Arturo Donaggio
Sir Arturo Donaggio (11 October 1868 – 8 October 1942) was an Italian physician specialized in psychiatry and professor at University of Turin, Modena and Bologna. Donaggio was a defender and a supporter of the cure for alienated people in mental hospital (he promoted some reforms for asylum legislation) and he was a follower of the positivistic doctrine related to physiology and mental pathology. Biography Early life Arturo Donaggio was born in Falconara Marittima (Ancona), on October 11, 1868, from his parents Girolamo and Lucia Bosi. Career and personal life At the age of 25 he graduated in Medicine at the Modena's Atheneum. He then followed post-graduate training under Professor Augusto Tamburini in the mental hospital of San Lazzaro in Reggio-Emilia, where Donaggio had the opportunity to attend Giulio Vasale’s laboratories, wherein anatomical researches took place. Shortly after obtaining a teaching position in neuropsychiatry in 1901, he replaced Augusto Tamburini as chairman professor at the University of Modena In 1907 he conquered the position as chairman of nervous and mental diseases' departments at the University of Cagliari and only two years later, in 1909, he was awarded to the teaching of psychiatry at the University of Turin, Donaggio was the