Giuseppe Furlani

Giuseppe Furlani (10 November 188517 December 1962) was an Italian archaeologist, orientalist, philologist, and historian of religions, and the founder of Italian Assyriology and Hittite studies.

Biography Giuseppe Furlani was born on 10 November 1885 in Pula in Croatia, at the time in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Works Furlani's complete bibliography, excluding encyclopedic entries, numbers 610 titles covering a wide range of disciplines and areas of research. His areas of expertise included the study of Greek philosophy on ancient Syriac theology and the Syriac tradition of Aristotelian term logic. Furlani wrote papers on the theology of Yaqub of Edessa, Bardaiṣan, Sergius of Reshaina, Giwargi bishop of the Arbela among other Syriac writers. He published the most important findings of his Syriac philosophy studies in I miei lavori dal 1928 al 1940 sulla filosofia greca presso i Siri [My works from 1928 to 1940 on Greek philosophy of the Syriacs].

Between 1948 and 1957, Furlani focused his works on Mandean lexicography, literature, and religion. In 1959 he co-authored a paper about the illuminated Rabbula Gospels which was his last Syriac-related work. Furlani's contributions to the history of religions cover the religion of the Canaanites, Hittites, Sumerians, Elamites, Babylonians-Assyrians, Urartu the Horites, Phoenicians, and Arameans.

Notable works La Religione babilonese e assira [The Babylonian and Assyrian religion], 1928-1929 Il Sacrificio nella Religione dei semiti di Babilonia e Assiria [Sacrifice in the religion of the Semites of Babylon and Assyria], 1932 La Religione degli Hittiti [The religion of the Hittites], 1936 Grammatica babilonese e assira [Babylonian and Assyrian grammar], 1941