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CelebratedOrientalist, born at Meran, in the Tyrol, 17 March, 1801; died at the Abbey of Marienberg near Meran, 10 January, 1881. After studying the Humanities at Meran, philosophy and two years oftheology atInnsbruck, he joined theBenedictines atMarienberg in 1820, tookvows, 20 October, 1822, and wasordainedpriest, 4 April, 1824. With the exception of six years (1824-7 abd 1837-9) during which he was assistantpastor at Platt and at St. Martin, twoparishes in the Valley of Passeier, he was professor, since 1852 also director at the gymnasium of Meran. Upon the invitation ofPius IX, he became professor of Oriental languages at the Sapienza inRome in March, 1862. While inRome he was also consultor of thePropaganda for Oriental Affairs and scriptor of the Vatican Library.
Unable to accustom himself to the Roman climate, he returned to Marienberg in 1865, where he was made sub-prior and professor oftheology. He had a fairknowledge of Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian, was an acknowledged master of Syriac, and gained considerable fame through his German versions of the writings ofSt. Ephraem. The following are his chief works: "Echte Akten heiliger Martyrer des Morgenlandes", translated from the Syriac (2 vols., Innsbruck, 1836); "Ausgew älte Schriften des heiliger. Ephräm", translated from the Greek and the Syriac (6 vols., Innsbruck, 1837; new ed., Augsburg, 1845-of which vols. IV and V are German martial versions of Ephraem's Syriachymns, "Ephräm's Reden wider dir Ketzer", in vol. XXVIII of "Sammtliche Werke der heil. Väter" (Kempten, 1859); "Harfenklänge vom Libanon" (Innsbruck, 1840); "Festkränze aus Libanon's Garten" (Dillingen, 1846); "Marien-Rosen aus Damaskus" (Innsbruck, 1853; 2nd ed., Augsburg, 1955); "Leben und Wirken des heil. Simeon Stylites" (Innsbruck, 1855); "Monumenta Syriaca ex romanis codd. collecta" (Innsbruck, 1869); "Chrestomathia Syriaca cum indice vocabularum" (Rome, 1871); "Lexicon Syriacum in usum Chrestomathiae" (Rome, 1873); "Ausgewählte Schriften des heil. Ephräm" (3 vols., Kempten 1970-6). He contributed various essays on the Ephraemic metre and on the Syrian metre in general to "Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft", vols. II-XIX, and other Syrian studies to "Tübinger Theol. Quartalschrift" in the years 1853 and 1870-71. He is also the author of two volumes of German poems (vol. I, Innsbruck, 1843; vol. II, Mainz, 1860) and of a few ascetical and other works of minor importance.
Scriptores Ord. S. Ben. qui 1750-1880 fuerunt in Imperio Austriaco-Hungarico (Vienna, 1881), 531-1; STAMPFER inStudien une Miteillungen aus dem Ben. und Cist. Orden, II (Würzburg, 1881), I, 355-360; SIEGFRIED inAllg. Deutsche Biographie, XLV (Leizig, 1900), 320-3; WÜRZBACH,Biogr. Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, LX (Vienna, 1891), 151-4.
APA citation.Ott, M.(1912).Pius Zingerle. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15760b.htm
MLA citation.Ott, Michael."Pius Zingerle."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 15.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1912.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15760b.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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