Niccolò Tommaseo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Niccolò Tommaseo

Italian linguist

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1802

Place of Birth: Šibenik, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia

Date of Death: 01-May-1874

Profession: writer, politician, historian, journalist, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Niccolò Tommaseo (Italian: [nikko'l? ttomma'z??o]; 9 October 1802 – 1 May 1874) was an Italian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other works.
He is considered a precursor of the Italian irredentism.