LC control no. | no2020028766 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Venezian, Giacomo, 1861-1915 |
Associated country | Italy |
Birth date | 1861-12-07 |
Death date | 1915-11-20 |
Place of birth | Trieste (Italy) |
Affiliation | Università di Bologna |
Profession or occupation | Lawyers Law teachers |
Found in | Proprietà fondiaria in Libia, 1912: title page (Giacomo Venezian, professore dell'Università di Bologna) Wikipedia, Italian version, February 24, 2020 (Giocomo Venezian; Trieste, 7 December 1861 - Castelnuovo del Carso, 20 November 1915; Italian patriot and academic; from a Jewish family of Italian patriotic traditions, grandson of a namesake who fell in defense of the Roman republic in 1849 and converted to Catholicism; irredentist and cofounder of a secret society with goal of detaching Trieste from the Austro-Hungarian Empire; arrested and imprisoned in Trieste and then Graz; liberated, he fled to Italy, obtained Italian citizenship, and taught Roman and civilian law in Camerino, Macerata, Messina and Bologna; in 1888 he conceived and proposed the Dante Alighieri Society, one of its founders in Bologna in 1889; when World War I broke out, despite having completed normal military service and exceeding the age limit, he volunteered to remain in service to fight against Austria-Hungary; wounded, continued to fight on the front; struck again and fell at Carso, age 54; without seeing his native land redeemed and annexed to Italy; as a jurist he published several texts; his legal works came out posthumously (1918-1925)) |
Associated language | ita |