Luigi Luzzatti
Luigi Luzzatti · Economics & Business
Founder of the Italian people's banks and cooperative credit movement, Prime Minister of Italy (1910-11)
11 mars 1841, Venise, Italie — 29 mars 1927, Rome, Italie
Venise, Milan, Rome
Luigi Luzzatti is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founder of the Italian people's banks and cooperative credit movement, Prime Minister of Italy (1910-11)
Origins and early life
Luigi Luzzatti was born on 11 March 1841 in Venice, into a cultivated Jewish family of the city.
Work and career
An economist and jurist, he made his life's cause the credit of the small. From the 1860s he founded and propagated the Italian people's banks, the banche popolari, the first of them founded at Lodi in 1864, bringing cooperative credit to artisans, shopkeepers and farmers who had never had a banker. He taught constitutional law at the University of Padua, served repeatedly as Treasury minister and restored Italian finances more than once.
In 1910 he became Prime Minister of Italy, succeeding Sidney Sonnino — two heads of government of Jewish descent in a row — and his ministry widened the suffrage and pushed public schooling. A prolific writer on religious liberty, he remained to the end what he had been at the start, a Venetian Jew devoted to the Italian state. He died in Rome on 29 March 1927.
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Founder of the Italian people's banks and cooperative credit movement, Prime Minister of Italy (1910-11)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Luzzatti
