Filippo Sassetti

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Filippo Sassetti (* 1540 in Florence , † 1588 in Goa , India ) was a Florentine merchant, linguist and traveler.

Life

Sassetti attended various academies in Florence, he wrote a discourse on Dante and made a translation of Aristotle's poetics . He studied in Florence and Pisa and entered the Accademia degli Alterati . On his trade trips Sassetti came to India via Constantinople and Tehran . In order to expand his position as a trader, he soon took an interest in Sanskrit . Sassetti is one of the first Europeans to deal with this language and script. Around 1585 he discovered word similarities between the Indo-Aryan languages and Italian .

At the age of 48, Sassetti died in Goa and found his final resting place there.

Fonts

  • Ettore Marcucci (Ed.): Lettere edite e inedite di Filippo Sassetti. Raccolte e annotate . Le Monnier, Florence 1855.

literature

  • Jean-Claude Muller: Early stages of language comparison from Sassetti to Sir William Jones . In: Kratylos . Critical report and review organ for Indo-European and general linguistics , vol. 31 (1986), issue 1, p. 31f. ISSN  0023-4567

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Claude Muller: Early stages of language comparison from Sassetti to Sir William Jones (1786). Kratylos 1986
personal data
SURNAME Sassetti, Filippo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Florentine merchant
DATE OF BIRTH 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH 1588
Place of death Goa , India