Antonio Lussich

Antonio Dionisio Lussich Griffo ( born June 23, 1848 in Montevideo, † June 5, 1928 ) was an Uruguayan Reeder, botanist and writer.

Antonio Lussich arrived in Montevideo, the son of Felipe Lussichs to the world. Up to the age of 14 visited Lussich who spoke five languages ​​fluently, the Colegio Alemán. The Blancos belonging, he was a soldier in 1870 to the ranks of the out of Timoteo Aparicio against the government Lorenzo Batlles troops. Two years later he took part in the Revolución Tricolor. 1879 was the marriage to Angela Portillo. The marriage produced nine daughters and one son. After the death of his father in 1889 he took with his brother Manuel Lussich his father's company. The two paid off the remaining brothers, so that henceforth Antonio had 60 percent and 40 percent of these Manuel shipping company. 1882 was the associated fleet already of 15 schooners, sloops, ketches and the Plata also a first steamer was one of them. The company grew dramatically in the following years and soon were already part of other steamboats, like the Emperor, Atlantico, Huracan and Powerful for inventory. In addition, we created a rescue service on the Río de la Plata, which includes many shipwrecked owed ​​their lives. This Flota de Gris Lussich then gained worldwide fame. Lussich personally Award this context, for example, the English consul with a gold medal for his services.

Even as a poet himself did Lussich forth. So written by him about the poems Los Tres Orientales Gauchos, which he wrote in Buenos Aires in June 1872, and a year later formed El Matrero Luciano Santos.

On October 5, 1896 Antonio Lussich earned about a hundred kilometers east of Montevideo, Punta Ballena near the coast of the Río de la Plata 1,500 acres of land. Here he built with the Arboretum Lussich, a botanical garden of extraordinary size and diversity, his life's work. In this he was buried after his death at his own request.