Domenico Alberto Azuni

Domenico Alberto Azuni (born August 3, 1749 in Sassari , † January 23, 1827 in Cagliari ) was an Italian historian and legal scholar.

Life

Domenico Alberto Azuni was first a lawyer in Sassari and Turin , then a commercial judge in Nice , was called to Paris after Nice's union with France in 1792, used in the drafting of the Commercial Code and then appointed President of the Court of Appeal in Genoa. In 1804 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

After Napoleon's fall he was unemployed for a while until he was appointed a member of the High Consulate Tribunal in Cagliari by King Karl Felix of Sardinia, in which position he died on January 23, 1827.

He was an excellent expert on the law of the sea, wrote the Sistema universale dei principi del diritto marittimo del'Europa (Florence. 1795, 4 vol.), Edited by him in French as Droit maritime de l'Europe (Paris 1805, 2 vol.); then the Histoire geographique, politique et naturelle de la Sardaigne (Paris. 1802, 2 vol .; German, Leipzig 1803); a very complete Dizionario universale ragionato della giurisprudenza mercantile (Nice 1786-88; 2nd edition, Livorno 1822); Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des voyages maritimes des anciens navigateurs de Marseille (Genoa 1813) and other works.

literature

Filippo Liotta: Azuni, Domenico Alberto. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4: Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962.

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 29.

Web links

Azuni, Domenico Alberto. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
Publications by Azuni in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale

personal data
SURNAME	Azuni, Domenico Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian historian and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sassari
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1827
Place of death	Cagliari

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 29.