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GRAZIADIO ISAIA ASCOLI (1829–1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 723 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAZIADIO ISAIA

ASCOLI (1829–1907)  ,
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Italian philologist; of Jewish
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family, was born at Gorz, and at an early age showed a marked linguistic talent . In 18J4 he published his Studii orientali e linguistici, and in 186o was appointed professor of
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philology at Milan . He made various learned contributions to the study of Indo-
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European and Semitic
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languages, and also of the gipsy language, but his
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special field was the Italian dialects . He founded the Archivio glottologico italiano in 1873,
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publishing in it his Saggi Ladini, and making it in succeeding years the
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great
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organ of
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original scholarship on this subject . He was universally recognized as the greatest authority on Italian linguistics, and his article in the
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed., revised for this edition) became the classic exposition in
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English .

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