Giovanni Gallina (diplomat) explained

Giovanni Gallina
Nationality:Italian
Birth Date:30 June 1852
Birth Place:Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia
Death Place:Turin, Italy
Office:Italian Minister to China
Term Start:19 December 1901[1]
Term End:10 July 1904
Predecessor:Giuseppe Salvago Raggi
Successor:Carlo Baroli
Office1:Italian Ambassador to Japan
Term Start1:1907
Term End1:1908
Predecessor1:Giulio Cesare Vinci
Successor1:Alessandro Guiccioli
Office2:Italian Ambassador to France
Term Start2:1908
Term End2:1910
Predecessor2:Giuseppe Tornielli Brusati di Vergano
Successor2:Antonino Paternò Castello
Office3:Senator of the Kingdom of Italy
Termstart3:16 October 1913[2]
Termend3:17 August 1936

Count Giovanni Gallina (30 December 1852 – 17 August 1936[2]) was an Italian diplomat and politician. He became a senator on 16 October 1913.[2]

Biography

Count Giuseppe Pietro Maria Giovanni Gallina[2] was born on 30 December 1852 in Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia, to a father who was an Italian patriot from 1821.[2]

He graduated in law in 1880. In the same year He started his diplomatic career and was sent first to the Italian legation in St Petersburg, then to the legation in Constantinople, where he remained for several years.[3]

In 1892 he is transferred to Beijing and later was ambassador in Tokyo and Paris. Since 1913 he sat in the Italian senate.[2] He was Italian Ambassador to China from 19 December 1901 until 10 July 1904[1] and Italian Ambassador to France.[4]

Honors

Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy

See also

Notes and References

  1. February 2013 . Storia & Diplomazia Rassegna dell'Archivio Storico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1 . 40–43. 14 April 2021.
  2. Web site: Gallina Giovanni. Italian Senate. 16 April 2021. https://archive.today/20151222040829/http://notes9.senato.it/web/senregno.nsf/65a0a8ced8361de0c12571140059a1c7/98cd3a28e30bb57a4125646f005bf725?OpenDocument. 22 December 2015.
  3. Book: Università degli Studi di Lecce. 1987. La formazione della diplomazia nazionale (1861-1915) Repertorio bio-bibliografico dei funzionari del Ministero degli Affari Esteri. IT . Roma . Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca della Stato . pp. 344-345
  4. Book: Almanacco italiano Volume 15. 182. Bemporad-Marzocco.. 1910.