Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti

Italian physician

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1822

Place of Birth: Gambarana, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 02-Sep-1876

Profession: scientist, physician, anatomist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti

  • Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (22 June 1822 – 2 October 1876) was born at Gambarana, near Pavia in 1822.
  • A famous friend of Corti's father, Antonio Scarpa, may have kindled his boyhood interest in anatomy and medicine.
  • As a medical student he enrolled first at the University of Pavia.
  • Corti's favorite study there was microanatomy with Bartolomeo Panizza and Mario Rusconi.
  • In 1845, against paternal wishes, Corti moved to Vienna to complete his medical studies and to work in the anatomical institute of Joseph Hirtl.
  • There he received the degree in medicine in 1847 under the supervision of professor Hyrtl, with a thesis on the bloodstream system of a reptile.
  • He was then appointed by Hyrtl to be his Second Prosector.
  • With the outbreak of the 1848 Revolution he left Vienna, and after brief military service in Italy made visits to eminent scientists in Bern, London and Paris.
  • At the beginning of 1850 Corti had received the invitation of the anatomist Albert Kölliker and had moved to Würzburg, where he made friends with Virchow.
  • At the Kölliker Laboratory he began to work on the mammalian auditory system.
  • Corti spent a short time in Utrecht, where he visited Professors Jacobus Schroeder van der Kolk and Pieter Harting.
  • During his stay he learned to use methods to preserve several preparations of the cochlea.
  • From Utrecht he returned to Würzburg to complete his study of at least 200 cochleas of man and different animals.
  • His famous paper, "Recherches sur l'organe de l'ouïe des mammiferes", appeared in 1851 in Kölliker's journal "Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie".
  • In the same year, after the death of his father, he inherited his father's estate and the title "Marchese de San Stefano Belbo" and moved back to Italy.
  • In 1855 Corti married the daughter from a neighboring estate, Maria Bettinzoli.
  • His young wife presented him with a daughter Bianca, and a son Gaspare, but in 1861 she died, leaving him with the responsibility of rearing the children.
  • Unfortunately he was gradually developing arthritis deformans.
  • Corti's last 15 years were further darkened by the inexorable progress of his crippling illness.
  • In 1876, on the second of October, he died at Corvino San Quirico.

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