Luigi Vittorio Ferraris

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Luigi Vittorio Graf Ferraris (born March 20, 1928 in Rome ; † November 13, 2018 ) was an Italian diplomat , political scientist and legal scholar.

Life

Ferraris, son of a farmer, came from a well-known Piedmontese family. His grandfathers were Luigi Ferraris , MP, Minister and Senator in the Kingdom of Italy , and Giancarlo Croce , a general. His great-uncle Galileo Ferraris was a physicist and inventor of the Ferraris counter , another was the archaeologist Luciano Pigorini, the founder of prehistoric and protohistoric archeology in Italy.

After attending school in Turin, he studied law at the University of Rome and was awarded a doctorate in 1949. jur. PhD. He studied international law at the University of Heidelberg and the Academy for International Law in The Hague and the University of Oxford.

1952 Ferraris entered the diplomatic service of Italy. In 1953 he became consular attaché, later press officer at the Italian consulate general in Munich. After various diplomatic activities in Newark / New York, Ankara, Sofia, Caracas and Warsaw, he was the Italian ambassador in Bonn from 1980 until his retirement in 1987.

From 1987 to 2000 he was Council of State (judge) and since 2000 Honorary President of the Section of the Council of State, the Supreme Administrative Court of Italy in Rome. In 1996 he was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

Since 1987 he has worked as a scientist and professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the Oriental University of Naples, the University of Florence, La Sapienza and the Luiss University in Rome. At the University of Trieste, he was professor of international politics, strategic studies and international relations.

Luigi Vittorio Ferraris was president of the Italian-German center "Villa Vigoni" and the "Circolo di Studi Diplomatici"; President of the "Center for International Reconciliation" in Rome, the " Italian-German Academy of Studies " in Merano and member of other institutions.

Ferraris has published several books and over 400 essays on international relations, relationship history, international politics and Eastern European politics.

Honors

  • Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • Fellow Harris of the Rotary Club of Senigallia
  • Silver Medal of Merit for Culture (Medaglia d'argento di benemerito della Cultura)
  • Honorary citizen of Ostra
  • Acqui Storia Award

Fonts

  • If so, then yes - but without hysteria: to my German friends. , Munich 1988
  • Italy on the way to the «second republic» ?: The political development of Italy since 1992 (Italy in the past and present) , Peter Lang 1995, ISBN 3-631-47929-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ: Obituary notice Luigi Vittorio Graf Ferraris. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Luigi Vittorio Ferraris. Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V, accessed on November 19, 2018 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Ferraris, Luigi Vittorio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferraris, Count Luigi Vittorio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian diplomat, political and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2018