Francesco Gennari

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Francesco Gennari (born October 4, 1750 in Mataleto de Langhirano , today Mattaleto near Parma , † December 4, 1797 ) was an Italian anatomist and writer of the Gennari stripe , a macroscopically delimitable layer of the cerebral cortex in the area of ​​the visual cortex .

Life

Gennari received his medical training in Parma, one of his teachers was the pathologist and anatomist Michele Girardi (1731–1797). In 1776, the year of his graduation, Gennari discovered with the naked eye a white structure on the occipital lobe of a human brain. In his writing De peculiari structura cerebri, nonnulisque ejus morbis , he described this as lineola albidior . The structure, later referred to by Heinrich Obersteiner as the "Gennari Stripe" for the first time in 1888 , was the first indication of the regionally different stratification of the cerebral cortex .

In 1786, Félix Vicq d'Azyr , unaware of Gennari's publication, described the structure again, which is why it is also called the Vicq-d'-Azyr strip . In 1788 it was described by Samuel Thomas Soemmering .

Fonts

  • De peculiari structura cerebri, nonnulisque ejus morbis. Parma 1782.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edwin Clarke, Charles Donald O'Malley: The Human Brain and Spinal Cord: A Historical Study Illustrated by Writings from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Norman Publishing, 2nd edition, 1996, ISBN 0-930405-25-0 , p. 423.
  2. ^ Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach : Gennari, Francisco. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 475.
  3. ^ A b c John F. Fulton : A note on Francesco Gennari and the early history of cytoarchitectural studies of the cerebral cortex. In: Bulletin of the Institute for the History of Medicine. 5, 1937, pp. 895-913.
  4. ^ Stanley Finger: Origins of Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514694-3 , p. 75.
  5. ^ Mathias Bähr, Michael Frotscher: Neurological-topical diagnostics. 9th edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 3-13-535809-7 , p. 359.
personal data
SURNAME Gennari, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian anatomist and discoverer of the Gennari Strip
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Mataleto de Langhirano near Parma
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1797