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]
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]
Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy