Tucci was born to a middle-class family in Macerata, Marche, and thrived academically. He taught himself Hebrew, Chinese and Sanskrit before even going to university and in 1911, aged only 18, he published a collection of Latin epigraphs in the prestigious Review of the Germanic Archaeological Institute. He completed his studies at the University of Rome in 1919, where his studies were repeatedly interrupted as a result of World War I.
After graduating, he traveled to India and settled down at the Visva-Bharati University, founded by the Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. There he studied Buddhism, Tibetan and Bengali, and also taught Italian and Chinese. He also studied and taught at Dhaka University, the University of Benares and Calcutta University. He remained in India until 1931, when he returned to Italy. (Source Accessed April 14, 2020)
Affiliations & relations
- University of Rome La Sapienza · workplace affiliation
- nil · secondary affiliation
- Images of Earth and Water: The Tsa-Tsa Votive Tablets of Tibet by Juan Li, November 11, 1995 // Giuseppe Tucci vita, viaggi e avventure dell'esploratore dell'oriente // A Great Man from Macerata Who Went Far: Giuseppe Tucci, the Marches Region and the East by Enrica Garzilli, 2006 · websites
