Luigi Berlinguer
Honorific suffixOMRI
OfficeMinister of Education
Term start18 May 1996
Term end26 April 2000
Prime minister
PredecessorGiancarlo Lombardi
Successor

Tullio De Mauro

Luigi Berlinguer
Office 2Member of the European Parliament
Term start 214 July 2009
Term end 21 July 2014
Constituency 2North-East Italy
Office 3Member of the Senate of the Republic
Term start 330 May 2001
Term end 324 July 2002
Constituency 3Tuscany
Office 4Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term start 415 April 1994
Term end 429 May 2001
Constituency 4Florence
Term start 516 May 1963
Term end 54 June 1968
Constituency 5Cagliari
Birth date25 July 1932
Birth placeSassari, Kingdom of Italy
Death date1 November 2023 (aged 91)
Death placeSiena, Italy
Party
  • PCI (until 1991)
  • PDS (1991–1998)
  • DS (1998–2007)
  • PD (2007–2023)
Alma materUniversity of Sassari
Relatives

Luigi Berlinguer (luˈiːdʒi berliŋˈɡwɛr; 25 July 1932 – 1 November 2023) was an Italian jurist and politician. He was a professor at the University of Siena, and also served as the minister of university and research and the minister of education.

Early life and education

Berlinguer was born in Sassari, Sardinia, on 25 July 1932.[1] His brother, Sergio Berlinguer, was a diplomat and politician. They were cousins of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) leader Enrico Berlinguer, who died in 1984.[2] He obtained a law degree from the University of Sassari in 1955.[3]

Career

Berlinguer served as mayor of Sennori.[4] He was the rector of the University of Siena from 1985 to 1993, when he was appointed to the Ciampi Cabinet as minister of universities, science, and technology.[2] He was one of the three former PCI members in the cabinet.[2][5] He served as the minister of education between 1996 and 2000 in the cabinets led first by Romano Prodi and then by Massimo D'Alema.[6] He was also acting minister of universities, science, and technology from 1996 to October 1998.[7] He was succeeded by Ortensio Zecchino as minister.[8] In addition, he served in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic.[4]

As a member of the Democratic Party,[9] Berlinguer was elected as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009, sitting as part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.[9] In the European Parliament, he served as first vice-chair of the committee on legal affairs and as a member of the committee on culture and education beginning in 2009.[4]

Death

Berlinguer died on 1 November 2023, at the age of 91.[10][11]

Electoral history

ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesResult
1963Chamber of DeputiesCagliari–Sassari–Nuoro–OristanoPCI16,633Elected
1994Chamber of DeputiesFlorencePDS34,218Elected
1996Chamber of DeputiesFlorencePDS40,850Elected
2001Senate of the RepublicTuscany – PisaDS78,361Elected
2009European ParliamentNorth-East ItalyPD81,464Elected

Source:[12]

Awards and honours

In 2011, Berlinguer received by the European Parliament the MEP award in the field of culture and education.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Luigi Berlinguer". European Parliament. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  2. ^ Patricia Clough (29 April 1993). "Ex-Communists join Italy's reform government". The Independent. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Curriculum Vitae". European Parliament. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  4. ^ "SAA Conference". Society of Audiovisual Authors. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  5. ^ Peggy Polk (29 April 1993). "Non-politician Puts Italy on Fresh Course". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  6. ^ Parise, Stefano (2013). "Speakers". AIB-WEB. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  7. ^ Susan Biggin (30 October 1998). "Reforms at Final Stage Under New Minister". Science. 282 (5390): 855–856. doi:10.1126/science.282.5390.855a. S2CID 152889980
  8. ^ "Berlinguer bows out of ministry". Times Higher Education. 2 November 1998. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  9. ^ "Luigi Berlinguer". Political Memory. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  10. ^ "Luigi Berlinguer has died: the former minister was hospitalized in Siena". L'Unione Sarda English. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  11. ^ "È morto Luigi Berlinguer, ex ministro dell'Istruzione" (in Italian). Il Post. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  12. ^ L'Archivio gov.it
  13. ^ Desmond Hinton-Beales (30 November 2011). "MEP awards 2011 winners announced". The Parliament. Archived from the original on 4 December 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  14. ^ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana" (in Italian). Quirinale.it. Retrieved 1 November 2023.