Renzo Videsott

Renzo Videsott (born September 10, 1904 in Trento (Trento), then Austria-Hungary , † January 4, 1974 in Turin ) was an Italian mountaineer and conservationist.

Life

Videsott graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in veterinary medicine in 1928 . He then embarked on an academic career, where he became director of the Institute for Pathology and Clinical Veterinary Medicine. His greatest alpine success was the first ascent of the Spigolo della Busazza on the Busazza in the Civetta group of the Dolomites together with the mountaineer and writer Domenico Rudatis .

During the Second World War he joined the anti-fascist resistance movement Giustizia e Libertà and carried out unarmed actions in the Aosta Valley , among other places .

At the same time he began to campaign for the conservation of the Gran Paradiso National Park and the protection of the Alpine ibex ( Capra ibex ). From 1945 to 1969 he was director of the national park.

In 1948 he founded the Italian nature conservation organization Movimento Italiano per la Protezione della Natura and took part in the founding assembly of the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ). He was committed to issues of cross-border nature conservation and was Italy's representative in the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps ( CIPRA ).

Web links

Personal folder on Renzo Videsott (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)

Individual evidence

↑ Luigi Piccioni (2013): VIDESOTT Renzo (1904–1974) (in French), Histoire de la protection de la nature et de l´environnement, accessed on June 13, 2014.
↑ Cecilia Videsott and Elena Videsott (2006): The Journal Of Renzo Videsott: The “Historical Archives” Of Nature Protection in Italy in the Period 1944–1953 , in: Dan Gafta and John Akeroyd (eds.): Nature Conservation. Concepts and Practice , Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-47228-5 , pp. 46-50
↑ Renzo Videsott (CV in Italian), accessed May 29, 2014.
^ History of the Gran Paradiso National Park, accessed on May 30, 2014.
↑ The Gran Paradiso National Park, the Sentiero Videsott and a short history of the financial cuts. On the move in the Western Alps, accessed on May 30, 2014.
↑ The “glorious” 50s and 60s: a playground for scientists. CIPRA, accessed May 29, 2014.
↑ Wolfgang Burhenne : The founding of the International Alpine Commission CIPRA 1952. Review of a founding member after 60 years. Yearbook of the Association for the Protection of the Mountains (Munich), 76./77. Volume 2011/2012, pp. 15–52 (PDF, 12.5 MB).

personal data
SURNAME	Videsott, Renzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian alpinist and environmentalist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trento , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	4th January 1974
Place of death	Turin , Italy

[1] Luigi Piccioni (2013): VIDESOTT Renzo (1904–1974) (in French), Histoire de la protection de la nature et de l´environnement, accessed on June 13, 2014.

[2] Cecilia Videsott and Elena Videsott (2006): The Journal Of Renzo Videsott: The “Historical Archives” Of Nature Protection in Italy in the Period 1944–1953 , in: Dan Gafta and John Akeroyd (eds.): Nature Conservation. Concepts and Practice , Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-47228-5 , pp. 46-50

[3] Renzo Videsott (CV in Italian), accessed May 29, 2014.

[4] History of the Gran Paradiso National Park, accessed on May 30, 2014.

[5] The Gran Paradiso National Park, the Sentiero Videsott and a short history of the financial cuts. On the move in the Western Alps, accessed on May 30, 2014.

[6] The “glorious” 50s and 60s: a playground for scientists. CIPRA, accessed May 29, 2014.

[7] Wolfgang Burhenne : The founding of the International Alpine Commission CIPRA 1952. Review of a founding member after 60 years. Yearbook of the Association for the Protection of the Mountains (Munich), 76./77. Volume 2011/2012, pp. 15–52 (PDF, 12.5 MB).