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Venezian, Giacomo, 1861-1915

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Personal name headingVenezian, Giacomo, 1861-1915
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Associated countryItaly
Birth date1861-12-07
Death date1915-11-20
Place of birthTrieste (Italy)
AffiliationUniversità di Bologna
Profession or occupationLawyers Law teachers
Found inProprietà 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))
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