Luigi Pigorini

Luigi Pigorini (10 January 1842, Fontanellato – 1 April 1925, Padova) was an Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer.

At the age of sixteen years, in 1858, he became an " alunno" or alumnus of the Museo d'Antichità di Parma or Museum of Antiquities of Parma (now [http://www.archeobo.arti.beniculturali.it/parma/note_en.htm Parma Archaeological Museum] ) . He later encountered Pellegrino Strobel , the professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Parma and Gaetano Chierici, director of the Gabinetto di Antichità Patrie di Reggio Emilia or Cabinet of Antiquities of the native land of Reggio Emilia (now Musei Civici di Regio Emilia [http://musei.comune.re.it/museo/museire.nsf/pagine/B91F36D4E3C4526DC1256ECF0055C2E6?OpenDocument] ) and began archaeological research in the territory of Parmesan. In 1863 he began to travel in Switzerlandand Tuscany , and also studied in Rome and Naples.He ran a course in Parma where he resorted to various materials in order to explain the uses and the functions of
prehistoric tools.A few years later after becoming a bachelor of arts in Political and Administrative Sciences he became director of the Museum of Antiquity of Parma.

In 1875 he founded with Chierici and Strobel a paleoethnological journal "Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana" and, in the same year, began working in the Archaeological Director General's office in Rome ( Direzione Generale dei Musei e degli Scavi d'Antichità del Regno a Roma)where he proposed to the Minister of Public education, Bonghi, the foundation of the Museum Preistorico Etnografico of Rome, that was inaugurated in 1876 and which bears his name.For his oustanding contribution to Italian archaeology he was nominated a Senatore a vita in 1912 and was vice president of the Italian Senate in 1919 remaining so until his death in Padova.

Achievements

Pigorini's work with Strobel on the lake-dwelling Terramara is a seminal work of prehistory informed by uniting paleontology, botany, zoology, entomology, palynology, geology, anthropology and archaeology to build a complete picture of these bronze age communities.

Works

Partial list
* with Strobel "Le terremare e le palafitte del Parmense (subtitle) seconda relazione del Prof. P.Strobel and Pigorini" Tipi di G. Bernadoni, Milano (1864) - also in parts in "Atti della Societa italiana di Scienze Naturali (Milan)".
*with Lubbock. J.. Notes on the hut-urns and other objects discovered in an ancient cemetery in the commune of Marino (province of Rome) [read to the Society of Antiquaries 2 April 1868] , "Archaeologia" 42: 103— (1868)
*‘Inchiesta sul Museo di Villa Giulia ’, "Supplemento al Bollettino Ufficiale del Ministero dell’ Istruzione Pubblica 26 (1899) (ed. L. Pigorini), 1107-1142 (1899)
*Pani di rame provenienti dall 'Egeo e scoperti e Serra Ilixi in provinciadi Cagliari. "Bollettino di Paletnologia Italiana" 10: 91-107 (1904).
*A complete list of Pignori's papers in "Bollettino di Paletnologia Italiana" is here [http://www.pigorini.arti.beniculturali.it/Museo/Attivita/Editoria/BPI/1891-1900/1891-1900.html contents]

ources

*Duhn, Friedrich von Rellini, U. Necrologio del prof. L. Pigorini Vorgeschichtliches Jahrbuch, 3:274. Berlin, 1927.
*Brizzi, Bruno [ed.] 1976 "The Pigorini Museum" Rome, Quasar.
*Italian Wikipedia