Tullio De Mauro

Tullio De Mauro (2007) at the Trento Film Festival

Tullio De Mauro (born March 31, 1932 in Torre Annunziata ; † January 5, 2017 in Rome ) was an Italian linguist , lexicographer , translator and non-party politician . In the Amato II cabinet he held the post of Italian Minister of Education.

Life

Tullio de Mauro attended school in Rome and studied at the La Sapienza University there , where he was a student of Antonino Pagliaro . In 1963 he published his first book Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita , and in 1967 he published his Italian translation of Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale .

In 1975 De Mauro was elected to the Lazio Regional Council. From April 25, 2000 to June 11, 2001, he was Minister of Education under Giuliano Amato . He taught at the humanities faculty of the University of Rome and was a member of the Accademia della Crusca and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and, since 1989, of the Academia Europaea .

De Mauro died at the age of 84.

His older brother was the journalist Mauro De Mauro , who was murdered by members of the Mafia in 1970 for his reporting .

Awards

2010: Honorary doctorate from the University of Paris III
2009: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest
2008: Honorary doctorate from Waseda University
June 1, 2007: Medaglia ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte
2005: Honorary doctorate from the École normal supérieure de Lyon
June 11, 2001: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

1999: Honorary doctorate from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

May 2, 1996: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Works (selection)

Storia linguistica d'Italia unita. 1963
Ludwig Wittgenstein: His Place in the Development of Semantics . Reidel, Dordrecht 1967, ISBN 90-277-0029-X .
Introduction to semantics. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-484-22027-9 .

Web links

Commons : Tullio De Mauro - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

official homepage
Obituary Tullio de Mauro. Linguistic research in the service of society , by Norbert Dittmar , PhiN 79, 2017, p. 181f.

Individual evidence

^ Governo Amato-II . Italian Senate , accessed January 5, 2017
^ Since 2003 as a corresponding member, since 2009 as a full member: Entry in the membership directory
^ Tullio De Mauro, morto a 84 anni il linguista ex ministro dell'Istruzione . Il Fatto Quotidiano , January 5, 2017, accessed January 5, 2017 (Italian).

personal data
SURNAME	De Mauro, Tullio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	de Mauro, Tullio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian linguist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Torre Annunziata
DATE OF DEATH	5th January 2017
Place of death	Rome

[1] Governo Amato-II . Italian Senate , accessed January 5, 2017

[2] Since 2003 as a corresponding member, since 2009 as a full member: Entry in the membership directory

[3] Tullio De Mauro, morto a 84 anni il linguista ex ministro dell'Istruzione . Il Fatto Quotidiano , January 5, 2017, accessed January 5, 2017 (Italian).