Giovanni Luzzi (1856-1948), scholar
Giovanni Luzzi (1856-1948) was an Swiss Italian scholar.
Biography
Biblical scholar. Giovanni Luzzi was born at Tschlin (Switzerland), but grew up at Lucca, Italy. In Florence, attended the Waldensian Faculty of Theology and learned Hebrew with David Castelli. After some years of study at Edinburgh, Scotland, went back to Florence, where in 1902 became Professor at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology and began his monumental work of translating the Bile from the original texts. Luzzi befriended the leaders of the modernist Catholic movement, Ernesto Buonaiuti, Brizio Casciola, Romolo Murri, Giovanni Semeria, Umberto Fracassini, and others. He also maintained close relationship with international scholars and in 1911-12 visited the United Studies, lecturing at Princeton, Harvard, New York and Washington. When the Waldensian Faculty moved to Rome in 1920, after only a couple of year preferred to serve as a pastor at Poschiavo, Scwitzerland. In 1930 went back to Florence and again to Poschiavo during the World War II, where he eventually died in 1948.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Fatti degli apostoli (1899 Luzzi), book
- Le epistole di S. Paolo: seconda parte (1908 Bosio/Luzzi), book