Family Name: Salom
First Name: Michiel
Birth Date: Tue, Apr 20, 1751
Birth Place: Padova
Death Date: Sun, Apr 30, 1837
Death Place: Padova
Main places of activity:
Place From To
Padua 1750 1775
Place From To
Berlin 1775 1777
Place From To
Klis Fortress (Dalmatia) 1792 1795
Personal info:
Education

In 1771 he graduated in Medicine in Padua, the only faculty that at the time admitted Jews. He was a doctor for nearly 20 years.
Career

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During his stay in Berlin, as guest of the Jewish banker Daniel Itzing, who also was the head of the local j`ewish community, he had his first contact with Freemasonry.

Because of his support for the ideas of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the Republic of Venice put ihm on trial. In 1793 he was arrested and condemned to spend three years in Fortress of Klis (Dalmatia).

Back in Italy he worked on several translations.
Translations

translations activities

He translated from German, that he learnt during his stay in Berlin. At the house of Daniel Itzig, he had the chance to become familiar with  literature in German and with thinkers and philosophers such as David Friedländer and Moses Mendelssohn.

He mostly translated from German into Italian (Goethe, Lessing, Wieland, Iffland and Kotzbue), but also from other languages, such as Latin (Ovid). Between 1802 and 1811 his translation activity was very intense.

secondary bibliography references

Berengo Marino, La società veneta alla fine del Settecento, Firenze, Sansoni 1956

 Crepaldi Debora, Michele Salom – Michelangelo Arcontini. A proposito del primo traduttore del Werther, tesi di laurea, Università di Padova 2008

Fancelli Maria, 'Michele Salom a Berlino: una lettera inedita a Ch. M. Wieland', in Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate, a. XXXIV, 1981, pp. 92-103

Salah Asher, La République des Lettres. Rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIme siècle, Leiden, Brill, 2007

Toffanin Giuseppe, 'Goethe, Padova e la prima traduzione del Werther', Atti e Memorie dell’Accademia patavina di Scienze, lettere ed arti, a. XCVIII, n. 3, 1985-1986, pp. 181-195



Translations

  • Die Leiden des jungen Werther

  • Translation Title: Verter, opera originale tedesca del celebre signor Goethe, trasportata in italiano dal D.M.S., traduzione di [Abraham] Michelangelo Salom (poi col nome Michelangelo Arcontini)
  • Original Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
  • Original title: Die Leiden des jungen Werther
  • Publ. Year From: 1773 to:
  • lang: German
  • Note:
  • Translation: Verter, opera originale tedesca del celebre signor Goethe, trasportata in italiano dal D.M.S., traduzione di [Abraham] Michelangelo Salom (poi col nome Michelangelo Arcontini)
  • Publisher: Giuseppe Rosa
  • Pub. Place: Venice
  • Pub. Date: 1787
  • Lang: Italian
  • Note:

    He translated the novel in 1782. He asked Melchiorre Cesarotti for help to translate a pome from the Ossianic poems. 

  • Geschichte des Agathon

  • Translation Title: Istoria di Agatone opera del sig. Wieland trasportata dal tedesco nell'idioma italiana da M.A.
  • Original Author: Wieland, Cristoph Martin
  • Original title: Geschichte des Agathon
  • Publ. Year From: 1765 to: 1766
  • lang: German
  • Note:
  • Translation: Istoria di Agatone opera del sig. Wieland trasportata dal tedesco nell'idioma italiana da M.A.
  • Publisher: Tipografia Dipartimentale
  • Pub. Place: Brescia
  • Pub. Date: 1801
  • Lang: Italian

  • Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen. Briefroman

  • Translation Title: Aristippo ed alcuni suoi contemporanei, recato dal tedesco in italiano da Michelangelo Arcontini
  • Original Author: Wieland, Christoph Martin
  • Original title: Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen. Briefroman
  • Publ. Year From: 1799 to: 1801
  • lang: German
  • Translation: Aristippo ed alcuni suoi contemporanei, recato dal tedesco in italiano da Michelangelo Arcontini
  • Publisher: Nicolò Bettoni
  • Pub. Place: Padova
  • Pub. Date: 1808
  • Lang: Italian

  • Der Spieler. Ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen

  • Translation Title: Il giuocatore
  • Original Author: Iffland, August Wilhelm
  • Original title: Der Spieler. Ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen
  • Publ. Year From: 1795 to:
  • lang: German
  • Translation: Il giuocatore
  • Publisher: Antonio Rosa
  • Pub. Place: Venice
  • Pub. Date: 1804
  • Lang: Italian

  • Der Mann von Wort

  • Translation Title: L’uomo di parola
  • Original Author: Iffland, August Wilhelm
  • Original title: Der Mann von Wort
  • Publ. Year From: 1801 to:
  • lang: German
  • Translation: L’uomo di parola
  • Pub. Place: Venezia
  • Pub. Date: 1805

  • Der Komet. Posse in einem Aufzug

  • Translation Title: La cometa
  • Original Author: Iffland, August Wilhelm
  • Original title: Der Komet. Posse in einem Aufzug
  • Publ. Year From: 1798 to:
  • Translation: La cometa
  • Publisher: Antonio Rosa
  • Pub. Place: Venice
  • Pub. Date: 1806
  • Lang: Italian

  • Ueber den ansteckenden Typhus, nebst einigen Winken zur Beschränkung oder gänzlichen Tilgung der Kriegspest und mehrerer anderer Menschenseuchen

  • Translation Title: Del tifo contagioso con alcuni cenni intorno a’ mezzi di arrestare la pestilenza originata dalla guerra ed altre umane contagioni
  • Original Author: Hildebrand, Johann Valentin von
  • Original title: Ueber den ansteckenden Typhus, nebst einigen Winken zur Beschränkung oder gänzlichen Tilgung der Kriegspest und mehrerer anderer Menschenseuchen
  • Publ. Year From: 1809 to:
  • lang: German
  • Translation: Del tifo contagioso con alcuni cenni intorno a’ mezzi di arrestare la pestilenza originata dalla guerra ed altre umane contagioni
  • Publisher: Stamperia del Seminario
  • Pub. Place: Padova
  • Pub. Date: 1815
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