Luigi Faidutti

Luigi Faidutti (before 1908)

Luigi Faidutti (born April 11, 1861 in Scrutto , municipality of San Leonardo , Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia ; † December 18, 1931 in Königsberg , Prussia ) was an Austro-Italian clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives , Member of the Landtag of Gorizia and Gradisca and Governor of Gorizia and Gradisca .

Life

Faidutti was born as the son of the municipal secretary and tax collector Pietro Faidutti. He attended elementary school in Cividale del Friuli and completed the episcopal grammar school and the theological preparatory year (corsi preperatori) in Udine by 1881 . After attending the seminary between 1881 and 1884, Faidutti was ordained a priest in 1884 . From 1884 to 1885 he worked as a chaplain and protocolist at the archbishopric chancellery and then studied between 1885 and 1888 at the higher priest training institute for St. Augustine Frintaneum in Vienna. In 1888 Faidutti received his doctorate in theology (Dr. theol.) In Vienna. Faidutti was the archbishop's house chaplain and spiritual at the seminary in Gorizia in 1888 and taught at the seminary as a supplement to the Old Testament from 1889 . In 1900 he became a professor there, and in 1902 he was appointed Provost of Gorizia.

Faidutti was chairman of the "Unione Cattolica Popolare de Friuli" from 1906 and worked between 1899 and 1920 as chairman of the Federazione delle Casse rurali e dei sodalizi cooperative per la parte italiana delle provincia die Gorizia e di Gradisca and from 1907 as chairman of the Federazione dei Cinsorzi agricoli del Friuli. Faidutti was thus the leading Italian-Catholic cooperative functionary in Gorizia and Gradisca. From 1902 to 1912 and from 1913 to 1918 he was a member of the Landtag of Gorizia and Gradisca and also held the office of governor from 1913 to 1918. He ran for the Reichsrat election in 1907 in the constituency of Gorizia and Gradisca 5 and was a member of the House of Representatives from June 17, 1907. In the 1911 Reichsrat election Faidutti was able to defend his mandate in the electoral district and was a member of the House of Representatives until November 12, 1918. In the House of Representatives, Faidutti was a member of the Club italiano popular of the Italian People's Party and its deputy chairman from 1907. Together with Romanian MPs, Italian MPs formed the Unione Latina from March 1909, and in 1911 another club of the Italian People's Party was formed.

Due to his pro-Austrian stance during the First World War, Faidutti was not allowed to return to Gorizia by the Italian authorities. He therefore initially lived in Vienna and in 1921 received permission to move to Rome and in 1924 became an auditor of the Nuncio of Kaunas ( Lithuania ). In 1925 he was appointed Apostolic Visitator in Lithuania.

literature

• Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 271 f.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A Biographical-Statistical Handbook, 1907-1913, XI. Legislative period (XVIII session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1907, p. 287
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 214