Graziadio Isaia Ascoli [SEP] date of death
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli (; 16 July 1829 – 21 January 1907) was an Italian linguist.
Life and work.
Ascoli was born in an Italian-speaking Jewish family in the multiethnic town of Gorizia, then part of the Austrian Empire (now in Italy). Already as a boy, he learned some of the other languages traditionally spoken in the town, German, Friulian, Slovene and Venetian.
An autodidact, he published his first important work on the languages of the orient in 1854
, indoeuropäischen und semitischen Etymologie I." Leipzig.
- Abel, Carl. 1896. "Ägyptisch und indogermanisch." Frankfurt.
- Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia. 1864a. "Del nesso ario-semitico. Lettera al professore Adalberto Kuhn di Berlino." "Il Politecnico" 21:190–216.
- Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia. 1864b. "Del nesso ario-semitico. Lettera seconda al professore Francesco Bopp." "Il Politecnico" 22:121–151.
- Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia. 1867. "Studj ario-semitici