Matteo Bartoli

Matteo Giulio Bartoli (22 November 1873 – 23 January 1946) was an Italian linguist from Istria. He obtained a doctorate at the University of Vienna. He was influenced by certain theories of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce and the German linguist Karl Vossler. He later also studied with Jules Gilliéron in Paris. From Gilliéron he acquired a penchant for fieldwork, and from 1900 on, he published numerous dialectological studies of Istrian dialects.

In 1907, he became professor of the comparative history of classical and neo-Latin languages in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Turin, where he served until his death.

Among his most important works are is his study on the Dalmatian language, Das Dalmatische (2 vol. 1906). He also wrote Introduzione alla neolinguistica ("Introduction to neolinguistics", 1925) and Saggi di linguistica spaziale ("Essays in spatial linguistics", 1945) and was the teacher of Antonio Gramsci.