Arturo Castiglioni (10 April 1874,

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– 21 January 1953, Milano) was an

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medical historian and university professor.

Biography

Castiglioni grew up in Trieste, Italy. In 1939, he emigrated to the States and became a professor at

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. His brother was

Camillo Castiglioni Camillo Castiglioni (22 October 1879 – 18 December 1957) was an Italian-Austrian Jewish financier and banker, and was the wealthiest man in Central Europe during World War I. Nicknamed "Austrian Stinnes", he was active in aviation's pioneering ...

, an Italian-Austrian banker. Castiglioni was a member of the

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.2001, Franz-Andre Sondervorst, ''Chronique de SIHM''

Literary works

* ''Il volto di Ippocrate'', 1925 * ''Storia della medicina'', 1927 * ''Italian medicine'', 1932 * ''The history of tuberculosis'', 1933 * ''The renaissance of medicine in Italy'', 1934 * ''Incantesimo e magia'', 1934 * ''L'orto della sanita'', 1935

Bibliography

John Farquhar Fulton John Farquhar Fulton (November 1, 1899 – May 29, 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at ...

, "Arturo Castiglioni 1874-1953", ''Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences'', 1953, vol. 8, n. 2, pp. 129–132

References

External links

* Italian medical historians Italian emigrants to the United States American medical historians 1874 births 1952 deaths {{US-med-historian-stub