Giuseppe Luigi Assemani was a Lebanese orientalist and a Professor of Oriental languages at Rome.
Education
His uncle was Archbishop Giuseppe Simone Assemani whom he helped with his writings. Besides assisting his uncle he also studied in Rome and was appointed by the Pope, firstly as the Professor of Syriac at the Sapienza and later as the Professor of liturgy by Pope Benedict XIV.
Career
Assemani came from a well known family of Lebanese Maronites that included several notable Orientalists. They were also influential by the examples they set in their own works on how historical materials should be used.
Membership
The Pope also made Assemani a member of the Academy for Historic Research which had just been established.