Giuseppe Simone Assemani

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Giuseppe Simone Assemani

Giuseppe Simone Assemani (born August 27, 1687 in Hasroun ( Lebanon ), † January 13, 1768 in Rome ), sometimes also written Asseman , was an orientalist .

Life

Giuseppe Simone came from a Maronite family. He was a seminarian at the Pontifical Maronite College , which was founded in 1584 by Pope Gregory XIII. was founded. He continued his studies in Rome in 1707 and 1708 , where, together with Simone Evodio, also Maronite, he wrote manuals in Arabic on the grammar of Syriac and logic , as well as a treatise also in Arabic on the canon law of the Eastern Churches.

He was ordained a priest in 1710 and then undertook journeys through Egypt , Lebanon and Syria on a papal mandate , during which he collected numerous oriental manuscripts, coins etc. for the Vatican library . At the beginning of 1717 he returned from his travels and became custodian of the Biblioteca Vaticana .

In 1763 he found a manuscript in Old Slavic Glagolitic script in a Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem , which has since been called Codex Assemanianus .

Assemani was named titular archbishop of Tire on December 1, 1766 . The episcopal ordination donated him on December 7, 1766, the Cardinal Bishop of Frascati , Henry Benedict Stuart of York ; Co-consecrators were his nephew, Archbishop Stefano Evodio Assemani , who stood in the Maronite line of ordination , and Bishop Nicolas-Xavier Santamarie .

Giuseppe Simone Assemani died on January 13, 1768 in Rome and was buried in the church of the Maronite College of San Giovanni Evangelista .

Works

  • Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana / Josephus Simonius Assemanus . Rome 1719–1728, 4 volumes . (Contains the Syrian manuscripts of the library mentioned).
    • Reprint: Hildesheim, New York: Olms o. J. Avec une postface par Joseph-Marie Sauget (from 1975).
    • (Oriental library or news from Syrian writers) Joseph Simonius Assemann's Oriental library or news from Syrian writers / published by August Friederich Pfeiffer . German edition by August Friedrich Pfeiffer , Erlangen 1770–1777, 2 volumes.
  • Italicae historiae Scriptores ex Biblioteca Vaticana . Rome 1751–1753, 4 volumes.
  • Kalendaria Ecclesiae Universae . (Rome 1755–1757, 6 volumes).
  • Bibliotheca iuris orientalis canonici et civilis . In 5 libris. (Rome 1762–1766, 5 volumes).
    • Reprint: Aalen Scientia-Verlag undated (approx. 1969)

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personal data
SURNAME Assemani, Giuseppe Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Assemani, Josef Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasroun ( Lebanon )
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1768
Place of death Rome