Pasquale Adinolfi (medic)

Pasquale Adinolfi (also Paschal Adinolphi , * in the 17th or 18th century, † in the 18th or 19th century) was an Italian physician and personal physician of Pope Clement XIV.

Life

Adinolfi was a doctor in Rome and worked as chamberlain and personal physician of Pope Clement XIV until 1774. During the last months of his pontificate, the Pope believed that members of the Jesuit order wanted to poison him. After his death on September 22nd, 1774 there was the assumption that, since Clemens XIV supposedly wanted to tighten the Jesuit ban with a bull , he was killed the night before it was signed. Pasquale Adinolfi, as his personal physician, carried out the autopsy the very next day , together with the physician Natale Saliceti (1714–1789) and other, in some cases international, doctors, which, as a published result, found no evidence of any external influence. The original of the test result was deposited with the Maggiordomo and Prefect of the Apostolic Palace, Cardinal Giovanni Archinto .

In the following years Adinolfi worked as a professor of chymy at the papal University of Sapienza in Rome.

On December 15, 1773, Paschal Adinolphi was given the academic surname Caesareus II under the matriculation number. 788 accepted as a member of the Leopoldina .

literature

• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 231 (archive.org)
• Natale Saliceti: Expert opinion of D. Saliceti, Medici of the Apostolic Palace and doctor of Fr Clement XIV. Of the cause of the death of the same September 22, 1774 . In: Magazine for the use of states and church history as well as the spiritual constitutional law of Catholic princes with regard to their clergy, Fünfter Theil, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1776, pp. 304–323 digitized

Web links

• Member entry of Paschal Adinolphi at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina