Ignazio Guidi

Ignazio Guidi (1844 18 April 1935) was an Italian orientalist. He became Professor at the University of Rome. He is known as a Hebraist and for many translations.

He learned semitic languages from Pius Zingerle and Father Vincenti, and taught himself Ge'ez.[1]

He discovered the Khuzistan Chronicle,[2] and edited the Chronicle of Edessa.

He also edited for the first time a letter of Simeon of Beth Arhsham about the martyrs of Najran, the oldest evidence for this historical event.

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  1. http://www.sissco.it//index.php?id=597, in Italian.
  2. http://www.quicklatin.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Khuzistan_Chronicle
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