Gian Domenico Romagnosi

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Gian Domenico Romagnosi

Gian Domenico Romagnosi [romaɲˈɲo: si] (born December 13, 1761 in Salsomaggiore Terme , Province of Parma , † June 8, 1835 in Milan ) was an Italian lawyer, economist, philosopher and physicist.

Life

Romagnosi attended the Collegium Alberoni from 1775 and the University of Parma from 1781 , where he completed his studies in 1786.

As early as 1802, i.e. 18 years before Hans Christian Ørsted , he published on the deflecting effect of the current on a magnetic needle , but this was ignored because he published in a daily newspaper that was only read by scientists locally and not Europe-wide (Gazetta di Trentino, 3. August 1802). After Oersted's discovery in 1820 became known, the Italians (Pietro Configliachi, editor of the Giornale di Fisica) were already accusing Romagnosi of plagiarism. The Genoese chemistry professor J. Mojon was cited as a further precursor. Romagnosi himself does not seem to have attached any importance to his observation and did not pursue it further. He also made no priority claims himself.

In Italy he shaped the principles of criminal law of his time. In 1803 Romagnosi became a teacher of constitutional law in Parma , in 1806 a councilor in the Ministry of Justice and professor of civil law in Padua . As a result of political persecution, he left Italy and in 1824 became professor of law at the University of Corfu . He died in Milan.

Romagnosi emerged as a philosopher from the school of the French sensualists , pays homage to naturalism in metaphysical terms, but in epistemological terms to subjective idealism, which goes beyond these.

A memorial was erected to him in his hometown.

Fonts

Opere , I, 1841
Legal and political writings
  • Genesi del diritto penale . Pavia 1791; 4th edition, Florence 1832
    • Genesis of Criminal Law by JD Romagnosi . From the Italian. By Heinrich Luden, Doctor of Law and Philosophy, Privatdocenten zu Jena. German by Heinrich Luden , Jena: in the Bran'schen Buchhandlung, 1833–34, 2 vols.
  • Sulla crescente popolazione (Florence 1830)
Philosophical writings
  • Che cosa è la mente sana?
  • La suprema economia dell'umano sapere and
  • Vedute fondamentali sull'arte logica (his main works).
  • Opere , 19 volumes, Florence 1832–1835, and 15 volumes, Milan 1836–1845
    • Opere ( it ), volume 1. Perelli e Mariani, Milan 1841.
    • Opere ( it ), volume 2. Perelli e Mariani, Milan 1842.
  • Scritti filosofici , 2 volumes, Florence, Le Monnier 1960. Milan, Ceschina, 1974.

literature

  • Giuseppe Ferrari : La mente di Domenico Romagnosi . Milan 1835.
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Romagnosi, Giandomenico . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, pp. 313–315 ( digitized version ).
  • Atti del Convegno di studi in onore di GD Romagnosi nel bicentenario della nascita, Giuffrè, Milan, 1961
  • EA Albertoni: La vita degli Stati e l'incivilimento dei popoli nel pensiero politico di Gian Domenico Romagnosi , Milan, Giuffrè, 1979.
  • A. Tarantino: Natura delle cose e società civile, Rosmini e Romagnosi , Rome, studies, 1983
  • Per conoscere Romagnosi , Milan: Unicopli, 1982.
  • Italo Mereu: L'antropologia dell'incivilimento in GD Romagnosi e C. Cattaneo , Piacenza, Banca di Piacenza, 2001
  • Elio Palombi: Introduzione alla Genesi del Diritto penale di GD Romagnosi, Milan, Ipsoa, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief references to Romagnosi as the forerunner of Oersted are given in the article Magnetism of the Encyclopedia Britannica in the 15th edition (1980) by Brebis Bleaney and in the article Electromagnetic Radiation by Melba Phillips
  2. ↑ Roberto de Andrade Martins, Romagnosi and Volta's pile, see web links
  3. ↑ Herbert W. Meyer, A History of electricity and magnetism, p. 46, Burndy Library, Norwalk / Connecticut 1972
personal data
SURNAME Romagnosi, Gian Domenico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romagnosi, Domenico; Romagnosi, Giandomenico; Romagnosi, Giovanni Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Salsomaggiore Terme , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1835
Place of death Milan