Luigi Chiarini (abbot)
Luigi Chiarini was an Italian abbot and translator, born near Montepulciano (Italy), April 26, 1789, died February 28, 1832 in Warsaw (Poland), known for the first translation of the Talmud (Talmud of Babylon and Talmud of Jerusalem) in French.
Biography[]
He was Professor of Oriental Languages and Antiquities at the Royal University of Warsaw in 1826. He was the author of "Theory of Judaism, applied to the reform of the Israelites of all the countries of Europe and at the same time serving as a preparatory work for the version of the Thalmud of Babylon" (1830).[1] His translation of the Talmud benefited from a grant from Tsar Nicholas I (Emperor of Russia).[2] He is the Hebrew teacher of Albert Kazimirski of Biberstein.[3] His portrait by Tebaldo Fumi can be found in the Museo Civico di Montepulciano.
Works[]
- Fragment d'astronomie chaldéenne découvert dans le prophète Ezéchiel et éclairci par l'abbé C. Chiarini / Louis-A. Chiarini / Leipsig : J. A. G. Weigel, 1831
- Observations sur un article de la "Revue encyclopédique", dans lequel on examine le projet de traduire le Talmud de Babylone... / par l'abbé L. Chiarini... / Paris : impr. de F. Didot, 1829
- Théorie du Judaïsme, appliquée à la réforme des Israélites de tous les pays de l'Europe, et servant en même temps d'ouvrage préparatoire à la version du Thalmud de Babylone / par l'Abbé L. A. Chiarini / Paris : J. Barbezat, 1830
- Le Talmud de Babylone traduit en langue française et complété par celui de Jérusalem et par d'autres monumens de l'antiquité judai͏̈que [Texte imprimé] / par l'abbé L. Chiarini / Leipzig : J.A.G. Weigel, 1831
Bibliography[]
(in) Roman Marcinkowski, " Luigi Chiarini (1789-1832): An Anti-Judaism Reformer of Judaism " , Studia Judaica, vol. 7, No. 2, 2004, p. 237-248 . Arnold Sages, " Luigi Chiarini: Case Study in Intellectual Anti-Semitism, " Judaica, vol. 37, No. 2, nineteen eighty one, p. 76-89 .
References[]
- ^ https://www.idref.fr/111495830
- ^ https://books.google.ch/books?id=LXQ3PMuVYy0C&pg=PA399&lpg=PA399&dq=abb%C3%A9+l.+chiarini&source=bl&ots=BVxB_jKSya&sig=ACfU3U3L19g_DbF18pJEe5DeWyvu7iy3XA&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil7PboiYrkAhWCepoKHZeHCqYQ6AEwDXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=abb%C3%A9%20l.%20chiarini&f=false Journal asiatique, p. 399
- ^ Le Coran – Traduction par Albert Kazimirski (1844), www.lenoblecoran.fr (consulté le 13 juin 2018)
- Italian abbots
- Talmud translators
- 1789 births
- 1832 deaths
- 19th-century translators