Sabatino Moscati

Sabatino Moscati (* November 24, 1922 in Rome, † September 8, 1997 ) was an Italian linguist and archaeologist who has rendered outstanding services primarily to the study of the Phoenician- Punic language, culture and archeology.

Life

Sabatino Moscati doctorate in 1943 at the age of 21 years, with a thesis on the spoken Arabic in medieval Spain. It was in 1954 at the age of only 32 years professor of Semitic linguistics and philology at the University La Sapienza in Rome. Here he developed in a short time become a significant scientific organizers of his science who understood this holistic primarily as a cultural science. At his instigation, and for him by his faculty, the Institute for the Study of the Middle East was created after only a short time. Only a little later by the Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche the imputed Institute for the Study of the Phoenician and Punic culture. At the first congress for the research on Phoenician and Punic culture in 1979 Moscati gave the opening speech. At that time there were already five Italian universities courses of the new subject of the Phoenician studies. Moscati must be regarded as one of the founders of the discipline.

Moscati was not only scientific organizer and representative of his science, he also served as a mediator between science and the wider public. He began his career as a linguist, turned in the course of his career, however, more and more archaeological remains, Near Eastern archeology, to, without neglecting the written sources ever. His oeuvre includes more than 570 titles, including more than 80 monographs, for which he was responsible, alone or in co- authorship. In 1985 he founded the Italian glossy magazine Archeo be made available in the archaeological by expert authors with the use of high quality pictures findings to a wide audience. In 1988, he organized a large and successful exhibition on the Phoenicians at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.

The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome honors Moscati by the award of the Premio Moscati for studies of the civilizations of the Mediterranean.

Writings

  • History and culture of the Semitic peoples, An Introduction, carbon hammer, Stuttgart 1953 ( Urban Books 3 )
  • The ancient Semitic cultures, carbon hammer, Stuttgart, 1961 ( Urban Books 3 )
  • The cultures of the ancient Near East. Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Hittites, Hurrians, Canaanites, Syrians, Israel, Persia, Piper, Munich 1962
  • An Introduction to the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages ​​. Phonology and morphology, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1964 ( Porta linguarum Orientalium, NS 6)
  • The Phoenicians. From 1200 BC to the fall of Carthage, Kindler, Zurich 1966 ( Kindler's cultural history)
  • Unknown Italy. An archaeological and tourist escort to the recent discoveries from the history and Greek, Carthaginian, Etruscan, Italic, Roman, Jewish and Christian art and culture, Hieronimi, Bonn 1974 ISBN 3-8013-0204-0
  • Archeology. Science full of secrets, Austrian Federal publisher / writer, Vienna / Esslingen 1975 ( knowledge of the world ) ISBN 3-215-01785-7 ISBN 3-480-12537-9 and
  • The Phoenicians. The development of Phoenician art from its beginnings to the end of the third Punic War ( with André Parrot and H. Maurice Chehab ), Beck, Munich 1977 ( World of Art, Vol 23) ISBN 3-406-03023-8
  • How do I know Mesopotamian art?, Belser, Stuttgart / Zurich 1979 ISBN 3-7630-1769-0
  • The Carthaginians, Belser, Stuttgart / Zurich 1984 ( Peoples and Cultures ) ISBN 3-7630-1731-3
  • The Phoenicians (ed.), Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1988 ISBN 3-455-08324-2
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