BUCCA, Salvador (Salvatore Bucca). Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto near Messina in Sicily
30.10.1920 — Buenos Aires 30.12.2005. Argentinian (Italian-born) Linguist interested in the Upanishads. Born in Sicilly, studied at Pisa (graduated in classics 1944), then collaborator in the Lexicon Etruscum in Florence, moved to Argentina in 1948. Taught classics and Sanskrit at Tucumán 1948-51, then at University of Cuyo. In 1955-83 Professor of Linguistics (Lingüística general) at Universidad de Buenos Aires. His main field were the indigenous languages of Chaco, Argentina. Married María Helena Katzenelson Longhi, one son and one daughter.
Publications: Spanish transl.: “Kaṭha Upaniṣad. Texto sánscrito, introducción, traducción y notas”, Humanitas, Revista de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Univ. Nacional de Tucumán 1:2, 1953, 229-301; “Muṇḍaka-Upaniṣad, introducción, traducción y comentario”, Revista de estudios clásicos 6, Mendoza 1955, 68-98.
– “Word order and its stylistic value in the Īśopaniṣad”, P. K. Gode Comm. Vol. Poona 1960, 34ff.; “Composición y pensamiento de la Muṇḍaka-Upaniṣad”, Anales de Filología Clásica (Univ. de Buenos Aires) 7:2, 1960, 55-65; “La imagen del carro en el Fedro de Platon y en la Kathā-Upaniṣad”, ibid. 8, 1964, 5-28.
– Wrote on Indo-European and on South American Indian languages.
Sources: Wikipedia briefly (more in Italian and Spanish versions), dates and family in genealogiafamiliar.net; stray notes in Internet.
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