ADRIANO V. ROSSI (b. Roma 1947)

Studied history and civilization of ancient and modern Near East at University of Rome (Faculty of Arts), under the guidance of A. Bausani, A, Pagliaro, G. R. Cardona, S. Moscati, G. Castellino, M. Liverani, G. Garbini, S. Mazzarino, G. Pugliese Carratelli.
Since 1980 (full) professor of Iranian linguistics, later Iranian philology, at L’Orientale University, Naples; 1984 appointed Director, Center for Asian Lexicography, Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente; mid-eigthies appointed Director, National research Ethnolinguistics of Iranian area; Director, International Project for Balochi lexicography; Editor-in-Chief, Newsletter of Baluchistan studies, now Balochistan Studies. Main research subjects (with more than 150 publications) are historical and descriptive linguistics (Old Persian [with specialization on Elamite interference on it], Parthian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, Kurdish, Balochi, Fârsi, Urdu, Indo-European), socio- and ethnolinguistics (general and applied to Indo-Iranian languages), Balochi and Brahui lexicography; political history of the Indian subcontinent and East Asia; history of Oriental studies in Italy and Europe.
Since 2002 Project leader of DARIOSH [=Digital Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions Open Schema], an International Project for the digital edition of the three versions of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions in joint venture with the Iranian Heritage Authority (ICHTO).
He was Director of Asian Studies Dept. (1987-88), Vice-Chancellor (1988-1989), Dean of the Faculty of Arts (1990-92), Chancellor (1992-98) at L’Orientale University, and Italian Governor at ASEF (Asia-Europe Foundation, Singapore) 1997-2004.
He is member of several scientific academies and institutions, among which Accademia dei Lincei, IPO, SLI, SIG, SGM, SIE, SAEI (Paris) and SIOS (London); honorary member Balochi Academy (Quetta, Pakistan); scientific director of ISMEO — Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente, Roma.
He is member of the scientific and honorary committees of many international editorial boards for Iranology and Human Sciences; among which: Scritture di storia, ESI, Napoli; Mezzogiorno e Europa, Napoli; Nartamongæ. The Journal of Alano-Ossetic studies: Epic, Mythology and language, Vladikavkaz - Paris; Acta Iranica, Leuven; Ancient Iranian Studies Series, Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, Tehran; Balochistan Review, Quetta; Middle Persian Dictionary Project, Jerusalem; Series Orientale Roma, n.s., ISMEO, Roma.

General and descriptive linguistics, Historical linguistics (Old Persian, Parhian, Pahlavi, Sogdian, Kurdish, Balochi, Fârsi, Urdu, Brahui), epigraphy, socio- and ethnolinguistics (general and applied to Indo-Iranian), Balochi and Brahui lexicology, History of Oriental studies; History of ancient Iran, Contemporary history of Iran and Pakistan

Prof., L'Orientale University