Quintino Sella
Quintino Sella (* July 7, 1827 in Sella di Mosso, Biella, † March 14, 1884 in Biella ) was an Italian scholar (mineralogy, crystallography ) and politicians.
Scientific career
After he had finished with twenty graduated as an engineer in Turin and was entered into the Regio Corpo delle Miniere (Royal Mining Service), he studied for three years in Paris at the Ecole des Mines further and undertook 1851/52 study trips to France, England and Germany. Among other things, he heard Geology at Elie de Beaumont and turned under the influence of Henri Hureau de Sénarmont crystallography to, but here was influenced in Turin, the position in his Fisica de ' corpi of 1837 also crystallography also by the work of Amadeo Avogadro. After his return to Turin Sella taught geometry e at the Engineering School ( Istituto Tecnico ) His work on crystallography found mainly in the period from 1854 to 1861, before the start of his political career.
As an engineer, he worked in the mines of the Kingdom of Sardinia - Piedmont worked. He put on not only an extensive mineral collection, but invented an electromagnetic readout machine that separates copper minerals from magnetite.
For political reasons, he gave the Mineralogy Department of the School of Applied Engineering Sciences, to which he was appointed in 1860, a little later on.
Political career
In 1860 he was a deputy in the last Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia and of the founding of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 until his death he was a member of the Camera dei Deputati to. He was also finance minister in the governments of Rattazzi (1862 ), La Marmora ( 1864-1865 ) and Lanza ( 1869-1873 ), under which he in 1872 after the departure of Cesare Correnti headed the Ministry of Education for some months. As finance minister, he reorganized the budget of the new Italian state and demanded primarily of ordinary people from enormous sacrifices.
Quintino Sella as Alpinist
On 23 October 1863 he founded the C.A.I. Club Alpino Italiano ( Italian Alpine Club ).
Sella initiated on 12 August 1863, the first Italian roped to Monte Viso and suggested shortly after the founding of the Italian Alpine Club Alpine Club Italiano at, whose founding members he also scored. After the Rifugio Quintino Sella Quintino Sella were in the Cozie Alps on Monte Viso, the Rifugio Quintino Sella named in the Pennine Alps on the Felikjoch and near the Mont Blanc that Bivacco Quintino Sella di Rochers '.
Honors, Personal
In 1879 he was made an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The mineral sellaite was by Giovanni Strüver ( of his assistant ) named after him. He officiated on 9 December 1874 to his death as president of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, to which he belonged as a corresponding and since 1872 as a full member since 1870.
His son Alfonso Sella was physics professor in Rome.