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Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or GRAZIADIO ISAIA ASCOLI (1829-1907), Italian philologist; of Jewish family, was born at Geirz, and at an early age showed a marked linguistic talent. In 18J4 he published his Studii orientali e linguistici, and in 1860 was appointed professor of philology at Milan. He made various learned contributions to the study of Indo-European and Semitic languages, and also of the gipsy language, but his special field was the Italian dialects. He founded the Archivio glottologico italiano in 1873, publishing in it his Saggi Ladini, and making it in succeeding years the great organ of original scholarship on this subject. He was universally recognized as the greatest authority on Italian linguistics, and his article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed., revised for this edition) became the classic exposition in English. (See ITALY: Language.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Graziadio Isaia Ascoli'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/graziadio-isaia-ascoli.html. 1910.
