Gaspare Gorresio

Gaspare Gorresio ( born December 17, 1808 in Bagnasco, † March 20, 1891 in Turin ) was an Italian Sanskritist.

Gasparre Gorresio studied at the University of Turin, then devoted himself for two years in Germany philological and philosophical studies and in 1832 hired as a professor at the military school in Turin, where he participated in the scholarly journal Il Subalpino with numerous essays.

Sent in 1838 by the Piedmontese government behufs Indian studies to Paris and London, he held after his return in 1852 to four years the chair of Sanskrit in Turin, the first, which was founded in Italy.

The main task, he sat down the completion of the already begun a decade earlier publication and translation of the Ramayana epic, which appeared in ten volumes Ramayana, poema indiano di Valmichi ( 1843-58 ).

1862 took over Gorresio the place of a librarian at the National Library in Turin; also he was appointed resistant secretary of the Academy of Sciences in Turin and 1876 foreign member of the Paris Academy of Inscriptions.

Works (selection)

• Ramayana. Indian Heritage Trust, Madras, 1982 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1843/67 )

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• Indologist
• Indo-Europeanist
• Italian
• Born in 1808
• Died in 1891
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