Pietro Stoffella d'Alta Rupe

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Pietro Stoffela d 'Alta Rupe, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1852

Pietro Stoffella d'Alta Rupe , also Peter Stoffella d'Alta Rupe (born March 9, 1795 in Raossi , Vallarsa , Welschtirol ; † April 28, 1871 in Vienna ) was an Austrian gynecologist .

Life

His father Pietro Giuseppe Stoffella was a landowner, timber merchant and mayor of the valley municipality of Vallarsa. Pietro attended the grammar school in Rovereto , the Lyceum in Trento , first enrolled in the academic year 1815/16 at the Philosophical Faculty and then from the academic year 1816/17 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna. He received his doctorate in medicine on August 17, 1822 with the dissertation De morbo nuncupato pellagra , printed in Como in 1827. His dissertation on Pellagra was the first scientific work in southern Tyrol on this deficiency disease, which is widespread in his homeland.

Pietro Stoffella gained a reputation as a good gynecologist and was appointed to the ducal court in Modena; he refused an appointment as professor at the medical clinic there. In 1850 he became consiliarius of Empress Maria Anna of Savoy , wife of Emperor Ferdinand I. He received several high medals, in 1863 the Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd class. On December 5, 1863, with the letter of nobility from Emperor Franz Joseph I, he was raised to the hereditary knighthood with the predicate d'Alta Rupe . He was the father of Emil Stoffella .

Works

  • Dissertatio de morbo nuncupato pellagra , Como 1827.

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Stoffela von Alta Rupe, Peter . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, p. 127 ( digitized version ).
  • Naturalisti, medici e tecnici del Trentino, ed.Bonomi, Trient 1930, p. 130.
  • Vinzenz Gasser, 1st Biographical-Literary Writer's Lexicon of Tyrol, Vol. 4, pp. 27–29, manuscript, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, library, W 5525.
  • Vienna University Archives, Med. 11, No. 1., 1816–1838. Doctor col. Faculty (Album facultatis medicae Vindobonensis 1816), Med. 56.1.
  • Franz Daxecker, Die Tiroler Gelehrtenfamilie Stoffella, In: Tiroler Heimatblätter, 2002, pp. 44–48.
  • Italo Prosser: Guido de Probizer (1849–1929) e la lotta alla pellagra In: Marcello Bonazza: I buoni ingegni della patria: l'Accademia, la cultura e la città nelle biografie di alcuni agiati tra Settecento e Novecento , Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati , Rovereto 2002.
  • Hugo Daniel Stoffella, Review, In: Der Schlern 77, 2003, p. 126.
  • F. Daxecker - Ch. Gruber:  Stoffella d'Alta Rupe, Peter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 299.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Italo Prosser: Guido de Probizer (1849-1929) e la lotta alla pellagra p. 264
personal data
SURNAME Stoffella d'Alta Rupe, Pietro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoffella d'Alta Rupe, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Raossi , Vallarsa , Welschtirol
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1871
Place of death Vienna