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{{Infobox Prime Minister 
| name               = Alcide De Gasperi
| image              = Alcide de Gasperi 2.jpg
| order              = [[List of Prime Ministers of Italy|30th]] <br> [[Prime Minister of Italy]]
| monarch            = [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy|Victor Emmanuel III]]<br>[[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]]
| president    	     = [[Enrico De Nicola]] <br> [[Luigi Einaudi]]
| term_start         = December 10, 1945 
(contracted; show full)il 3, 1881 – August 19, 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the [[Democrazia Cristiana|Christian Democratic Party]]. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics.  A conservative Catholic, he was one of the [[Founding fathers of the European Union]], along with the [[France|Frenchman]] [[Robert Schuman]] and the German [[Konrad Adenauer]]. 
The 1954–1955 academic year at the [[College of Europe]] was named in his honour.

==Biography==
===Early years===
De Gasperi was born in [[Pieve Tesino]] in [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]], which at that time belonged to [[Austria-Hungary]], now part of the [[Trentino]] in Italy. His father was a local police officer of limited financial means. From 1896 De Gasperi was active in the Social Christian movement. In 1900 he joined the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in [[Vienna]], where he played an important role in the inception of the Christian student movement. He was very much inspired(contracted; show full)d although the project eventually failed, De Gasperi helped develop the idea of the common [[European Defense Community|European defence policy]].<ref>[http://www.theflorentine.net/articles/article-view.asp?issuetocId=2497 In the beginning was De Gasperi], The Florentine, October 4, 2007</ref> In 1952 he received the [[Karlspreis]] (International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen), an award by the German city of [[Aachen]] to people who contributed to the European idea and European peace.
 The 1954–1955 academic year at the [[College of Europe]] was named in his honour.

==See also==
* [[Alcide de Gasperi Building]]

==References==
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* [http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/printout/0,8816,890557,00.html Man from the Mountains], biography in Time Magazine, May 25, 1953
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