Michele Amari

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Michele Amari

Michele Amari (born July 7, 1806 in Palermo , † July 16, 1889 in Florence ) was a Sicilian historian and orientalist .

Amari had barely started his studies when his father was first sentenced to death as a participant in a conspiracy in 1820, then pardoned to 30 years in prison, and from then on lived in very difficult circumstances. He devoted himself to the study of Sicilian history and in 1841 published his famous story of the Sicilian Vespers . The Neapolitan police suspected secret political tendencies behind the book, banned it and arrested the publisher. Amari escaped the same fate by fleeing and lived in Paris until 1848, where he had his work reprinted under the title: "La guerra del Vespro Siciliano", which was translated into many languages, including German by Schröder (1851).

Returning to Sicily, he became vice-president of the war committee and then went to France and England as envoy. In Paris he published the pamphlet "La Sicile et les Bourbons". The Restoration drove him into exile again in the summer of 1849, from which he did not return until 1859, when he was given the chair of the Arabic language, which he had eagerly studied during his exile in Paris, first in Pisa and then in Florence. In 1860 he took part in Garibaldi's Sicilian expedition and, as the latter's Foreign Minister, led the important negotiations with Cavour . After Sicily became a senator after the annexation of Sicily to the Kingdom of Italy , he also administered the Ministry of Public Education from 1862-64 and then took over his professorship again, which he held until 1878. In 1863 he was appointed a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1867 he was admitted to the Accademia della Crusca . From 1872 he was an honorary member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1873 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 1875 a member of the Accademia dei Lincei .

Fonts (selection)

  • La guerra del Vespro Siciliano. Milano: Hoepli, 18XX.
    • The Sicilian Vespers War / Michael Amari. From d. Ital. trans. v. Victor Friedrich Lebrecht Petri. Grimma and Leipzig, 18XX.
    • Johann Friedrich Schröder after Michele Amari: The Italians' struggle for freedom in 1282, called the Sicilian Vespers . Leipzig: Kollmann 1851.
  • La Sicile et les Bourbons. Paris 1849.
  • Illustrazione di due iscrizioni arabiche, delle quali possiede i gessi l'Istituto di Studi Superiori in Firenze. Florence: LeMonnier, 1875.
  • Storia dei musulmani di Sicilia. (Florence 1853–73, 3 vols.).
    • New edition 1942: I musulmani in Sicilia / di Michele Amari. A cura di Elio Vittorini. Milano: Bompiani 1942.
  • Su le iscrizioni arabiche del palazzo regio di Messina. Rome: Salviucci, 1881.
  • Biblioteca Arabo-Sicula: versione italiana. Italian version, 2 volumes: Turin 1880.

literature

  • Amari . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 440.
  • Francesco Gabrieli - Rosario Romeo :  AMARI, Michele Benedetto Gaetano. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 2:  Albicante – Ammannati. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
  • Michele Amari commemorative publication: Centenario della nascità di Michele Amari: scritti di filologia e storia araba; di geografia, storia, diritto della Sicilia medievale; studi byzantini e giudaici relativi all'Italia meridionale nel Medio Evo; documenti sulle relazioni fra gli stati italiani ed il Levante . (Contribution in German, French, Italian, Spanish). Palermo: Virzi, 1910. (Reprinted by the Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria, Palermo 1990)

See also

Web links

Commons : Michele Amari  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Academy's membership catalog
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 25.
  3. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Michele Amari. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 27, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Amari, Michele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sicilian orientalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1889
Place of death Florence