Giovanni Battista Grassi

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Battista Grassi, around 1892
Giovanni Battista Grassi

Giovanni Battista Grassi (born March 27, 1854 in Rovellasca , Province of Como , † May 4, 1925 in Rome ) was an Italian anatomist, zoologist and parasitologist.

Giovanni Battista Grassi studied medicine at the University of Pavia, where he received his doctorate in 1898. At the Anatomical Institute in Heidelberg he worked for Carl Gegenbaur and in Zurich for Otto Bütschli .

Grassi was professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in Catania from 1883 and of comparative anatomy in Rome from 1896. From 1897 he was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and since 1908 Senator of the Kingdom of Italy.

In 1896 he discovered stages of development of young eels in the Strait of Messina, which later led to the problem of eel migration. Grassi discovered in 1898 with his collaborators Amico Bignami (1882-1929) and Giuseppe Bastianelli (1862-1959) that only mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles transmitted human malaria and in 1900 was the first author to use the name Anophelinae for the mosquito subfamily of the Anopheles relatives .

In 1896 he was awarded the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society . In 1916 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Raimondo Feletti: About the parasites of malaria. In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde. Vol. 7, No. 13, 1890, pp. 396-401 ; No. 14, 1890, ZDB -ID 210145-2 , pp. 430-435 .
  • with Raimondo Feletti: Malaria parasites in birds. In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde. Vol. 9, No. 12, 1891, pp. 403-409 ; No. 13, 1891, pp. 429-433 ; No. 14, 1891, pp. 461-467 .
  • with Raimondo Feletti: More on the malaria issue. In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde. Vol. 10, No. 14, 1891, pp. 449-454 ; No. 15, 1891, pp. 481-488 ; No. 16, 1891, pp. 517-521 .
  • Studi di uno zoologo sulla malaria. In: Real Accademia dei Lincei. Memorie della Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali. Ser. 5, Vol. 3, 1900, ISSN  0365-0286 , pp. 299-497, (Separatum: Digitalisat ).

Literature (selection)

  • Ralph Harbach: Subfamily Anophelinae Grassi, 1900. , accessed on March 17, 2018.
  • Paul de Kruif : Ross against Grassi. The fight against malaria. In: Paul de Kruif: Microbe hunters. (Original edition: Microbe Hunters. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York 1926) Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich / Leipzig 1927; 8th edition ibid. 1940, pp. 268-300.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Köhler : Grassi, Giovanni Battista. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 508.
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Grassi, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian zoologist and anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovellasca , Como Province
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1925
Place of death Rome