Giuliano Bonfante

Giuliano Bonfante & Larissa Bonfante: The Etruscan Language. (2002)

Giuliano Bonfante (born August 6, 1904 in Milan , † September 7, 2005 in Rome ) was an Italian linguist , specialist in Indo-European languages and an outstanding representative of neolinguistics .

Giuliano was the son of the famous Italian legal historian Pietro Bonfante . In 1939, as an anti-fascist, he felt compelled to emigrate to the USA. In the 1940s and 1950s he taught linguistics at Princeton University and was a co-founder of the International Linguistic Association, which emerged from the Linguistic Circle of New York . At the end of the 1950s he taught at the University of Genoa and in 1960 he was appointed Professor of Historical Linguistics at the University of Turin . In 1969 he became a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei . He was a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences .

His daughter Larissa Bonfante is also an Etruscanologist. She worked with her father.

Publications (selection)

Della intonazione sillabica indoeuropea (Rome, 1930)
I dialetti indoeuropei (Naples, 1931)
Latini e Germani in Italia (Brescia, 1965)
La dottrina neolinguistica (Turin, 1970)
Studi romeni (Rome, 1973)
The Etruscan language: an introduction (New York, 1983, ² 2002, with Larissa Bonfante)
La protopatria degli Slavi (Wrocław, 1984)
Grammatica latina: per le Scuole Medie Superiori (Milan, 1987)
The origin of the Romance languages: stages in the development of Latin (1999, with Larissa Bonfante)

Bonfante, Giuliano. In: Lessico universale italiano , Volume III, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1969, p. 358.
Bonfante, Giuliano. In: La piccola Treccani , Volume II, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1995, p. 287.

Obituary by Lorenzo Renzi (Italian; PDF file; 5 kB)

personal data
SURNAME	Bonfante, Giuliano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian linguist and etrusologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milan
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 2005
Place of death	Rome