Clemente Romani

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(Don) Clemente Romani , also Clemens Romani (* 1708  ?, According to other information: 1710 or 1712, in Rome ; † around January 1 , or: January 6, 1763 , in Erlangen ), was an Italian language teacher and lecturer who taught Italian and Spanish in Germany.

Life

Clemente Romani claims to have come from an elegant Roman family. After attending a Jesuit college in Naples, he was accepted into the Benedictine order in Rome . He was ordained a priest in Sant'Agata de 'Goti around 1735 . He used a trip to Germany to convert to the Protestant faith in Nuremberg. Romani taught Italian in Jena, soon after moving to Leipzig (enrolled at the university there on March 5, 1748), where he ran two Italian companies, one on Wednesday for the students and one on Sunday for the merchants. In Leipzig he began to write his first works. Later he worked as a language master in Halle, again Jena, Helmstedt (1755–1756), Göttingen and again Jena. From there he returned to Nuremberg. In 1758 he dedicated his autobiography Vita Ed Aventure Di Don Clemente Romani Nativo Romano to the Nuremberg pastor Conrad Schönleben (1711–1759), who had introduced him to Lutheranism 12 years earlier . But it contained “so much Freyes and indecent things” that it was confiscated and Romani had to leave Nuremberg. He turned to Erlangen, where he was matriculated on December 14, 1758. Finally in 1762 he got the position of a lecturer of the Italian language at the Erlangen University .

Works

Romani is the author of an Italian grammar and an Italian-German and German-Italian dictionary. He also worked as a translator (from French and Spanish into Italian).

  • Italian guide, with which one can easily and safely arrive at the knowledge and perfection of the Tuscan-Italian language . Leipzig 1750, 2nd edition 1754.
  • Discorso morale dell'inutilitá della scolastica, Leipzig 1750?, German: Of the useless in the scholastic teaching method. In: Strange Coincidences and Occurrences. Erlangen 1760, pp. 1-77.
  • Il perfido, ed iniqvo filosofo: comedia italiana o essercizio comico / Composto, e rappresentato da Don Clemente Romani colli signori suoi Scolare. Goettingen 1757.
  • Vita Ed Aventure Di Don Clemente Romani Nativo Romano. Prima Religioso Sacerdote Confessore E Predicatore Nel Suo Monastero Di Sant 'Agata Ai Monti In Roma Della Congregazione Benedettina Di Monte Vergine. Hora Maestro Della Sua Materna Toscana Lingua In Norimberga. Raspe, [Sl] 1758, ( online ).
  • Practical Italian grammar for both genders. Nuremberg 1759, new ed. and with the French language increasingly from Hanibal Franz Savini. Nuremberg 1798.
  • Strange coincidences and incidents of Don Clementis Romani from Rome, a native teacher of the Italian, Tuscan and Hispanic languages ​​of Erlang. Self-published, Erlangen 1760, ( online ).
  • Nuovo Dizzionario Italiano-Tedesco E Tedesco Italiano, Secondo L'Ortografia Dell'Accademia Della Crusca, Or Complete Italian-German and German-Italian Words Book. ed. by Wolfgang Jäger , Nuremberg 1764; 2nd increased edition, Nuremberg 1786, 1st volume , 2nd volume ; 3rd edition, Nuremberg 1820.

literature

  • Georg Andreas Will , Christian Conrad Nopitsch: Nürnberger Gelehrtenlexikon. Nürnberg and Altdorf, Volume 4 (1758), p. 465, ( online ), Volume 7 (1806), p. 308, ( online ).
  • Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher: Scholars history of the royal Prussian Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . Volume 3, Nuremberg 1806, pp. 268-274, ( online ).
  • Karl von Weber : From four centuries: communications from the main state archive. Volume 1, Leipzig 1857, pp. 299-305, ( online ).

Web links

Wikisource: Clemente Romani  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ^ Clemente Romani: Vita Ed Aventure . 1758, pp. 27-28. Ricevuto l'assolutione dalla santa sede ebbi la licenza dal mio Abbate di poter partire per Sant'Agheta de Goti, per esser ordinato Sacerdote da quel Vescovo, che si chiamava Don Mutio Gaeta, che poco doppo divenne Arciverscovo [!] Di Bari, e che con sommo suo gusto m'ordinò nelle festivals di Pentecoste sacerdote, e poi ritornai al mio Monastero di Marigliano . Mutio Gaeta was appointed Archbishop of Bari on November 21, 1735. catholic-hierarchy.org
  2. ↑ Georg Erler : The younger matriculation of the University of Leipzig 1559-1809 . Leipzig 1909, Vol. 3, p. 335
  3. ↑ Professor catalog Helmstedt ; Matriculation on November 8, 1755 HAB Wolfenbüttel
  4. ^ Georg Andreas Will : Bibliotheca Norica . Part 3 (1774), p. 39, ( online )
  5. ^ Hermann Varnhagen : The modern language editing at the University of Erlangen from 1743 to 1884 . In: On the inauguration of the new rooms of the seminar for English philology and the seminar for Romance philogy at the University of Erlangen on November 7th, 1907. Jacob, Erlangen 1907, p. 3-17, here: p. 6
  6. ↑ including Antoine-François Prévost : Memorie dell 'auventure d'un huomo di qualita ò del marchese di *** . 7 volumes, Jena 1755–1756
  7. ^ Miguel de Cervantes : La Zingarella, ò gli amori di Don Giovanni de Carcama, e Donna Costanza d'Azevedo . Leipzig 1751. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing suspected in his negative review of the work that Romani had not translated directly from Spanish, but from a French version. In: Critical News from the Realm of Learning. On the year 1751, 7th piece, pp. 54–56, in: All writings , ed. by Karl Lachmann and Franz Muncker , Volume 4, 1889, pp. 204–206 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Romani, Clemente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romani, Don Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian language master
DATE OF BIRTH around 1708-1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH on January 1, 1763 or January 6, 1763
Place of death gain