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ASCOLI, GRAZIADIO ISAIA (1829–1907)

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ASCOLI, GRAZIADIO ISAIA (1829–1907)

ASCOLI, GRAZIADIO ISAIA (1829–1907) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian philologist; of Jewish See also:

FAMILY

family, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

GORZ (Ital. Gorizia ; Slovene, Gorica)

Gorz, and at an See also:

early See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age showed a marked linguistic See also:

TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent. In 18J4 he published his Studii orientali e linguistici, and in 186o was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

PHILOLOGY

philology at See also:

Milan. He made various learned contributions to the study of Indo-See also:

EUROPEAN

European and Semitic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages, and also of the gipsy See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, but his See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

field was the Italian dialects. He founded the Archivio glottologico italiano in 1873, See also:

PUBLISHING

publishing in it his Saggi Ladini, and making it in succeeding years the See also:

GREAT

great See also:

ORGAN

organ of See also:

ORIGINAL

original scholarship on this subject. He was universally recognized as the greatest authority on Italian linguistics, and his See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in the See also:

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed., revised for this edition) became the classic exposition in See also:

ENGLISH

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