Anton Claudio Galateo (Split, 11 February 1765 – Padua, 16 February 1831)
Son of a lieutenant colonel of the Venetian engineering corps, he entered Verona military school as a cadet on 1 October 1777, left it as second of his class and was appointed ensign in the engineering corps on 31 August 1785. He was promoted to lieutenant on 26 April 1788 and to captain on 4 November 1797. After an examination he joined the Cisalpine engineering corps as a battalion chief on 4 April 1798; he served at Brescia, Rocca d’Anfo and Bergamo. In 1799 he was taken captive at Brescia. Back in the Cisalpine Republic after 22 months of prison, he was appointed interim director of the topographical Bureau from 9 March to 7 May 1801, then went back to Rocca d’Anfo. In 1804 he was first director of the fortification depot in Milan, then director of the Foro Bonaparte, then was promoted to colonel on 13 August 1804. In 1805 he was lamed by a horse. He then became director at Brescia, Bologna (1807-1809), where he had to face insurgents, Cremona (1813) and Mantova (1814). He retired from Austrian service in May 1815, but continued to work as a civil engineer and was the first in Italy to build a suspension bridge on stranded wire cable in Padua in 1828 (Cf. 1831. Notizie intorno alla vita ed alle opere del colonnello del Genio Anton Claudio Galateo, morto in Padova il 16 febbraio 1831. Poligrafo. Giornale di scienze, lettere ed arti, t. VII. Verona: Dionigio Ramanzini: 125-141).