Angelo Fava (1808 - 1881) was an Italian educator, scholar, and administrator. Fava was born in

Chioggia Chioggia (; vec, Cióxa , locally ; la, Clodia) is a coastal town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Geography The town is situated on a small island at the southern entrance to the L ...

(province of

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) on April 8, 1808, as the son of Gian Giacomo and Teresa Meneghini. He spent his youth in

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, where his father was a police officer. Fava studied

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and

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at the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

and graduated in 1830. As a doctor, he studied

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and other diseases. While in

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, he oversaw the translation of biblical texts and was involved in the reforms of public education, first as an inspector and then as secretary of the Ministry. He worked with Filippo De Filippi who named a snake after Fava, ''

Atractus favae ''Atractus favae'', Filippi's ground snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species can be found in Suriname and Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainl ...

'' FILIPPI 1840.

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