Emilio Teza
Emilio Teza (born September 24, 1831 in Venice , † March 30, 1912 in Padua ) was an Italian Romanist , Indo-Europeanist , Orientalist , philologist , linguist , literary scholar and translator .
life and work
Teza, first a librarian - first at the Biblioteca Marciana in his hometown, then at the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence - was from 1860 full professor at the University of Bologna , later in Pisa and Padua .
Teza did not publish an important book, but rather numerous shorter scholarly works from the most varied areas of linguistics and literary studies covering all continents and many languages (from Sanskrit to Coptic to Creole languages ). He translated from several languages (including Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea ) and maintained extensive correspondence with fellow scholars from home and abroad.
In 1886 he was accepted into the Accademia della Crusca in Florence , from 1891 he was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei .
Works (selection)
- (Ed.) Vita, giornali, lettere di Vittorio Alfieri, Florence 1861
- (Ed.) La Fisiognomia, trattatello in francese antico colla versione italiana del, Bologna 1864, 1968
- Saggi inediti di lingue americane, Pisa 1868
- (Ed.) Rainardo elesengrino, Pisa 1869
- (Ed.) Catechismo dei missionari cattolici in lingua algonchina, Pisa 1872
- (Translator) Traduzioni, Milan 1888
- (Translator) Guglielmo de Lorris, Dal Romanzo della Rosa, Padua 1896
Correspondence ( carteggi )
- Epistolario de Rufino José Cuervo y Emilio Teza, ed. by Ana Hauser and Jorge Páramo Pomareda, Bogotá 1965
- Carteggio GI Ascoli -E. Teza, ed. by Rita Peca Conti, Pisa 1978
- Ivan Seidl, Jaroslav Vrchlický and Emilio Teza v kontextu česko-italských literárních a kulturních vztahů, Brno 1988
- A correspondência entre Joaquim de Araújo e Emilio Teza, 1895–1910. Espólios da Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, de Veneza, ed. by Manuel G. Simões, Lisbon 1998
literature
- Guido Mazzoni: Teza, Emilio . In: Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1937 ( online at treccani.it)
- Carlo Frati , Bibliografia di Emilio Teza. Indice cronologico de suoi scritti e stampa e di quelli che lo riguardono (1855–1913) , Venice 1913
- Francesco Flamini, Poeti e critici della nuova Italia , Naples 1920
- Jolanda Marchiori, Emilio Teza, traduttore di poesia popolare serbo-croata , Padua 1959
Individual evidence
Web links
- University of Bologna, Archivio Storico - Ritratti di docenti (with a picture and a biographical outline of Pier Gabriele Goidanich on a PDF file )
- Teza, Emilio. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- Literature by and about Emilio Teza in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Teza, Emilio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Romanist, Indo-Europeanist, Orientalist, philologist, linguist, literary scholar and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1831 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1912 |
Place of death | Padua |