Leone Ginzburg

Leone Ginzburg
Ginzburg in his 1934 mugshot
Born(1909-04-04)4 April 1909
Died5 February 1944(1944-02-05) (aged 34)
Resting placeCampo Verano, Rome
Pen nameLeonida Gianturco
Occupation
  • Author
  • journalist
  • teacher
  • anti-fascist activist
NationalityItalian
EducationLiceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio
Alma materUniversity of Turin
Spouse
(m. 1938)
Children3, including Carlo
RelativesLisa Ginzburg (granddaughter)
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Leone Ginzburg (Italian: [leˈoːne ˈɡintsburɡ, - ˈɡin(d)zburɡ], Russian: [ˈɡʲinzbʊrk]; 4 April 1909 – 5 February 1944) was an Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. He was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg and the father of the historian Carlo Ginzburg.