Edoardo Brizio (March 3, 1846,
Turin
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– May 5, 1907,
Bologna
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) was an Italian archaeologist. He was a student of
Giuseppe Fiorelli
Giuseppe Fiorelli (7 June 1823 – 28 January 1896) was an Italian archaeologist. His excavations at Pompeii helped preserve the city.
Biography
Fiorelli was born on 7 June 1823 in Naples. His initial work at Pompeii was completed in 1848. He ...
’s school of archaeology in
Pompeii
Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...
. Brizio became a professor of archaeology at the
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...
in 1876, and later director of the
Museo Civico of Bologna. He is notable for advancing the theory that the
Terramare population had been the original
Ligurians
The Ligures (singular Ligur; Italian: liguri; English: Ligurians) were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named.
Ancient Liguria corresponded more or less to the current Italian regio ...
.
[Mitchell, John Malcolm (1911). "Terramara". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 658–659.]
References
Italian archaeologists
Academic staff of the University of Bologna
1846 births
1907 deaths
University of Turin alumni
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