Pasquale Sfameni (30 October 1868, Torregrotta, Italy – 7 October 1955, Torregrotta, Italy) was an Italian physician and scientist.[1]
Pasquale Sfameni | |
|---|---|
| Rector of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna | |
| In office 1923–1927 | |
| Preceded by | Leone Pesci |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Albini |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 October 1868 Torregrotta, Italy |
| Died | 7 October 1955 (aged 86) Torregrotta, Italy |
| Education | Degree in Medicine |
| Alma mater | University of Bologna |
| Profession | Physician, University professor |
Biography
editBorn in Torregrotta in 1868[2][3] into a bourgeois family, he graduated from the University of Bologna in 1893 with a thesis on artificial and cadaveric alterations of the central and peripheral nervous system.[4][5] He later moved to Pisa where he pursued an academic career, becoming a student of Ermanno Pinzani in specialized studies in obstetrics from 1895 to 1905.[2][3] He then became a professor at the Universities of Perugia, Cagliari, Messina, and Parma.[2][3][4] In 1918, he returned as a full professor to Bologna where he founded the journal Monitore Ostetrico,[2] concurrently becoming the director of the Obstetrics Clinic until 1936.[2][4] From 1923 to 1927, he served as the Rector of the University of Bologna.[3][4][6] He was also a member of the Italian Society for the Progress of Sciences[7] and from 1947 to 1949, of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna.[2] In 1940, together with his wife, he donated all his writings and much of his real estate to the University of Bologna, which used them to establish the Pasquale Sfameni Foundation.[4][8] The foundation awards an international quinquennial prize and several annual scholarships.[8] He returned to his hometown of Torregrotta in 1948, where he died in 1955.[2][4]
A Freemason, he was a member of the Bologna lodge "VIII Agosto" of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite belonging to the Grand Orient of Italy, from which he resigned in 1925.[9]
Major contributions
editPasquale Sfameni is internationally known for his research on pregnancy and childbirth, which led him, in 1922, to the publication of the theory on the Utero-Ovarian Revolution and the active dilation of the uterus.[2][3][4] His studies focused on the female egg cell and the origin and development of the placenta, demonstrating the endocrine nature of the decidua basalis.[2][3] His studies on vesicovaginal fistulae, which he successfully treated for the first time through surgical intervention, are also noteworthy.[3][4] The body of his major works is known in medical literature as the Humoral Hormonal Doctrine of Sfameni.[2][4]
Works
editHonours
edit- Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy – 20 December 1924[4][10]
- Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus[4]
- Order of San Marino[4]
- Commander of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise[4]
References
edit- ^ "Pasquale Sfameni". Archivio Storico (in Italian). 1868-10-30. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bacialli, Luigi. "Biography Pasquale Sfameni" (PDF). archiviostorico.unibo.it. University of Bologna. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g "SFAMENI, Pasquale". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Mariella Di Giovanni (1997). "The figure of Prof. Pasquale Sfameni. Luminary of Torrese origin in the service of science". Torregrotta Municipality. pp. 7–9.
- ^ "Student records: Pasquale Sfameni". archiviostorico.unibo.it. University of Bologna. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ^ "Series of Rectors of the University of Bologna". unibo.it. University of Bologna. Archived from the original on 4 December 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ^ "GENERAL HISTORICAL-CHRONOLOGICAL ALPHABETICAL AND ANALYTICAL INDEX. Works, contributions and managerial tables (1839-2005)" (PDF). sipsinfo.it. Italian Society for the Progress of Sciences. p. 509. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ^ a b "Remembering Pasquale Sfameni, sixty years after his death". University of Bologna. 9 May 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ Elisabetta Cicciola, Ettore Ferrari Grand Master and artist between Risorgimento and Anti-Fascism. A journey through the documents of the Grand Orient of Italy, Mimesis, Milan, 2021, p. 157, 20).
- ^ "Supplemento alla Gazzetta Ufficiale del Regno d'Italia n.224". augusto.agid.gov.it. 26 September 1925. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
Bibliography
edit- Luigi Bacialli. "Brief biography of Pasquale Sfameni" (PDF). archiviostorico.unibo.it. University of Bologna. Bacialli, 1955. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- Paolo Gaifami. "Pasquale Sfameni". treccani.it. Treccani Encyclopedia. Gaifami, 1936. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
