Salvatore Trinchese (4 April 1836 – 11 January 1897) was an Italian

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who specialised in

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Biography

Salvatore Trinchese was born in

Martano Martano (Griko: , translit. ; Salentino: ) is a town and ''comune'' of 9,573 inhabitants in the province of Lecce in Apulia, Italy, from Lecce and from Otranto. It is the biggest town of Grecìa Salentina, an area where some inhabitants, in ...

, a small town in the province of

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, on 4 April 1836. He attended the ''Reale Collegio San Giuseppe'' of

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in Lecce. In 1856, he went to

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to study medicine and surgery. In 1860, he graduated and obtained a scholarship which allowed him to study abroad. Thus, in the same year he moved to Paris, where he worked as a researcher in the prestigious laboratories of

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and

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. During this period, he started his histological studies on the nervous system and on the systematic microscopy on gastropod molluscs. In 1865, he started to teach

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and

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at the

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. Then he taught in

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and

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. In 1886, he became the dean of the University of Naples and, after few years, was nominated as the city councilman. He died of

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in Naples on 11 January 1897.

Works

*''A Francesco Puccinotti'', Pisa, 1860. *''Memoria sulla terminazione periferica dei nervi motori nella serie degli animali'', Genova, 1866. *''Memoria sulla struttura del sistema nervoso dei cefalopodi'', Firenze, 1868. *''Sulla struttura del sistema nervoso dei molluschi gasteropodi'', Pisa, 1871. *''Discorso inaugurale letto nell'universita di Bologna'', Bologna, 1873. *''Note anatomiche intorno ad alcuni Eolididei'', Bologna, 1874. *''Nuove ricerche sull'organizzazione del cervello degli Eolididei'', Bologna, 1875. *''Ricerche anatomiche sul genere ''Govia, Bologna, 1886. *''Ricerche anatomiche sulla ''Flabellina affinis, Bologna, 1887. *''Descrizione del nuovo genere ''Caloria, Bologna, 1888. *''Ricerche anatomiche sulla ''Forestia mirabilis, Bologna, 1889. *''Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei ''Fusi muscolari'': memoria presentata alla R. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, e letta nell'adunanza del 27 aprile'', Bologna, 1890. *''Descrizione del nuovo genere ''Bosellia'': Nota letta alla r. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna nella sessione del 26 aprile 1891'', Bologna, 1891. *''Ricerche sulla formazione delle piastre motrici: Memoria letta alla r. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna nella sessione del 29 novembre 1891'', Bologna, 1892. *''Nuove osservazioni sulla ''Placida viridis'': Memoria letta alla r. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna nella sessione dell'8 gennaio 1893'', Bologna, 1893. *''Protovo e globuli polari dellAmphorina coerulea'': Comunicazione letta alla r. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna nella sessione Delli 27 maggio 1894'', Bologna, 1894. *''Ricerche anatomiche sul ''Phyllobranchus borgnini'' (fr. ): Memoria letta alla r. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna nella sessione del 28 aprile 1895'', Bologna, 1895. *''Ricerche anatomiche sulla ''Hermaea cremoniana'' (tr): Memoria letta alla r. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, nella sessione del 22 marzo 1896'', Bologna, 1896.

References

*Francesco Saverio Monticelli, ''Per l'inaugurazione del monumento a Salvatore Trinchese in Martano di Lecce: discorso pronunziato dal prof. Fr. Sav. Monticelli il 3 novembre 1907'', Napoli, 1909. *Giovanni Paladino, ''Pel professore Salvatore Trinchese: cenno commemorativo'', 1897. *Pati Luceri, ''Omaggio a Salvatore Trinchese'', Bologna, 1988. *Guido Cimino (a cura di), ''Salvatore Trinchese. Opere'', Roma Napoli, 1989. *Paolo Pellegrino - A. Stomeo - P. Protopapa - A. Quarta - P. Mancarella, ''Salvatore Trinchese: scienza e ideologia nella cultura positivistica'', Acropolis, Galatina, 2000 *Carlo Stasi, ''Dizionario Enciclopedico dei Salentini'', Lecce, Grifo, 2018, Vol. II, p. 1081-1082

External links

Monuments and memories of Salvatore Trinchese in Himetop – The History of Medicine Topographical Database
Italian zoologists 1836 births 1897 deaths {{Zoologist-stub