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 Arsham about the martyrs of Najran, the oldest evidence for this historical event.
He was the student of the Ethiopian scholar Däbtära Keflä-Giorgis, who played a "crucial role as teacher of the person who could be described as the father of Ethiopian studies in Italy, Ignazio Guidi."[3]
- ^ http://www.sissco.it//index.php?id=597, in Italian.
- ^ http://www.quicklatin.comview_html.php?sq=Qlik&lang=&q=index.php?title=The_Khuzistan_Chronicle[permanent dead link]
- ^ Zewde., Bahru (2002). Pioneers of change in Ethiopia : the reformist intellectuals of the early twentieth century. Oxford: J. Currey. ISBN 0821414461. OCLC 50004835.