Pasquale Sfameni | |
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Rector of the
Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna | |
In office 1923–1927 | |
Preceded by | Leone Pesci |
Succeeded by | Giuseppe Albini |
Personal details | |
Born | October 30, 1868 Torregrotta, Italy |
Died | October 7, 1955 Torregrotta, Italy | (aged 86)
Education | Degree in Medicine |
Alma mater | University of Bologna |
Profession | Physician, University professor |
Pasquale Sfameni (October 30, 1868, Torregrotta, Italy – October 7, 1955, Torregrotta, Italy) was an Italian physician and scientist. [1]
Born 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]
Pasquale 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]
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 | October 30, 1868 Torregrotta, Italy |
Died | October 7, 1955 Torregrotta, Italy | (aged 86)
Education | Degree in Medicine |
Alma mater | University of Bologna |
Profession | Physician, University professor |
Pasquale Sfameni (October 30, 1868, Torregrotta, Italy – October 7, 1955, Torregrotta, Italy) was an Italian physician and scientist. [1]
Born 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]
Pasquale 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]