- Angelo Minich
Angelo Minich, a pathologist, was professor of
surgery at theUniversity of Padua . Born inVenice on30 September 1817 , he studied medicine atPadua and atPavia , where he graduated in February 1840; he took a further degree in surgery in Padua a few months later. He then specialised inVienna and worked inGermany ,Belgium andEngland , becoming convinced that the basis of medicine waspathological anatomy .At the end of 1843 he became subsidiary surgeon at the Civil Hospital of Venice, and the following year was appointed surgeon in the city's prisons; subsequently (1845-1847) he obtained a temporary post of theoretical surgery in Padua, after which he returned to France and to Belgium. When the 1848 uprising broke out, the
Daniele Manin revolutionary government in Venice appointed him director of the hospital of Santa Chiara; on 27 August 1850 he became principal surgeon at the Civil Hospital, where he worked and taught until 1884.For a while he was a Town Councillor and worked on the Provincial Council; in 1889 he was appointed Senator. Eventually he was to become President of theIstituto Veneto di Lettere Scienze ed Arti , He died in 1893, leaving money for the construction of thePonte Minich bridge in Venice. [ [http://www.istitutoveneto.it/iv/attivita/minich.htm Angelo MINICH ] ]References
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