Giosuè Sangiovanni
Giosuè Edoard Sangiovanni (15 January 1775 – 17 May 1849) was an Italian
zoologist, the first professor of comparative anatomy in Italy and an early exponent of evolution.[1]
Born at
Legion of Honor
.
Sangiovanni was supportive of Lamarck and Erasmus Darwin's evolutionary ideas. He obtained a copy of Zoonomia and walked around Paris for several weeks with it in his pocket.[3]
Called to Naples in 1806, at the reorganization of the university, he planned and brought to fruition the university's Museo Zoologico and held the first chair of comparative anatomy in the faculty of natural sciences.
He died after an extended illness, in retirement at Posillipo near Naples.
Notes
- ^ Obituary, in Rendiconto delle adunanze e de' lavori della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Napoli, 1849:113-114.
- ^ Sangiovanni in his third year with Lamarck, is among 25 names in the Registre d’inscription au cours de Lamarck pour 1807 Archived 2013-04-12 at the Wayback Machine/
- ^ Corsi, Pietro. (2005). Before Darwin: Transformist Concepts in European Natural History. Journal of the History of Biology 38: 67-83.
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