Girolamo Germano
Girolamo Germano , lat. Hieronymus Germanus , French Jérôme Germano (* 1568 in Palermo ; † December 27, 1632 ibid) was an Italian Jesuit and modern Greek philologist.
Life
Little is known about Germano. He was inducted into the Order in 1586 at the age of 18. He taught ancient languages and literature in the Order for eight years before being sent to the island of Chios , where Jesuits had settled since the 1590s. There he worked in pastoral care for 22 years. With this in mind, he wrote a Vocabolario italiano et greco , which he preceded by a modern Greek grammar . The work is significant in phonetic , morphological and lexicographical terms, but was up to the reprint given by Hubert Pernottogether with a detailed introduction to the history of modern Greek grammar and lexicography up to the 19th century, can only be found in very few libraries. Germano is one of the neo-Greek philologists of the early modern period .
bibliography
- Vocabolario italiano et greco, nel quale si contiene come le voci Italiane si dicano in Greco volgare. Con alcune regole generali per quelli che sanno qualche cosa di Gramatica, acciò intendano meglio il modo di declinare, & coniugare li Nomi, & Verbi; & habbiano qualche cognitione della Gramatica di questa lingua Greca volgare. Composto dal P. Girolamo Germano della Compagnia di GIESV. In Roma, per l'Herede di Bartolomeo Zannetti 1622, (online) ; (another copy online) .
- Hubert Pernot (ed.): Girolamo Germano, Grammaire et vocabulaire du grec vulgaire publiés d'après l'édition de 1622. Fontenay-sous-Bois 1907 (thèse supplémentaire présentée à la faculté des lettres de l'Université de Paris), ( online) . - Advertisement by R. Bousquet, in: Échos d'Orient 11, 1908, no. 72, pp. 317-318, (on-line) .
literature
- Antoninus Mongitore: Bibliotheca Sicula sive De Scriptoribus Siculis. ... Tomus Primus. Ex Typographia Didaci Bua, Palermo 1707, p. 277: Hieronymus Germanus (Latin).
- Hubert Pernot (ed.): Girolamo Germano: Grammaire et vocabulaire du grec vulgaire publiés d'après l'édition de 1622. As above, pp. 20-21.
- Carlos Sommervogel : Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Vol. 1, Brussels / Paris 1890, p. 2094.
Web links
- Literature by and about Girolamo Germano in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Germano, Girolamo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Germanus, Hieronymus; Germano, Jérôme |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Jesuit and modern Greek philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1568 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1632 |
| Place of death | Palermo |