Levi Della Vida, George - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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“Italian Syriac scholar. An outstanding Semitic scholar, he devoted to Syriac literature only a lesser part of his activity, mainly at the beginning of his career (1910–21) and again later, after having been deprived of his chair at the University of Rome because of his opposiiton to fascism, when he was employed as a consultant for Oriental mss. at the Vatican Library (1931–39), under the patronage of its learned Prefetto, the future Cardinal Eugène Tisserant.” 1
Names
- Levi Della Vida, George
- Levi Della Vida, Giorgio1
Birth
18861
Death
19671
Notes
“Italian Syriac scholar. An outstanding Semitic scholar, he devoted to Syriac literature only a lesser part of his activity, mainly at the beginning of his career (1910–21) and again later, after having been deprived of his chair at the University of Rome because of his opposiiton to fascism, when he was employed as a consultant for Oriental mss. at the Vatican Library (1931–39), under the patronage of its learned Prefetto, the future Cardinal Eugène Tisserant.” 1
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- 1 R. Contini, "Levi Della Vida, Giorgio." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 248, 248.
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