Bruno Lavagnini

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Bruno Lavagnini , Greek Μπρούνο Λαβανίνι (born October 3, 1898 in Siena , † March 20, 1992 in Palermo ) was an Italian classical philologist , Byzantinist and Neo-Grecist .

Live and act

For Lavagnini, who in addition to his chair for “Greek Literature” represented Modern Greek Literature for three decades with an additional teaching position, Byzantine and Modern Greek literature was the natural development of ancient Greek literature, which could not be viewed in isolation. It was therefore particularly important to him to make modern Greek literature compulsory alongside classical Greek literature in the university's curriculum, but also to make it accessible to a wider public through translations.

Lavagnini was dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Palermo from 1965 to 1973 , director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Athens ( Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene ), whose reconstruction he directed after the Second World War (1952 to 1959), founder of the independent from the University of Palermo Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (German: "Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies"), which today bears his name, and Greek honorary consul in Palermo. He gave up this task after the putsch of the colonels in 1967. From 1963 to 1972 he was chairman of the Italian Byzantine Union.

For many years he was president of the Accademia di scienze, lettere e arti in Palermo, of which he had been a full member since 1936, and a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei since 1963 and a full member from 1972 . In 1964 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Athens , and in 1974 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. He was also an honorary doctor of the University of Athens since 1937 . For Arodafnusa. 32 Poeti Neogreci (1880–1940) , a bilingual edition of poems by modern Greek poets, he received the Premio Marzotto in 1957 .

From 1975 to 1981 he was President of the Fondazione Giuseppe Whitaker , which has its headquarters in the Villa Malfitano in Palermo. The Greek library of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Palermo (AGLAIA. Dipartimento di studi greci, latini e musicali) was named after him. With the formation of the Dipartimento Scienze Umanistiche , the old names officially fell away. The local group of the AICC (Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica) also has the addition of Bruno Lavagnini.

His daughter is the Byzantine and Neo-Graecist Renata Lavagnini .

Fonts (selection)

  • Eroticorum Graecorum fragmenta papyracea , Leipzig: Teubner 1922.
  • Saggio sulla storiografia greca . Bari: Laterza 1933.
  • L'idillio secondo di Teocrito: illustr. con app. di nuovi testi , Palermo 1935.
  • La letteratura neoellenica . Firenze: Sansoni 1969.
  • ATAKTA. Scritti minori di filologia classica, bizantina e neogreca. Palermo: Palumbo 1978.
  • Scritti di storia sulla Grecia antica, bizantina e moderna . A cura di Renata Lavagnini, Caltanissetta 1997.
  • Autobiografia di Bruno Lavagnini , in: ATAKTA. Pp. VII-XXV
  • La mia Pisa . In: Eikasmós 3, 1992, pp. 301–303 online (PDF, 3 MB).

literature

  • Enzo Degani : Ricordo di Bruno Lavagnini . In: Eikasmós 3, 1992, pp. 307–322 ( online version (PDF; 12.5 MB)).
  • Gennaro D'Ippolito , Salvatore Nicosia, Vincenzo Rotolo (eds.): Giornate di studio sull'opera di Bruno Lavagnini. Palermo, 7-8 maggio 1993. Atti (= Quaderni dell'Istituto di Filologia greca dell 'Università di Palermo. Vol. 22). Palermo 1995.
  • Herbert Hunger : Bruno Lavagnini. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for 1991/92. 142nd year, Vienna 1993, pp. 527-528.
  • Claudia Montuschi:  Lavagnini, Bruno. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64:  Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
  • Vincenzo Rotolo: Premessa . In: Byzantino-Sicula III. Miscellanea di scritti in memoria di Bruno Lavagnini (= Quaderni. Istituto siciliano di studi bizantini e neoellenici. Vol. 14). Palermo 2000, pp. VII-X ISSN  0075-1545 .
  • Vincenzo Rotolo: Bruno Lavagnini: Siena, 3 ottobre 1891 – Palermo, 20 March 1992. In: The Modern Greek Studies. Yearbook of The University of Minnesota 8, 1992, pp. 357-393.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ History of the Fondazione "Giuseppe Whitaker"
  2. ^ Website of the Dipartimento ( Memento of June 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Page of Scienze umanistiche .
  4. ↑ List at AICC
personal data
SURNAME Lavagnini, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist, neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Siena
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1992
Place of death Palermo