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Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909)
Lombroso, Cesare (lom-brō’sō). An Italian scientist; born in Venice, Nov. 1835; died at Turin, Oct. 19, 1909. He attained worldwide celebrity as an investigator of pathology, psychiatry, nervous diseases, and allied departments of science. His principal works are: ‘Researches on Cretinism in Lombardy’ (1859); ‘Genius and Insanity’ (1864); ‘Clinical Studies on Mental Diseases’ (1865); ‘Microcephaly and Cretinism’ (1873); ‘Love in Suicide and in Crime’ (1881); ‘The Criminal as Related to Anthropology, Jurisprudence, and Prison Discipline’ (4th ed. 1889); ‘The Man of Genius as Related to Psychiatry’ (1889); ‘Female Criminals’ (1893); ‘Anti-Semitism and the Modern Sciences’ (1894); ‘The Anarchists’ (1894); ‘Crime; its Causes and Remedies’; ‘After Death—What?’ (1908).