Giacomo Lepori
Giacomo Lepori (born May 13, 1843 in Dino ; † February 2, 1899 in Cairo ) was a Swiss engineer and architect .
Life
Giacomo Lepori was the son of the farmer Giovani Battista Lepori and his wife Maria Antonia Lepori.
He attended high school in Lugano and was a student of the philosophy teacher Carlo Cattaneo and the architect Giuseppe Fraschina . After finishing school he studied from 1863 to 1866 with Gottfried Semper at the Polytechnic (today: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ) in Zurich .
After completing his studies he became an employee of the Suez Canal Society in Paris and was sent to Port Said and Suez to help build the Suez Canal . Since 1869 he was subordinate to the Egyptian viceroy Ismail Pasha in Cairo. He designed and built various buildings in the neo-Moorish style , such as the military school , the Khedivial opera house , various public buildings (including the post office, together with Teodoro Anastasia ), city palaces and villas on the banks of the Nile .
As head of public works in Egypt , he was awarded the title of Bey in 1889 ; In the same year he returned to Ticino and settled in his villa in Castagnola , but in 1897 he finally moved to Cairo with his family.
Giacomo Lepori was married to Rosa Luisa, a daughter of Carlo Antonio Poletti. Their son was Arnoldo Lepori.
Political activity
After his return to Ticino, Giacomo Lepori was, after the Ticino putsch, a liberal politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the revolutionary government from 1890 and from 1893 to 1896 Grand Councilor
Fonts (selection)
- Architecture, construction and equipment in North American cities . Bern: Haller, 1893.
- Giacomo Lepori; Giovanni Ferri: Inauguration del monumento al professore Giuseppe Fraschina nel Liceo Cantonale . Lugano: Tip. F. Veladini, 1894.
- E tempo che la luce sia fatta !: del 15 Settembre 1893. Lugano: Tassin-Touriste, 1895.
- Les constructions scolaires au Ticino . Librairie Payot 1956.
literature
- Simona Martinoli: Giacomo Lepori. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 10, 2019 , accessed February 7, 2020 .
Web links
- GIacomo Lepori (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/dalle-origini-al-1900/vite-di-emigranti-e-discendenti/
Individual evidence
- ^ Ticino putsch. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Giacomo Lepori. In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Volume 4, p. 659 (PDF digitized version ), accessed on October 9, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lepori, Giacomo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dino |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1899 |
| Place of death | Cairo |