Pellegrino Rossi

Pellegrino Luigi Edoardo Rossi ( born July 13, 1787 Carrara, † November 15, 1848 in Rome ) was an Italian jurist, economist, diplomat and politician. He became a citizen of Geneva in 1820 and 1838 by France. As prime minister of Pope Pius IX. he was murdered after barely two months in office activity.

Life

Rossi had studied law and initially taught criminal law at the University of Bologna, when he Commissioner General for the occupied provinces between Tronto and Po was under Joachim Murat.

After its decline Rossi in 1816 Italy had to leave and went to Geneva, where he taught from 1819 Roman Law. In 1820 he became a member of the Council of the Canton of Geneva. In 1832 he was sent as ambassador to the Geneva court hearing where he was rapporteur on the revision committee of the Swiss Federal contract. He drew up the instructions given by the Diet on 17 July 1832 in Luzern in order draft a new constitution (→ Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation ), which was known as the Rossi plan or the testimony of 15 December 1832.

Sent by the Diet to regulate the Polish emigrants being to Paris, he was invited in 1833 to teach as a successor to Jean - Baptiste Say at the Collège de France Political Economy. At the Sorbonne, he taught constitutional law since 1834, also was a member of the Academy of Sciences, founded in 1832 morales et politiques. Collected in 1839 for a peer of France, he resigned his teaching positions and entered 1840 in the Council of State, where he later dealt with the education and foreign affairs.

Sent in 1845 as envoy extraordinary of France and the Holy See to Rome, he received in May 1846 rank of ambassador to the Papal States and was appointed French Count. On the reform efforts of Pius IX. Whose election he had promoted, he took significant share. After the February Revolution of 1848 he was relieved of his position as a French ambassador.

After he had been, the national aspirations of Italy inclined lively, elected in Bologna for deputies, he took over after the fall of Terenzio Mamiani on September 14, 1848 in the newly formed Papal Cabinet, the Ministry of Home Affairs and provisionally the areas police and finance. With this central position as Prime Minister, he received the difficult task of reconciling the papal rule with the liberal demands.

Two months later, on November 15, 1848, Rossi was murdered at the opening of the Chamber of Deputies on the steps of the Palace of Cancellaria of Santo Costantini. The attack was the signal for the outbreak of the revolution in the Papal States, followed on November 23, followed the flight of the Pope. The political murder caused a storm of indignation, especially among the conservatives in Europe.

Economic lessons

Rossi sat down after David Ricardo for a " rational economics " of abstract deductive reason - a consideration. The juxtaposed with the teaching of the economists Adam Smith and Jean- Baptiste Say he described as "applied" economics. Of this he differed again " morality and politics ," as he called social policy. Rossi described Ricardo's theory of value and cost his theory of rent in an easily understandable form, but deepened his own economic ideas are not particularly analytical.

Works

• Traité du droit penal. 4th edition, 2 vols, Paris 1872 ( first Paris 1829).
• Traité de droit francais constitutionnel. 2nd edition, 2 vols, Paris 1877 ( first Paris 1836).
• Cours d' économie politique. 4th edition, 2 vols, Paris 1865 ( first Paris 1839-41 ).