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Rodolfo Olgiati
Rodolfo Olgiati (Lugano, 30 June 1905 – Bern, 31 May 1986) was a Swiss educator and Humanitarianism, humanitarian Activism, activist. Biography Rodolfo Olgiati was the son of Emilio Olgiati and Fanny Pozzy. He attended school in Chur and Bern. After graduating from high school, he studied mathematics and physics at ETH Zurich and graduated as a teacher. From 1929 to 1932, he taught at Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim, created in 1910 by Paul Geheeb following the progressive education movement. The experience in this school had a great influence on his thinking and action. In 1933, he worked for an institution for children with learning difficulties in England. From 1934 to 1935, he worked in youth education for Fritz Wartenweiler, a Swiss educator and pacifist who founded the Herzberg Adult Learning Center. In 1935, Olgiati became the secretary of the pacifist organization Service Civil International, Service Civil International (SCI), created in 1920 by Pierre Cérésole. Swi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugano
Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Lugano has a population () of , and an urban agglomeration of over 150,000. It is the List of cities in Switzerland, ninth largest Swiss city. The city lies on Lake Lugano, at its largest width, and, together with the adjacent town of Paradiso, Switzerland, Paradiso, occupies the entire bay of Lugano. The territory of the municipality encompasses a much larger region on both sides of the lake, with numerous isolated villages. The region of Lugano is surrounded by the Lugano Prealps, the latter extending on most of the Sottoceneri region, the southernmost part of Ticino and Switzerland. Both western and eastern parts of the municipality share an international border with Italy. Described as a market town since 984, Lugano was the object of con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
