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Cesare Lombroso 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.
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science · Italian criminologist (1835–1909) · physician · writer · criminologist · psychiatrist · essayist · university teacher · medical examiner · psychologist · anthropologist · also Cesare Lombroso, Ezechia Marco Lombroso, Lombroso
Born 6 November 1835 · Died 19 October 1909 · Q202420
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Doctors in Argentina performed an experimental surgery on serial killer Cayetano Santos Godino, who had brutally murdered four children between 1906 and 1912, when he was a street kid and highly dysfunctional
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Died 1909-10-19.
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“Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.”
A collection of papers on Lombroso was published in Turin as L'opera di Cesare Lombroso nella scienza e nelle sue applicazioni
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Standardizing treatment in mental asylums and codifying procedural admittance for mentally ill criminals
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Travelled to Yasnaya Polyana to meet Leo Tolstoy in hopes of elucidating and providing evidence for his theory of genius reverting or degenerating into insanity
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And read in August of that year by the late nineteenth-century English novelist George Gissing (1857–1903)
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A book which argued that artistic genius was a form of hereditary insanity
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In which he isolated thirteen typical features of the "art of the insane
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Was appointed visiting lecturer at Pavia, and later took charge of the insane asylum at Pesaro in 1871
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Born 1835-11-06.
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