Giorgio Baglivi

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Giorgio Baglivi

Giorgio Baglivi , also Giorgio degli Armeni (born September 8, 1668 in Ragusa (see below); † June 15 or June 17, 1707 in Rome ) was an Italian doctor .

Life

Giorgo Baglivi was probably born as the son of a merchant in what is now Dubrovnik, which was then called Ragusa. Some authors are of the opinion that his place of birth was Ragusa in Sicily. His birth name was Duro Armeno. He got the name Giorgio Baglivi after becoming an orphan as a toddler, at the age of 15 when he was adopted by the Italian doctor Pietro Angelo Baglivi (1624-1704).

Baglivi studied medicine in Naples and Salerno. In 1668 he was in Pisa, where he came into contact with Lorenzo Bellini . Baglivi was Marcello Malpighi's assistant in Bologna and Rome from 1691 . In 1695 he became papal physician and in 1696 professor of anatomy at the Sapienza University in Rome. In 1698 he was elected a member of the Royal Society . On August 23, 1699 he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . His academic nickname was Thales .

Baglivi performed microscopic examinations of muscle fibers and body fluids such as blood, bile, lymph and saliva.

In physiology, Giorgio Baglivi was the forerunner of Albrecht von Haller . When Marcello Malpighi died in 1694, Giorgio Baglivi performed his teacher's autopsy.

The Sala Baglivi in Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome, where Baglivi worked as a doctor and researcher, is named after Baglivi.

Fonts

  • De fibra motrice. 1700
  • Specimen. 1702
  • CG Kühn (Ed.): Opera omnia medico-practica et anatomica. 2 volumes, Leipzig 1827/28.

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Individual evidence

  1. June 17th according to the tomb .
  2. a b c Francesco Trevisani: Giorgio Baglivi. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 23 f. Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  3. ^ Entry on Baglivi, Giorgio (1668 - 1707) in the archive of the Royal Society , London
  4. JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 202 digitized