Christian archaeologist , born Rome, Italy , 1822 ; died Castel Gandolfo , 1894 . Graduated in law at the Sapienza, he was appointed a scriptor at the Vatican Library. From childhood he had shown interest in antiquities, and in 1841 he began the study of archaeology under the Jesuit, Marchi. As a result of his explorations and researches De Rossi became a famous authority on epigraphy and Roman topography, and stirred up a world-wide interest in Christian antiquities. In addition to more than two hundred archaeological and historical monographs he wrote several comprehensive works on the catacombs , and early Christian Roman inscriptions, the most important being “La Roma sotterranea cristiana”. Elevated Christian archaeology to the dignity of a science. He was commissioned by Pope Pius IX to systematically investigate the catacombs on scientific principles; his immense learning and careful observations were shown by his voluminous literary output. His Roma Sotterranea Cristiana (Rome, 1864 ) is almost indispensable to the student of Christian archaeology, as is his periodical Bulletino d’archeologia cristiana, a publication begun in 1863 and ended in 1894 . <\/p>\n
Giovanni de Rossi Christian archaeologist , born Rome, Italy , 1822 ; died Castel Gandolfo , 1894 . Graduated in law at the Sapienza, he was appointed a scriptor at the Vatican Library. From childhood he had shown interest in antiquities, and in 1841 he began the study of archaeology under the Jesuit, Marchi. As … Continue reading “Giovanni de Rossi”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}