Augusto Piccini

Augusto Piccini (born May 8, 1854 in San Miniato , † April 15, 1905 in Florence ) was an Italian chemist.

life and work

He was born on 1854 in the son of the President of the local court, Francesco Piccini and his wife Elisabetta Boninsegni. Piccini had two brothers, Giulio (1849–1915), journalist and author of crime stories, and Giovanni (1851–1903), lawyer and since 1900 member of the Camera dei deputati of the Kingdom of Italy.

Piccini attended a course in pharmacy at the Istituto di Studi Superiori di Firenze from 1872 , and then studied chemistry at the Royal University of Padua , which he graduated in 1876. Stanislao Cannizzaro appointed him in 1880 at the age of 26 as an assistant to his chair for general chemistry in Rome, where he was a colleague of Giacomo Luigi Ciamician . In 1885 Piccini became professor of general chemistry at the University of Catania . Two years later he taught at the School of Applied Engineering in Rome. Finally he moved to Florence in 1892, where he was appointed professor of pharmaceutical and toxicological chemistry at the Istituto di Studi Superiori di Firenze.

Piccini was an early proponent of Mendeleev's ideas who made a major contribution to the spread of the periodic table in Italy. A collection of scientific correspondence from the period between 1901 and 1905, which documents his studies and the exchange of information with the scholars of his time, is in the library of the Museo Galileo. Among the letters in Italian, English, German and French is an autograph letter from Mendeleev of January 22, 1903 addressed to Piccini .

literature

Marco Ciardi: Piccini, Augusto. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 83: Piacentini – Pio V. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.

Web links

Commons : Augusto Piccini - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Standard entry in the Opac of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
Piccini's publications in the Opac des SBN

Individual evidence

↑ Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati . The date of birth is given here as December 5, 1849, the year 1849 for his brother Giulio in the DBI is obviously a misprint, as the search preview at Treccani shows 1848.
^ Kaji Masanori, Helge Kragh, Gabor Pallo: Early Responses to the Periodic System , Oxford Univ. Press, 1st edition, 2015, ISBN 978-0190200077 , p. 268.
^ Inventory list of the correspondence of the Museo Galileo

personal data
SURNAME	Piccini, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Miniato
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1905
Place of death	Florence

[1] Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati . The date of birth is given here as December 5, 1849, the year 1849 for his brother Giulio in the DBI is obviously a misprint, as the search preview at Treccani shows 1848.

[2] Kaji Masanori, Helge Kragh, Gabor Pallo: Early Responses to the Periodic System , Oxford Univ. Press, 1st edition, 2015, ISBN 978-0190200077 , p. 268.

[3] Inventory list of the correspondence of the Museo Galileo