François Philippe Sarchi originally Samuel Morpurgo, born in Gradisca d'Isonzo in Italy 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.

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  • 1795: (in German) Theoretisch-praktische italienische Sprachlehre, Vienna; reprint in 1805.
  • 1795: (in Italian) Grammatica italiana, Vienne, Schmidt, 1795 ; 3rd reprint 1805.
  • 1797: (in Italian) Ape poetica o il fior da fiore delle migliorie poesie italiane, Vienna.
  • 1811: (in Italian) Elementi di Geografia moderna per uso di giovinette in versi rimati, Udine.
  • 1817: An almanac, sundries, in the Israélite français (2 volumes, Paris), in La Minerve littéraire and in various newspapers and magazines.
  • 1823: Cours de thèmes italiens, Paris, Th. Barrois et Jombert, (reprit Paris, 1823).
  • 1824: (in English) An Essay on Hebrew Poetry ancient and modern, Londpn online ; several repr. ; last edition: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009 ISBN 1-104-67531-5, 9781104675318.
  • 1827: Grammaire hébraïque raisonnée et comparée, 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 Read online ; Paris, Pélicier et Chatet, 1828, 1830 ... 1844.

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