Paolo Panceri

Paolo Panceri, photo by da Gasco published in 1878

Paolo Panceri (born August 23, 1833 in Milan , † March 12, 1877 in Naples ) was an Italian anatomist and zoologist .

Life

Paolo Panceri studied medicine at the University of Pavia following family tradition . Among other things, he heard anatomy lectures with Bartolomeo Panizza , which directed his interest to comparative anatomy . This area subsequently became his preferred subject. He received his doctorate in 1856 and was assistant at the chair of zoology and mineralogy in Pavia with Giuseppe Balsamo Crivelli . In 1859 he worked briefly as a doctor at the Milan hospital to treat those injured in the Sardinian War . From 1861 until his death in 1877 he was professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Naples . In 1869 he published a work on the secretion of free sulfuric acid in the saliva of certain sea snails and published a series of anatomical-physiological treatises on the phosphorescence of sea animals in 1870-76 , in which he examined the seat and nature of the glow of certain mussels , jellyfish , sea ​​feathers and others underwent. A trip to Egypt (1872–73) undertaken for health reasons led to studies on the effects of the venom of some snakes and the tarantula spider as well as on the African pygmy people of the Aka . In Italy, Panceri was considered to be one of the most outstanding zoologists of modern times.

literature

• Paolo Panceri . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 12, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 648.
• Giovanni Scillitani:  Panceri, Paolo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 80:  Ottone I-Pansa. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2014.

Web links

• Publications by Paolo Panceri in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
• Standard entry in the Opac of the SBN