Pietro Borsieri

Pietro Borsieri (* approx. 1719 in Civezzano ; † approx. 1780 in Milan ) was an Italian doctor in Rome, personal and military doctor for the crew of Cremona .

Life

Pietro Borsieri was born as the eldest son of Francesco Borsieri and Magdalena Pellegrini in Civezzano. He studied medicine in Padua and received his doctorate in 1739. His wife came from the Dall'Avo di Vichperg family.

First he was a doctor at the hospital of St. John Lateran (Ospedale di San Giovanni in Laterano) in Rome, then he received a doctor's position in Vicovaro , later in Tivoli near Rome. This position was too strenuous for him, so he went back to Rome, where he became the personal physician of Prince Santa Croce. This was the imperial envoy to the Republic of Venice . The Prince-Bishop of Gurk in Carinthia, Count Joseph Maria von Thun , offered him the opportunity to travel to Saxony as the personal physician of two of his nephews. After he returned to Trient, he became protomedicus and counselor of Count Leopold Ernst von Firmian , Prince-Bishop of Seckau in Styria, who later became Bishop of Passau . With him he made various trips to Germany, after which he was for over 30 years imperial doctor of the garrison of Cremona, where he was appointed chief medical officer of the Austrian troops in Lombardy. His two younger brothers Francesco Borsieri and Giovanni Battista Borsieri were also doctors.

Works

• Two observations on epilepsy , in: Dall'Armi, Saggi di Medicina, Faenza 1768, ed. by his brother Giovanni Battista Borsieri.

literature

• Otto Rudel : Contributions to the history of medicine in Tyrol , collected for the Etschländer Ärzteblatt, Bozen 1925, p. 232.
• Franz Daxecker: Famous doctors from Trentino: the three Borsieri brothers , Tiroler Almanach, vol. 28, pp. 95–96 1999.
• Franz Daxecker: Medici famosi del Trentino: i tre fratelli Borsieri , in: Almanacco Tirolese, 28esima edizione, pp. 230-232, 1999.
• Giangrisostomo Tovazzi: Biblioteca tirolese , Biblioteca San Bernardino, Volano 2006, pp. 436, 652.