Pius Zingerle
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| Pius Zingerle | |
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| Born | 17 March 1801 Merano |
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| Died | January 10, 1881 (aged 79) Marienberg, Merano |
| Residence | Marienberg |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Oriental languages |
| Institutions | Abbey of Marienberg, Sapienza, Vatican Library |
| Alma mater | Innsbruck |
| Known for | Syriac translations |
Pius Zingerle (17 March 1801 - 10 January 1881) was an Italian Orientalist.
[edit] Life
Zingerle was born at Meran (Merano), in the Tyrol (now in Italy). After studying the humanities at Meran, philosophy and two years of theology at Innsbruck, he joined the Benedictines at Marienberg in 1820, took vows, 20 October 1822, and was ordained priest, 4 April 1824. With the exception of six years (1824-7 and 1837-9) during which he was assistant pastor at Platt and at St. Martin, two parishes in the Valley of Passeier, he was professor, since 1852 also director at the gymnasium of Meran. Upon the invitation of Pius IX, he became professor of Oriental languages at the Sapienza in Rome in March, 1862. While in Rome he was also consultor of the Propaganda for Oriental Affairs and scriptor of the Vatican Library.
Unable to accustom himself to the Roman climate, he returned to Marienberg in 1865, where he was made sub-prior and professor of theology. He had a fair knowledge of Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian, was an acknowledged master of Syriac, and gained considerable fame through his German versions of the writings of Saint Ephraem.
Zingerle died at the Abbey of Marienberg near Meran, 10 January, 1881.
[edit] Works
The following are his chief works: "Echte Akten heiliger Martyrer des Morgenlandes" , translated from the Syriac (2 vols., Innsbruck, 1836); "Ausgewählte Schriften des heiliger. Ephräm", translated from the Greek and the Syriac (6 vols., Innsbruck, 1837; new ed., Augsburg, 1845-of which vols. IV and V are German martial versions of Ephraem's Syriac hymns, "Ephräm's Reden wider dir Ketzer", in vol. XXVIII of "Sammtliche Werke der heil. Väter" (Kempten, 1859); "Harfenklänge vom Libanon" (Innsbruck, 1840); "Festkr nze aus Libanon's Garten" (Dillingen, 1846); "Marien-Rosen aus Damaskus" (Innsbruck, 1853; 2nd ed., Augsburg, 1955); "Leben und Wirken des heil. Simeon Stylites" (Innsbruck, 1855); "Monumenta Syriaca ex romanis codd. collecta" (Innsbruck, 1869); "Chrestomathia Syriaca cum indice vocabularum" (Rome, 1871); "Lexicon Syriacum in usum Chrestomathiae" (Rome, 1873); "Ausgewählte Schriften des heil. Ephräm" (3 vols., Kempten 1970-6).
He contributed various essays on the Ephraemic metre and on the Syrian metre in general to "Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft", vols. II-XIX, and other Syrian studies to "Tübinger Theol. Quartalschrift" in the years 1853 and 1870-71. He is also the author of two volumes of German poems (vol. I, Innsbruck, 1843; vol. II, Mainz, 1860) and of a few ascetical and other works of minor importance.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Zingerle, Pius |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Scholar, Syrian specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1801-03-17 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merano |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1881-01-10 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Marienberg, Merano |
