Luigi Pigorini

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Luigi Pigorini

Luigi Pigorini (born January 10, 1842 in Fontanellato ; died April 1, 1925 in Padua ) was an Italian paleoethnologist , ethnographer , archaeologist and senator for life.

Life

Luigi Pigorini began in 1861 under the direction of Pellegrino Strobel (1821–1895), professor of natural sciences at the University of Parma , with archaeological research in the area of Parma . Previously, at the age of 16, he was an alumnus at the Museo d'Antichità di Parma . His “traveling years” from 1863 onwards took him to Switzerland , Tuscany and on to Rome and Naples . At the University of Parma, he obtained a laureate in political and administrative sciences. He was then employed by Michele Lopez (1795–1879) at the Museo d'Antichità di Parma in 1867 , but took over the management of the museum in the same year after Lopez 'resignation.

In 1870 he was appointed head of department in the general management of the Musei e Scavi d'antichità in Rome. There he worked as Spiritus Rector for the establishment of a museum dedicated to the development of civilization on Italian soil. As a prehistoric-ethnographic museum, it was inaugurated next to the old Museo Kircheriano in 1876 by the then Minister of Education Ruggero Bonghi . Both museums were run under Pigorini's leadership as Musei Preistorico Etnografico e Kircheriano and were the center both for the coordination and implementation of the excavations and the dissemination of the resulting results in the field of prehistoric archeology in Italy. After his death it was renamed the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini" in his honor.

As early as 1875, Pigorini founded, together with Strobel and the ethnologist Gaetano Chierici (1819–1886), the Bullettino di Paletnologia italiana , the first Italian journal on prehistory and one of the first European journals in this field of science. In 1876 he was appointed associate professor to the newly established, first Italian chair for palaeethnology at the University of La Sapienza in Rome, which was converted into a full professorship in 1890. In the nearly four decades of his teaching activity - on January 10, 1917, he retired - Pigorini trained generations of Italian archaeologists and supported countless scientific projects in the field of Italian archeology as a source of ideas and promoter.

For his services, Luigi Pigorini was appointed Senator for life in 1912, and from 1919 he was Vice President of the Italian Senate.

Memberships and honors (selection)

medal

Fonts

A comprehensive bibliography on the more than 300 titles of Luigi Pigorini's work can be found in: Arduino Colasanti (Ed.): Un maestro di scienza e d'italianità. In onore di L. Pigorini (1842-1925). Cinquantenario del R. Museo preistorico-etnografico "Luigi Pigorini". Direzione generale per le antichità e belle arti, Rome 1925.

literature

  • Ugo Antonielli: Pigorini, Luigi . In: Enciclopedia Italiana. Vol. 21. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1935.
  • Pigorini, Luigi . In: L'Unificazione. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Pigorini, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian paleoethnologist, ethnographer, archaeologist and senator
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontanellato
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1925
Place of death Padua