Isacco Artom

Isaac Artom (31 December 1829 – 24 January 1900) was a Jewish Italian diplomat and politician.

Life Artom was born on 31 December 1829, in Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia. His father, Raffaele, was an educator. The Artom family had a number of members who achieved distinctions in various fields, including physicist Alessandro Artom, Rabbi Benjamin Artom, diplomat and historian Ernest Artom, composer Camillo Artom, attorney Eugenio Artom, biologist Cesare Artom, and scholar Elia Samuele Artom.

Artom was ready for the university when he was sixteen, but as Piedmont higher schools excluded Jews at the time, he went to Pisa in 1846, to study law at the University of Pisa. When the Revolution of 1848 broke out, he joined the students' battalion under Professor Giuseppe Montanelli (despite his frail constitution) and participated in the Battle of Curtatone and Montanara. He resumed his law studies after the war, and graduated from the University of Turin in 1853. He also represented Italy during peace negotiations with Austria in 1866, and was sent on a diplomatic mission to Vienna upon the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.

Artom died in Rome on 24 January 1900, aged 60. He was buried in Asti.