Giuseppe Luigi Assemani

Giuseppe Luigi Assemani (Joseph Aloysius Assemanus ) (* 1710 in Tripoli ( Lebanon); † February 9, 1782 in Rome) was a Catholic priest, orientalist and the liturgists in Rome.

Giuseppe Luigi was a nephew of Giuseppe Simone Orientalists Assemani and comes as his whole family of the Maronite Church. He was a seminarian at the Pontifical Maronite College, after his ordination he worked in Rome as an interpreter at the papal curia, a professor of Syriac language at the Collegium Sapientiae and liturgical history at the Pontificia Academia Theologica. His main work, the Codex liturgicus Ecclesiae Universae, until today, when unersetzt in parts, often used. Of the 15 planned volumes, only the volumes I -IV and VIII were completed.

Works (selection)

  • Codex liturgicus Ecclesiae Universae in XV libros distributus in quo libri continentur rituales, missal, Pontic ficales, officia, dypticha, etc., ecclesiarum Occidentis, et Orientis. Romae 1749-1766 (reprint: Gregg, Farnborough in 1968/69 in 13 vol )
  • Commentarius theologico - canonico - criticus de ecclesiis earum reverentia, et Asylo atque concordia sacerdotii et imperii. Monaldius, Rome in 1766.
  • De catholicis seu patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum commentarius historico - Chronologicus. Gregg International, Farnborough, 1969 ( Nachdr Rome 1775).
  • De synodo dioecesana dissertations. Rome 1776.
  • Christian Orient
  • Orientalist
  • Lebanese
  • Born in the 18th century
  • Died in 1782
  • Man
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