Brenno Bertoni

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Brenno Bertoni (born August 7, 1860 in Lottigna , † February 18, 1945 in Lugano ) was a Swiss lawyer , university professor , researcher , politician and publicist .

Life

Brenno Bertoni was born the son of the liberal lawyer, politician and former priest Ambrogio Bertoni from Lottigna. Brenno was a brother of the anarchist and Paraguayan botanist Mosè Giacomo Bertoni and also came into contact with anarchist ideas as a student. The anarchist Luigi Bertoni was his cousin. He completed his law degree in Geneva in 1883 . On his return to the canton of Ticino , he enrolled at the Masonic lodge Il Dovere . In addition to his legal work, he devoted himself to journalism and studies, and published essays and treatises on law, history, economics, politics and literature. From 1878 to 1888 he was editor of the Educatore della Svizzera italiana. In 1889 he founded La Riforma , the organ of the free-thinking opposition.

He was appellate judge (1893-1901) and president of the criminal chamber (1895-1901). With Romeo Manzoni , Emilio Bossi and his brother-in-law Francesco Chiesa , he founded the Unione radicale-sociale ticinese in 1897 , which pursued the goal of moving the Liberal Party to reforms in the social field. He was an advocate of the Italianità des Ticino. As a free thinker during the fascist era , he became a supporter of the Swiss identity of Ticino and tried to protect the canton from irredentist temptations.

From 1921 to 1928 he was a law professor at the University of Bern , Doctor honoris causa at the University of Zurich . As a politician he was 1901–1912, 1917–1921, 1931, 1936–1939 member of the Ticino Grand Council (President 1912), 1921 of the Commission for Constitutional Reform, 1914–1920 National Councilor and 1920–1935 Council of States . From 1915 to 1919 he was a member of the executive committee of the Swiss Liberals .

literature

  • Guido Calgari : Ticino degli uomini. 1966, pp. 499-520.
  • Andrea Ghiringhelli: Brenno Bertoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 18, 2004 , accessed March 23, 2020 .
  • Andrea Ghiringhelli: Il Ticino della transizione 1889-1922, Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 1988, pp. 65, 73, 79, 93 f., 117, 143, 146, 151, 162, 178, 185, 197 f., 222, 230, 236, 238, 247 f., 262 f., 266, 269, 293, 296.
  • Erich Gruner , Karl Frei: The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848-1920, p. 725.
  • Giovanni Orelli, Diana Rüesch (eds.): Carteggio Bertoni-Chiesa 1900–1940. Giampiero Casagrande, Lugano 1994.
  • Luca Saltini (ed.): Tra ideal e pragmatismo: Brenno Bertoni (1860-1945). Loggia Massonica Brenno Bertoni, Lugano 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrea Ghiringhelli: Ambrogio Bertoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, Bern. September 9, 2002, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Brenno Bertoni State and National Council on parlament.ch/it/biography
  3. ↑ Brenno Bertoni on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz, p. 205.
personal data
SURNAME Bertoni, Brenno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss university professor, politician, researcher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Lottigna
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1945
Place of death Lugano