Adolfo Kind [SEP] place of birth
Adolfo Kind
Adolf respectively Adolfo Kind (1848 in Chur – August 1907) was a Swiss chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing.
Life.
Walser family which had been living in Chur for more than four centuries. When his father was appointed pastor of the Evangelic Church the family went to Milan but they removed to Switzerland at the beginning of the Sardinian War in 1859 where they lived in Graubünden. Afterwards Kind studied chemical engineering in Munich und Zürich and went back to Italy in 1879 where he
place of birth and origin, which has now been settled by the recent publication of his place of birth as the Canary Islands.
External links.
- Discography of Adolfo Colombo on Victor Records from the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR)