writes that Baragiola created the chair of Italian philology in Strasbourg in 1874 at his own expense. Brunati and Scaramellini do not comment on this.
  3. ↑ For Giuseppe (Joseph) Baragiola and his son Emilio Baragiola see Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Vol. I, p. 564.
  4. ↑ Brunati writes "1889"; De Gubernatis "1891". The statement of the latter contradicts the fact that Baragiola gave his inaugural address Della filologia tedesca in 1889 (see the chapter on literature).
  5. ↑ So Brunati and Scaramellini; after De Gubernatis he was a "professore" from 1891, although this term has a wider meaning in Italian than in German.
  6. ↑ Not “Breindenstein”, as Scaramellini writes.
  7. ^ Family name book of Switzerland.
  8. ↑ See Zurich City Archives: Family documents of the Baragiola siblings, on Wilhelm Baragiola in particular Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Vol. I, p. 564: Baragiola, Wilh. Italo; Cantonal Laboratory Zurich: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Italo Baragiola; ETHistory 1855–2005: List of all professors; Society for the History of Wine V .: Baragiola, Wilhelm.
  9. ↑ Only the first volume of both works came out; the planned second volume of grammar and the intended volumes 2 and 3 of chrestomathy no longer appeared.
  10. ↑ For the archive inventory see Fondo Aristide Baragiola.
personal data
SURNAME Baragiola, Aristide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian teacher, German studies, Romance studies, folklorist, lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and professor at the University of Padua
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiavenna , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1928
Place of death Zurich