Graz University of Technology
Born in Gorizia, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he started playing chess as an engineering student at the Graz University of Technology and at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute of Vienna, both in Austria. After he settled in Milan in the 1890s, he joined the "Societá Scacchistica Milanese" and edited a chess column for the magazine "La Bicicletta", since 1898.