Luigi Federico Menabrea

Luigi Federico Menabrea was an Italian statesman, general, diplomat and mathematician, born at Chambéry in 1809 when it was part of the First French Empire, who served as the seventh prime minister of Italy from 1867 to 1869 and was later made Count Menabrea and Marquess of Valdora. He was educated at the University of Turin, where he qualified as an engineer and became a doctor of mathematics, and he became professor of mechanics and construction at the military academy and the university of Turin. His 1842 Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, translated with notes by Ada Lovelace, described many aspects of computer architecture and is considered the first modern example of programming.