Edoardo de Launay

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Edoardo de Launay (1884)

Luigi Maria Edoardo de Launay (* 1820 in Pinerolo ; † February 7, 1892 in Berlin ) was a Sardinian , later Italian diplomat .

Life

Edoardo was born in 1820 as the son of the Sardinian Prime Minister Claudio Gabriele de Launay (1786-1850). He began his diplomatic career as legation secretary in the Sardinian embassy in Bern (1842) and then in the same function in Berlin (1845). After an extraordinary posting to Portugal in 1849, he became Minister-Resident in Madrid the following year and returned to the Prussian court in Berlin on August 13, 1853 as the extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of Sardinia.

In preparation for the Second Italian War of Independence (1959), he worked intensively to gain Prussia's support for Sardinia and established close contacts with leading figures in the Prussian government. In 1864 he was transferred to St. Petersburg as the Italian envoy , but on March 21, 1867 he returned to his post in the Prussian capital. On April 20, 1871 he was "sliding" to the Italian ambassador in the German Empire and from 1875 in the title and rank of ambassador . He remained in this position until the end of his life.

As a representative of Italy he took part in the Berlin Congress in 1878 and was one of the leading architects of the Triple Alliance in the 1880s .

Honors and memberships

literature

  • Holger Afflerbach : The Triple Alliance, European Great Power and Alliance Policy before the First World War , Böhlau , Vienna, 2002 ( online )
  • Joachim Scholtyseck : Allied or vassal ?: Italy and Germany in the time of the Kulturkampf and the "war-in-sight" crisis 1875 , Böhlau , Vienna, 1994

Individual evidence

  1. Paola Casana Testore:  De Launay, Edoardo. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 36:  DeFornari – Della Fonte. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1988.
  2. Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 230, 374 .
predecessor Office successor
Alberto di Ricci Sardinian envoy to Prussia
1853–1864
Giulio Camillo de Barral de Monteauvrand
Gioacchino Napoleone Pepoli Italian envoy to Russia
1864–1867
Camillo Caracciolo di Bella
Giulio Camillo de Barral de Monteauvrand Italian envoy to Prussia
1867–1871
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- Italian ambassador to Germany
1871–1892
Carlo di Lanza-Busia