Giuseppe Galasso
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Giuseppe Galasso | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 12 July 1983 – 14 April 1994 | |
| Constituency | Naples |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 November 1929 |
| Died | 12 February 2018 (aged 88) Pozzuoli, Italy |
| Party | Italian Republican Party |
| Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
| Occupation | politician |
| Profession | historian, lecteurer |
Giuseppe Galasso (19 November 1929 – 12 February 2018) was an Italian historian and politician. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1994.[1]
He was born in Naples in 1929: the son of a glass craftsman, he had lost his mother in 1941 and had done a little bit of everything, even the kitchen boy and the porter, to help run the family. He first took the master's qualification, in 1946, at the Pasquale Villari school, then the year after his high school diploma at Umberto high school, as a private owner".
Academic activity
Graduated in medieval history, and subsequently in literature at the Federico II University of Naples, in 1956 he won a scholarship, made available by the Italian Institute for Historical Studies, of which he would later become secretary.
In 1963 he obtained a free lecturer and taught at the universities of Salerno, Cagliari and Naples.
He has been Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the Frederick University since 1966. He was elected dean of the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the same university from 1972 to 1979. He was a professor of modern history at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples.
He has been president of the Neapolitan Society of Homeland History since 1980; member of the scientific council of the Higher School of Historical Studies of San Marino. He was president of the Venice Biennale from December 1978 to March 1983 and of the European Society of Culture from 1982 to 1988. From 1977 he was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
