Giovanni Battista Pioda (diplomat, 1850)
Giovanni Battista Pioda (also Giovan Battista Pioda or Jean Baptiste Pioda ) (born April 24, 1850 in Lugano , † November 30, 1914 in Porto d'Anzio ) was a Swiss diplomat . Together with Alfred de Claparède and Charles Lardy , Pioda was one of the first generation of professional diplomats in Switzerland.
Life
As the son of his father Giovanni Battista Pioda , who was born in Locarno and was a former federal councilor and diplomat, he followed his father to Bern and then to Italy . He studied law in Rome and then worked for several years at two banks in Italy and acquired in 1880 the licentiate in law. After the outbreak of World War I , but before Italy entered the war, Pioda died near Rome.
Diplomatic service
In 1875 he entered the diplomatic service and became embassy attaché at the legation in Rome. In 1877 he was promoted to legation secretary and in 1884 to legation councilor in the same post. On November 23, 1894, the Federal Council appointed Pioda extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of the embassy in Washington to succeed Alfred de Claparède . Fernand du Martheray replaced Pioda in Washington in 1902, and after the Silvestrelli affair , Pioda was commissioned by the Federal Council in 1902 as the new Swiss envoy in Italy, succeeding Gaston Carlin , to normalize Swiss-Italian relations. Indeed, it has been difficult for Pioda to win the trust of the Italians. On November 30, 1914, Pioda died in office.
literature
- Carlo Agliati: Giovan Battista Pioda. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 4, 2011 , accessed May 9, 2020 .
- Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Éditions Universitaires Friborg, Freiburg 1990.
Web links
- Documents by and about Pioda, Giovanni Battista in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ^ Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990, p. 287.
- ^ Rudolf Probst: The Political Department 1848-1945. The establishment of a state body for foreign affairs using the example of Switzerland , University of Bern 1982, p. 91.
- ^ Verdiana Grossi / GL: Silvestrelli affair. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Federal Council Protocol No. 3186 of July 30, 1902: "Relations with Italy and transfer of envoys" in the Dodis database of diplomatic documents in Switzerland
- ^ Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990, p. 271.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Alfred de Claparède |
Swiss envoy in Washington, DC 1894–1902 |
Fernand you Martheray |
Gaston Carlin |
Swiss envoy in Rome 1902–1914 |
Alfred von Planta |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pioda, Giovanni Battista |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pioda, Giovan Battista; Pioda, Jean Baptiste; Pioda, Johann Baptist |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1850 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugano |
DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1914 |
Place of death | Anzio |