Giuseppe Ermini

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Giuseppe Ermini (born July 20, 1900 in Rome ; † May 21, 1981 in Rome ) was an Italian legal historian , university rector and politician .

Life

academic career

From 1917 to 1921 he studied law at the University of Rome and did his doctorate with Francesco Brandileone on Giovanni da Legnano , a lawyer of the 14th century. In 1926 he obtained the libera docenza and a teaching position at the University of Urbino . In 1927 he was offered the chair of Italian legal history at the University of Cagliari . In 1932 he moved to Perugia , where he worked until his retirement.

From 1944 to 1976 he was rector of the University of Perugia , only during his tenure as minister of education he did not exercise this function. From 1940 to 1975 he also taught Ius commune at the Lateran University in Rome. In 1952 he was the founder and until 1977 President of the Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo (CISAM), which is known worldwide for its congresses and the resulting publications, mainly on research into the early Middle Ages. Further study centers under his direction were set up in Todi , Gubbio and Spello , the Società internazionale di studi francescani , founded in 1902 by Paul Sabatier in Assisi , was reorganized at his instigation.

In 1988 the Centro di Studi Internazionali Giuseppe Ermini was opened in Ferentino , also on his initiative. The plan was already drawn up in connection with the Premio Città di Ferentino , founded in 1977 , which was also suggested by Ermini. The focus of the activities is on studies of Ferentino and its territory without epochs and with special attention to archeology.

Political career

In the first legislative period 1948-1953 of the Italian Republic he was a member of the constituency of Perugia-Rieti-Terni for the Democrazia Cristiana , after he had been a member of the Assemblea Costituente as a representative of the XIX constituency of Perugia in 1946 . In 1953 he was re-elected. He was a member of the Committee on Education and Fine Arts. Under Amintore Fanfani (January 18, 1954) he was sottosegretario alla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, he held the same position in the Mario Scelba cabinet from February 10 to September 18, 1954, and on September 20 he became Minister of Education (Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione) until July 5, 1955. He also belonged to the Camera dei Deputati in the third (1958) and fourth legislative periods (1963) . In 1968 he ran for the first time for the Senate , but narrowly missed entry. On May 7, 1972, he was elected as a senator for the constituency of Perugia I, in which he was a member of the Committee for Education and Fine Arts (Commissione Istruzione e Belle Arti). He was particularly active in the field of education and cultural policy, including the establishment of the Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali .

Publications (selection)

  • Giuseppe Ermini, Scritti storico-giuridici , a cura di Ovidio Capitani ed Enrico Menestò, Spoleto 1997, pp. XIV-864. (Collectanea 9) ISBN 88-7988-208-2

Commemoration

In 2008, the City of Rome placed a memorial plaque in his honor at the house in Piazza d'Aracoeli 7 in Rome, where he lived.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the Fondazione with its founding history
  2. ^ Homepage of the Centro in Ferentino
  3. ^ I deputati e senatori del primo Parlamento Repubblicano, 1949
personal data
SURNAME Ermini, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermini, Giuseppe Rufo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian legal historian and politician, member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1981
Place of death Rome