Fiorenzo Facchini

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Fiorenzo Facchini (born November 9, 1929 in Porretta Terme , Province of Bologna ) is an Italian anthropologist and paleoanthropologist . Until his retirement in 2006 he was a professor at the University of Bologna . After his ordination , Facchini also worked as Episcopal Vicar of the Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Bologna .

Career

Fiorenzo Facchini studied natural sciences at the University of Bologna and was employed there as a research assistant at the Institute for Anthropology. From 1968 he held a lectureship in anthropology, also in Bologna, from 1969 to 1971 a professorship in biometry and anthropometry and from 1971 to 1975 a professorship in anthropology. Then he also moved to a chair in anthropology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia until 1978 and then held the chair in anthropology at the University of Bologna until his retirement.

Research areas

His research area was evolutionary biology , especially paleoanthropology, which he taught from 1985 to 2006 for students of archeology . He also dealt with questions of cultural anthropology . From 2003 to 2006 he taught at the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bolzano in Brixen the subject Social Anthropology . From 1971 to 2003 he was responsible for the university museum Museo di Antropologia .

Facchini researched, among other things, the settlement of Emilia-Romagna from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages , in particular trying to reconstruct the development of symbols and religiosity in order to determine their adaptive value . For this he also examined the remains of Neanderthals from a limestone cave near Krapina .

In addition to his work as a scientist, he was active at the University of Bologna as episcopal vicar and, among other things, in Catholic Action . He is also spiritual advisor to the Associazione Medici Cattolici Italiani in the Bologna section.

In a globally acclaimed essay, Facchini took a position on January 16, 2006 in the Osservatore Romano against the supporters of intelligent design by arguing from a methodological point of view that this teaching is unscientific because it mixes scientific, philosophical and religious approaches.

Book publications (selection)

Translations into German

Italian, French and English publications

  • Les défis de l'évolution. Harmony entre science et foi. Parole et Silence, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-84573-829-4 .
  • A Day with Neanderthal Man. Life 70,000 Years Ago. Twenty-First Century Books, Brookfield CT 2003, ISBN 0-7613-2767-3 .
  • A Day with Homo sapiens: Life 15,000 Years Ago. Twenty-First Century Books, Brookfield CT 2003, ISBN 0-7613-2768-1 .
  • La vita quotidiana 2 milioni di anni fa. Racconta la giornata di un Homo habilis. Jaca Book, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-16-57190-X .
  • La Religosità nella preistoria (= Di Fronte e attraverso. 287). Jaca Book, Milan 1991, ISBN 88-16-40287-3 .
  • La vita quotidiana 400,000 anni fa. Racconta la giornata di un Homo erectus. Jaca Book, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-16-57191-8 .
  • Antropologia (Evoluzione, Uomo, Ambiente). UTET, Turin 1988.
  • Il cammino dell'evoluzione umana. Le scoperte ei dibattiti della paleoantropologia (= Di Fronte e attraverso. 136). Jaca Book, Milan 1985, ISBN 88-16-40136-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bioarcheologia.it ( Memento of December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ): Curriculum vitae Fiorenzo Facchini , accessed on March 28, 2010 (PDF; 95 kB)
  2. ↑ In 'Design' vs. Darwinism, Darwin Wins Point in Rome. On: nytimes.com January 19, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Facchini, Fiorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian paleoanthropologist and Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Porretta Terme , Province of Bologna