Quintino Sella

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Quintino Sella

Quintino Sella (born July 7, 1827 in Sella di Mosso , Province of Biella , † March 14, 1884 in Biella ) was an Italian scholar ( mineralogy , crystallography ) and politician.

Scientific career

After completing his engineering studies in Turin at the age of twenty and joining the Regio Corpo delle Miniere (Royal Mining Service), he continued studying for three years in Paris at the École des Mines and undertook study trips to France, England and Germany in 1851/52 . Among other things, he heard Geology at Elie de Beaumont , and turned under the influence of Henri Hureau de Sénarmont of crystallography to, but was also due to the work of Amadeo Avogadro influenced in Turin, who in his Fisica de 'corpi treated from 1837 also Crystallography . After his return to Turin , Sella taught geometry at the engineering school (Istituto Tecnico). He mainly dealt with crystallography from 1854 to 1861, i.e. before the start of his political career.

As an engineer he worked in the mines of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont . In doing so, he not only created an extensive mineral collection, but also invented an electromagnetic selection machine that separates copper minerals from magnetite.

For political reasons he gave up the mineralogy chair at the school for applied engineering, to which he had been appointed in 1860, a little later.

Political career

In 1860 he was a member of the last parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia and from the founding of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 until his death he was a member of the Camera dei deputati . He was also Minister of Finance in the governments of Rattazzi (1862), La Marmora (1864-1865) and Lanza (1869-1873), under whom he headed the Ministry of Education for a few months after the departure of Cesare Correnti in 1872 . As finance minister, he rehabilitated the budget of the new Italian state and demanded enormous sacrifices, especially from the common people.

Quintino Sella as an alpinist

On October 23, 1863 he founded the CAI Club Alpino Italiano (Italian Alpine Club).

On August 12, 1863, Sella led the first Italian rope team on Monte Viso and shortly afterwards initiated the establishment of the Italian Alpine Club, Club Alpino Italiano , of which he was one of the founding members. After Quintino Sella, the Cottian Alps became the Rifugio Quintino Sella on Monte Viso, in the Valais Alps the Rifugio Quintino Sella on the Felikjoch, in the Brenta the Rifugio Tuckett - Quintino Sella on the Tuckettjoch and near Mont Blanc the 'Bivacco Quintino Sella' di Rochers'.

Honors, personal matters

In 1861 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1879 he became an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland . On December 27, 1880 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences . In 1881 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . The mineral sellaite was named after him by Giovanni Strüver (who was his assistant). From December 9, 1874 until his death, he served as President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , of which he was a corresponding member since 1870 and a full member since 1872.

His son Alfonso Sella was a physics professor in Rome.

Fonts

  • Treatises on crystallography. Edited by F. Zambonini. Ostwald's classic 155, Leipzig 1906, digitized

literature

Web links

Commons : Quintino Sella  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Cabinet list Governo Rattazzi I
  2. ^ Cabinet list Governo La Marmora II
  3. ^ Cabinet list Governo Lanza I
  4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 223.
  5. ^ List of members since 1666: letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 29, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Sella, Quintino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian scholar and politician, member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Sella di Mosso , Province of Biella
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1884
Place of death Biella