Costantino Bernasconi
Costantino Bernasconi (born April 11, 1820 in Chiasso ; † June 20, 1902 ) was a Swiss politician , national councilor , councilor of the Ticino FDP radicals and colonel in the Swiss army .
Life
Costantino Bernaconi was born the son of the landowner Luigi von Chiasso and Carolina Nolfi. He studied law at the University of Modena . Afterwards he returned to Chiasso, where he worked as a lawyer and notary. From 1852 to 1857 he was mayor of Chiasso and remained on the local council until 1877.
As a politician, he was the Ticino cantonal parliament in 1853 and from 1893 to 1902 and from 1863 to 1872 and 1884-1893 National Council , and from 1874 to 1875 the Council of States . In autumn 1890 he took part in the conference convened by the federal authorities for peace between the Ticino parties in Bern . In 1871 he became a colonel in the Swiss Army .
With the sculptor Vincenzo Vela , the poet Giovanni B. Buzzi and Augusto Mordasini , he was one of the first advocates of cremation in the canton of Ticino . He was one of the concessionaires on the Chiasso – Lugano – Bellinzona railway line (1856).
literature
- Adolfo Bächtold: Toponomastica chiassese tra cronaca e storia. Tipo Print Offset di Roncoroni + Sulmoni, Mendrisio 1985.
- Erich Gruner : Federal Assembly. 1, Francke, Bern 1966, p. 724.
- Daniela Pauli Falconi: Costantino Bernasconi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 18, 2004 , accessed December 9, 2919 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Costantino Bernasconi National Council and Council of States on parlament.ch/de/biographie
- ↑ La cremazione nel Canton Ticino (Italian) on
- ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Costantino Bernasconi digitized version on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernasconi, Costantino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician (FDP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chiasso |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1902 |
| Place of death | Chiasso |