Philippe Sarchi


François Philippe Sarchi originally Samuel Morpurgo, born in Gradisca d'Isonzo, Habsburg monarchy, Holy Roman Empire in 1764 and died in Paris in 1830, was a lawyer, linguist, philologist of Illyrian origin, specializing in Italian and Hebrew.
After a legal and linguistic training, he became a professor at the University of Vienna; he wrote various books on language, grammar and Italian poetry. He was a notary in Trieste, then linguist and translator in Paris and London.
He then devoted himself to the study of literature and Hebrew philology. His main work on the subject is a book on Hebrew poetry and a Hebrew grammar.

Works


  • 1795: Theoretisch-praktische italienische Sprachlehre, Vienna; reprint in 1805.
  • 1795: Grammatica italiana, Vienne, Schmidt, 1795 ; 3rd reprint 1805.
  • 1797: Ape poetica o il fior da fiore delle migliorie poesie italiane, Vienna.
  • 1811: Elementi di Geografia moderna per uso di giovinette in versi rimati, Udine.
  • 1817: An almanac, sundries, in the Israélite français, in La Minerve littéraire and in various newspapers and magazines.
  • 1823: Cours de thèmes italiens, Paris, Th. Barrois et Jombert,.
  • 1824: An Essay on Hebrew Poetry ancient and modern, London ; several repr. ; last edition: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009.
  • 1827:, Paris, Dondey-Dupré; several editions, alternately under the same name or under the name Nouvelle grammaire hébraïque raisonnée et comparée, Paris, Dondey-Dupré, 1827 and 1828 ; Paris, Pélicier et Chatet, 1828, 1830... 1844.