Caspar Decurtins
Caspar Decurtins (23 November 1855 - 30 May 1916) was a politician (Catholic-Conservative) from the Surselva region, up-river to the west of Chur in the Swiss canton of Grisons.[1][2]
He is regarded as a leading pioneer of the Social Catholicism movement.[3]
Life
Caspar Decurtins was born in Trun, a small village in the Romansh speaking western part of the canton. His father, Laurenz Christian Decurtins, was a physician and one of the local land owners. His mother, born Margaretha Katharina Latour, also came from a prominent family in the Vorderrhein (literally: "pre-Rhine") valley. The politician Caspar de Latour (1827-1861) was a paternal uncle.[4]
References
- ^ Adolf Collenberg (8 May 2009). "Decurtins, Caspar". Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, Berne. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ Karl Fry (1957). "Decurtins, Kaspar". Neue Deutsche Biographie. p. 550. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ Cédric Humair (January 2004). Capitalisme organisé et abandon du libre-échange. Peter Lang. p. 621. ISBN 978-3-03910-390-4.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Adolf Collenberg. "Decurtins, Caspar". Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz, Bern. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
