Silvio Giuseppe Mercati

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Silvio Giuseppe Mercati (born September 16, 1877 in Villa Gaida , † October 16, 1963 in Rome ) was an Italian Byzantinist .

Sixth of seven children of the veterinarian Domenico Mercati, Giuseppe graduated from the L. Spallanzani high school in Reggio nell'Emilia . Then he first studied in 1896/1897 at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria in Milan, at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana , where his older brother Giovanni was already working, he discovered his inclination for philology. Years of study at the universities of Naples , Rome and Bologna followed . His tesi di laurea (doctoral thesis) in 1905 was dedicated to the Greek versions of Ephraim Syrus . With a scholarship from the Fondazione Villari , Mercati went to Germany for five semesters in 1907 to hear Wilhelm Meyer in Göttingen and Karl Krumbacher in Munich . In his first publications in the Byzantine magazine in 1908, he added Silvio to his name Giuseppe in order to avoid confusion with his brother Giovanni, who had already published in the BZ, when spelling only with initials. From 1915 he drew his publications with Silvio Giuseppe.

From 1918 to 1924 he was Professor of Byzantine Literature and Modern Greek Language at the Pontificio Istituto Orientale , 1925 Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Catania and from 1926 to 1948 Professor of Byzantine Philology and History at the University of Rome . His library was acquired from the estate of Bruno Lavagnini for the Istituto Siciliano di studi bizantini e neoellenici in Palermo .

His brothers, known as scientists, were Giovanni Mercati (1866–1957), librarian and archivist of the Holy Roman Church, and Angelo Mercati (1870–1955), Prefect of the Vatican Archives from 1925 to 1955.

Publications

  • S. Ephraem Syri opera , textum Syriacum, Graecum, Latinum ad fidem codicum recensuit prolegominis, notis, indicibus instruxit Sylvius Joseph Mercati, Rome 1915- [1]
  • Collectanea byzantina , 2 vols., Bari 1970

Festschriften and literature

  • Silloge bizantina in onore di Silvio Giuseppe Mercati , Studi bizantini e neoellenici 9. Rome 1957
  • In Memoria di Silvio G. Mercati . Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici NS 1. Rome 1964
  • Paolo Vian:  Mercati, Giuseppe (Silvio Giuseppe). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 73:  Meda-Messadaglia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1924 she was part of the reform of the Minister Gentile Giovanni in the State University of Milan converted
personal data
SURNAME Mercati, Silvio Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mercati, Giuseppe (maiden name); Mercati, Giuseppe Silvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Villa Gaida
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1963
Place of death Rome