Florian Stoppany
Florian Stoppany (6 February 1842 - 26 January 1901) was a Swiss hotelier. His enduring legacy is the Sporthotel Pontresina in Graubünden. Life Family provenance and early years Florian Stoppany, the third of his parents' recorded children, came from a family of bakers and confectioners that had been present in Pontresina over many generations. In the local Romansh language the family name was Stupan or Stuppaun, which was changed to Stuppano and Stoppany, respectively, in Italian and French. The family's wealth had been sufficient, as far back as 1742, for them to construct the "Chesa Stuppaun" (today the "Chesa Campbell"), a very substantial family house in the mainstreet of Pontresina. His father, Giachem Bunom Stoppany (1800–1867), had relocated to Berlin in Prussia. There, in partnership with another Graubünden expatriate, Johann Stehely from Silvaplana, he ran the Café Stehely near the city's Gendarmenmarkt (square), where it was fashionable for German poets to assemble. In Berlin, Giachem Stoppany linked up with Carolina Josty (1805–1876), whom he married in 1833. She had a part share in the Café Josty, which at that time was located in the street "An der Stechbahn" near the City Palace, and which became another favourite meeting place for