Giuseppe Colasanti

Giuseppe Colasanti

Giuseppe Colasanti (born January 21, 1846 in Civita Castellana , † January 2, 1903 in Rome ) was an Italian physiologist and pharmacologist and professor at the University of Rome .

Life and accomplishments

After studying medicine in Rome, Giuseppe Colasanti worked from 1871 at the anatomical institute of the University of Messina under Francesco Tòdaro and from 1874 at the anatomical laboratory under Franz Boll . A scholarship enabled him to embark on a longer study trip from 1876 that took him through Europe: to the chemical-physiological laboratory of Felix Hoppe-Seyler in Strasbourg , to the physiological laboratory of Eduard Pflüger in Bonn and to Vienna to the pathological institute of Salomon Stricker . When he returned to Rome, he became professor of physiology and took over teaching from Franz Boll in anatomy and comparative physiology, when he was absent due to illness in 1879 and died that same year.

In 1880 Colasanti was appointed professor of physiology at the University of Camerino , but returned to Rome in 1881 to teach physiological chemistry at the Physiological Institute under the direction of Jakob Moleschott . After the death of Francesco Scalzi in 1890, he also took over the lectures in pharmacology and was only appointed full professor in 1897. During this time he devoted himself particularly to experimental pharmacology and the establishment of the pharmacological institute of the University of Rome. He also gave lectures in histology and pathological chemistry.

On April 29, 1897 he was accepted into the Leopoldina .

literature

• L. Luciani: Giuseppe Colasanti . In: Ricerche eseguite nello Istituto Farmacologia Sperimentale e di Chimica Fisiologica . Volume VI. Fratelli Centenari, Roma 1903, p. V-IX (Italian).
• Giuseppe Armocida:  COLASANTI, Giuseppe. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26:  Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 551.