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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 criminal anthropology 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cesare Lombroso has received more than 1,331,210 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Cesare Lombroso is the 16th most popular physician, the 248th most popular biography from Italy (down from 221st 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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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Cesare Lombroso ranks 16 out of 726. Before him are Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Andreas Vesalius, Albert Schweitzer, William Harvey, Ignaz Semmelweis, and Michael Servetus. After him are Cyril of Alexandria, Alois Alzheimer, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Nestorius, Pedanius Dioscorides, and Georgius Agricola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Cesare Lombroso ranks 6. Before him are Mark Twain, Leopold II of Belgium, Empress Dowager Cixi, Pope Pius X, and Camille Saint-Saëns. After him are Adolf von Baeyer, Andrew Carnegie, César Cui, Samuel Butler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Henryk Wieniawski. Among people deceased in 1909, Cesare Lombroso ranks 2. Before him is Leopold II of Belgium. After him are Geronimo, Itō Hirobumi, Isaac Albéniz, Hermann Minkowski, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Francisco Tárrega, Peder Severin Krøyer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Cesare Lombroso ranks 248 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Nicholas V (1397), Pope Innocent XIII (1655), Pope Pelagius II (520), Pliny the Younger (61), Pope Alexander VIII (1610), and Pope Leo I (390). After him are Pope John XV (1000), Diodorus Siculus (-90), Cimabue (1240), Pope John XIX (975), Luigi Pirandello (1867), and Padre Pio (1887).

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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), Francesco Redi (1626), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Peter Damian (1007), Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723), Bernardino of Siena (1380), Trota of Salerno (1001), and Andrea Cesalpino (1519).

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