Luigi Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta

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Luigi Amedeo of Savoy

Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco di Savoia-Aosta , Duke of Abruzzo (born January 29, 1873 in Madrid , † March 18, 1933 in Jawhar ) was an Italian naval officer, explorer and nobleman of the House of Savoy . He was the third-born son of Amadeus of Savoy , who was King of Spain as Amadeo I from 1870 to 1873 . He is generally known in Italy as Duca degli Abruzzi (Duke of Abruzzo), a title that only he held.

Life

In 1897 Luigi Amadeo and his companion, the mountain guide Joseph Petigax from Courmayeur , climbed the 5489 meter high Mount St. Elias on the border between Alaska and the Yukon Territory in Canada . In 1899 he drove to Franz-Josef-Land with the converted whaler Jason , to whom he had named Stella Polare , and mapped its northern part together with the Italian polar explorer Umberto Cagni . While attempting to conquer the North Pole , Cagni reached the northernmost place ever entered by humans on April 24, 1900 at 86 ° 34 'N, 64 ° 30' E.

In 1906 he led an expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda , where he measured 16 peaks, of which Mount Luigi di Savoia now bears his name.

In 1909 Luigi Amedeo went on a research trip to the Karakoram . There the expedition he led explored the second highest mountain on earth, the K2 , from three sides and reached a height of at least 6,250 m on the east ridge. In 1954 the first climbers of the mountain, known by the locals as Chogori , reached the summit via the ascent known today as the "Abruzzigrat" after Luigi Amedeo . The route is now considered a normal route . On the Chogolisa , Hermann Buhl's fateful mountain , the expedition reached almost 7,500 m - an altitude record for the time that was only broken when the English attempted to climb Mount Everest at the beginning of the 1920s. The well-known mountain photographer Vittorio Sella , who was able to take high-quality pictures of the mighty mountains and remote valleys of the Karakoram, also took part in the research trip . His extremely sharp and detailed images are still used today, more than a hundred years later, for reconnaissance.

The Picco Luigi Amedeo in Italy and the Luigi Peak in Antarctica are also named after the duke. Also the plant genus Sabaudiella Chiov. from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae) is named after him.

In his career as a naval officer he reached the rank of vice admiral in 1912 and was appointed commander in chief of the Italian fleet at the beginning of the First World War in 1914 . From this post he was replaced in 1917 by Thaon di Revel - the previous chief of the admiralty's staff.

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  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
  2. ^ Paul G. Halpern: A Naval History of World War I. 2. hardcover print. UCL Press, London 1995, ISBN 1-85728-295-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Savoia-Aosta, Luigi Amedeo di
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savoy, Luigi Amedeo of; Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco di Savoia-Aosta, Duke of Abruzzo; Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di; Savoia, Luigi Amadeo di; Duca degli Abruzzi; Duke of Abruzzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian naval officer, explorer and nobleman of the House of Savoy
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1933
Place of death Jawhar