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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 1,250,847 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Cesare Lombroso is the 16th most popular physician, the 222nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 224th 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

Among physicians, Cesare Lombroso ranks 16 out of 502. Before him are Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, L. L. Zamenhof, Albert Schweitzer, William Harvey, Li Ching-Yuen, and Cyril of Alexandria. After him are Ignaz Semmelweis, Alois Alzheimer, Michael Servetus, Nestorius, Pedanius Dioscorides, and Jacques Rogge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Cesare Lombroso ranks 6. Before him are Mark Twain, Pope Pius X, Empress Dowager Cixi, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Leopold II of Belgium. After him are Adolf von Baeyer, Andrew Carnegie, César Cui, Henryk Wieniawski, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Samuel Butler. Among people deceased in 1909, Cesare Lombroso ranks 2. Before him is Leopold II of Belgium. After him are Geronimo, Isaac Albéniz, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Francisco Tárrega, Hermann Minkowski, Itō Hirobumi, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Peder Severin Krøyer, 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 222 out of 4,668. Before him are Marie de' Medici (1575), Pliny the Younger (61), Pope Honorius III (1148), Messalina (17), Rita of Cascia (1381), and Diodorus Siculus (-90). After him are Pope Clement X (1590), Pope Boniface V (575), Piero della Francesca (1415), Pope Celestine V (1215), Gerolamo Cardano (1501), and Lucius Verus (130).

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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), Francesco Redi (1626), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Bernardino of Siena (1380), Peter Damian (1007), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723), Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682), and Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501).

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