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Cesare Lombroso

1835 - 1909

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Cesare Lombroso ( lom-BROH-soh, US also lawm-; Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare lomˈbroːzo, ˈtʃɛː-, -oːso]; born Ezechia Marco Lombroso; 6 November 1835 – 19 October 1909) was an Italian eugenicist, criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian school of criminology. He is considered the founder of modern criminology by changing the Western notions of individual responsibility. Lombroso rejected the established classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, degeneration theory, psychiatry, and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cesare Lombroso is the 22nd most popular physician (down from 16th in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from Italy (down from 248th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Physician.

Cesare Lombroso is most famous for his theory of the "born criminal." He believed that criminals were born with certain physical traits, such as a long, thin head, large jaw, and sloping forehead.

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Among physicians, Cesare Lombroso ranks 22 out of 726. Before him are William Harvey, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Alan Hodgkin, Pedanius Dioscorides, Nestorius, and Róbert Bárány. After him are Georgius Agricola, Cyril of Alexandria, Michael Servetus, Allvar Gullstrand, Al-Zahrawi, and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Cesare Lombroso ranks 6. Before him are Pope Pius X, Mark Twain, Empress Dowager Cixi, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Leopold II of Belgium. After him are Adolf von Baeyer, Josef Stefan, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, and Demetrius Vikelas. Among people deceased in 1909, Cesare Lombroso ranks 2. Before him is Leopold II of Belgium. After him are Geronimo, Isaac Albéniz, Itō Hirobumi, Hermann Minkowski, Francisco Tárrega, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Peder Severin Krøyer, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, and Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Cesare Lombroso ranks 334 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Liberius (310), Valentinian III (419), Longinus (100), Pope Benedict I (525), Hippolytus of Rome (170), and Toto Cutugno (1943). After him are Pope Silverius (490), Pope Eutychian (300), Ludovico Sforza (1452), Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (1772), Pope Martin I (590), and Umberto II of Italy (1904).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Italy

Among physicians born in Italy, Cesare Lombroso ranks 2. Before him are Florence Nightingale (1820). After him are Camillo Golgi (1843), Marcello Malpighi (1628), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Peter Damian (1007), Francesco Redi (1626), Bernardino of Siena (1380), Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Trota of Salerno (1001), and Andrea Cesalpino (1519).

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