Pietro Albertoni (22 September 1849 – 8 November 1933 ) was an

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physiologist and politician who was appointed Senator of the Kingdom in 1912.

Biography

Pietro Albertoni was born in

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, Mantua on 22 September 1849. His father Giovanni was a surgeon. In 1866, when only sixteen years of age, he enlisted in the ranks of Garibaldi's partisans and participated in the

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. In 1873 he graduated in medicine 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 ...

. After graduation, he entered the Institute of Physiology directed by

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. In Padua he completed studies on different aspects of the physiology of the digestive and nervous systems, and the physiology of development. He worked on forensic medicine related to poisonings. In 1876 Albertoni became professor of physiology in the

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, then in 1878 professor of materia medica at the

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. He remained in Genoa until 1884, when he obtained the professorship of materia medica in 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 Bologna he collaborated extensively with

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, with whom he founded the ''Review of medicinal chemistry and pharmacy'', which soon became very influential. In 1887 he assumed the chair of Physiology, vacated by the death of

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. This was the beginning of a forty-year period of important research, especially on the physiology of the nervous system. Albertoni was elected a deputy to the legislature of the kingdom for three terms of office (1892-1895, 1897-1900 and 1900-1904) representing

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for the

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. On 17 March 1912 he was named Senator of the Kingdom. Albertoni was admitted to numerous Italian and foreign academies, including the

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. He died in Bologna on 8 November 1933.

Honors

*Knight of the Order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus *Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy The road that runs parallel to one of the sides of the Hospital S. Orsola in Bologna, dividing it from the Malpighi Hospital, is named after him.

Sources

* Vincenzo Cappelletti,
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'', Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Vol. I, 1960 *

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, «Prof. Pietro Albertoni». Estratto da ''Rivista di Biologia'', Vol. XXI, Fascicolo II, 1936-XV
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External links

Senato, Scheda del senatore Pietro Albertoni

Archivio di stato, Ritratto di Pietro Albertoni
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