Giuseppe Simone Assemani

Giuseppe Simone Assemani (* 1687 in Tripoli ( Lebanon); † January 14, 1768 in Rome), sometimes also written Asseman, was an orientalist.

From Maronitenfamilie Assemani coming, he was a seminarian at the Pontifical Maronite College and studied in Rome. He then took the papal mandate traveling through Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, where he collected numerous oriental manuscripts, coins, etc. for the Vatican Library. After the end of his travels, he was curator of the Vatican Library and Titular Archbishop of Tyre.

Main work

  • Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino - Vaticana / Josephus Simonius Assemanus. Rome 1719-1728, 4 volumes. ( Contains the Syrian manuscripts of that library). Reprint: Hildesheim, New York: Olms undated Avec une postface par Joseph -Marie Sauget (from 1975 ).
  • ( Oriental Library or messages from Syrian writers ) Joseph Simonius Aces 's Oriental Library or messages from Syrian writers / placed in a Ausz from August Friederich Pfeiffer. German edition of August Friedrich Pfeiffer, Erlangen, 1770-1777, 2 vols.
  • Reprint: Scientia Verlag Aalen, nd (ca. 1969)
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