Enrico Morpurgo

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Enrico Morpurgo (born July 2, 1894 in Trieste , † March 4, 1972 in Amsterdam ) was an Italian author, Romanist , Italianist, art historian and historian of timekeeping who worked in the Netherlands.

life and work

Morpurgo, whose name (“Marburger”) derives from the city of Maribor (German: Marburg ) and came from a Jewish family from Trieste, studied in Vienna from 1913 to 1918 and received his doctorate in 1919 at the University of Padua with the thesis Le ariette di Pietro Metastasis .

Morpurgo was a private lecturer in Italian at the University of Amsterdam from 1935 to 1947 ( relieved of office at the time of the National Socialist occupation of the Netherlands). From 1947 to 1953 he was a lecturer (lecturer) at the University of Groningen , then again at the University of Amsterdam, first lecturer, from 1959 associate professor and from 1961 to 1962 full professor of Italian.

Enrico Morpurgo from Trieste should not be confused with Enrico Morpurgo (1891–1969), son of Elio Morpurgo , from Udine of the same name .

Publications (selection)

Art history

  • La storia d'un Ercole , Trieste 1920
  • (Ed.) Esposizione d'arte italiana in Olanda. Tentoonstelling van italiaansche kunst in Nederland  : Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 22 october-20 november 1927; Pulchri Studio Den Haag, 9 december-31 december 1927, Amsterdam 1927 (exhibition catalog)
  • Gli artisti in Austria
    • Volume 1, Rome 1937 (From the Beginnings to the 17th Century)
    • 2nd volume, Rome 1962 (18th century)
  • Il castello di Trieste , Trieste 1949

Watch and watchmaking history

  • Dizionario degli orologiai italiani (1300-1880) , Rome 1950; extends Milan 1974
  • L'orologio tascabile , Rome 1951
  • Who Invented the Pocket Watch? Invitation to clarify. In: The watchmaker. Volume 12, 1951, p. 464.
  • Gli sviluppi di una polemica: L'orologio da petto prima del Henlein. Estratto da “La Clessidra” 8 August 1952. Rome 1952.
  • L'origine dell'orologio tascabile = The origin of the watch , Rome 1954.
  • (Ed.) Hoe laat was het? Het Nederlandse uurwerk . Museum Willet Holthuysen, 29 maart-7 mei 1956, Amsterdam 1956 (exhibition catalog)
  • L'orologio e il pendolo , Rome 1957
  • (Ed.) Orologi preziosi dal 16. al 19. Secolo . Con un profilo storico dell'orologeria italiana. Precious watches from the 16th to the 19th century with a historical survey of Italian watchmaking, Milan 1964 (exhibition catalog) (German: Precious watches from the 16th to the 19th century . With a historical introduction to Italian watchmaking, 1975)
  • Gli orologi , Milan 1966, 1984, 1992 (French: Les horloges , Paris 1987).
  • Orologi contraffatti e orologi falsi. Imitations and False clocks. Counterfeit and remodeled watches. Rome 1969.
  • Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 , Amsterdam 1970.
  • Precious clocks from the 16th to 19th centuries. With a historical introduction to Italian watchmaking. Milan (around 1975).
  • L'orologeria italiana dalle origini al quattrocento , Rome 1986

Inaugural lectures

  • De duivel as theoloog , Amsterdam 1948 (University of Groningen)
  • Kwaadsprekerij in Rome , Groningen 1954 (University of Amsterdam)
  • D e nonsens-poëzie , Amsterdam 1960 (University of Amsterdam)

Other works

  • I guanti inglesi , Milan 1930 (novel)
  • Dieci contro uno. L'Olanda nella bufera , Milan 1946 (“Holland in the Storm”, contemporary history 1940–1945)
  • (Translator) Johan Frederik Christiaan Dix and Walter Roozen, Fiori , Milan 1951

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personal data
SURNAME Morpurgo, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author, Romanist, Italianist, art historian and historian of timekeeping who worked in the Netherlands
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1972
Place of death Amsterdam