Gino Funaioli

Gino Funaioli (born October 2, 1878 in Pomarance , † December 28, 1958 in Florence ) was an Italian classical philologist .

Life

Gino Funaioli, the son of the lawyer and landowner Alessandro Funaioli, attended high schools in Volterra and Siena and then studied classical philology in Florence (among others with Felice Ramorino , Girolamo Vitelli , Ernesto Giacomo Parodi and Pio Rajna ). After graduating Funaioli went in 1901 for a year to Munich to continue his studies at Ludwig Traube and Eduard Wölfflin deepen. At that time, Traube was the leading exponent of Middle Latin , while Wölfflin, the founder of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, was an important Latinist. Funaioli published his first scientific research (in German) in Wölfflin's magazine Archive for Latin Lexicography .

From that time on, Funaioli had permanent connections with German antiquity. He worked as a teacher at the Lyceum in Volterra for a few months, but returned to Germany in 1902. He taught Italian and Latin at the University of Bonn from 1905 to 1913 and was in lively exchange with the classical philologists Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener .

When the First World War broke out , Funaioli returned to Italy. Here he continued his academic career. As early as 1914, he was appointed to the chair of Greek and Latin grammar and Latin literature at the University of Messina . In 1920 he moved to the University of Palermo , in 1927 to the Catholic University in Milan, in 1934 to Bologna and in 1940 to Rome to the University of La Sapienza , where he taught until his retirement. In 1936 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen .

Funaioli was one of the leading exponents of Latin studies in Italy. His work, which he wrote in Italian and German, dealt particularly with the Latin literature of the republican and Augustan times ( Sallust , Horace , Virgil ), but also with later epochs ( Augustine of Hippo ) and with Latin grammar.

literature

• Karl Büchner : Gino Funaioli †. In: Gnomon . Vol. 31, No. 4, 1959, pp. 383-384, JSTOR 27682063 .
• Gian Franco Gianotti: Gino Funaioli. In: Luciano Canfora (ed.): Studi sulla tradizione classica. Per Mariella Cagnetta. Editori Laterza, Rome 1999, ISBN 88-420-5937-4 , pp. 259-268.
• Ettore Paratore: Gino Funaioli. Commemorazione. Istituto di studi romani - Centro di studi ciceroniani, Rome 1960, (with list of publications).

Web links

• Literature by Gino Funaioli in the catalog of the German National Library