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Giovanni Mingazzini
Italian physician, born February 15, 1859, Ancona; died December 3, 1929.
Associated eponyms:
Mingazzini's field
The area in front of the left lentiform nucleus, where fibres from Broca’s area and the corresponding area in the contralateral hemisphee join.
Mingazzini's paresis
Hemiparesis lentiformis Mingazzini.
Mingazzini's test
A test to reveal a paresis in a lower member.
Biography:
Giovanni Mingazzini studied in Rome and obtained his doctorate there in 1883. After studying under Jacob Moleschott (822-1893), his favourite teacher, at the Istituto di Fisiologia in Rome, he spent several years as an assistant in anatomy under Francesco Todaro (1839-1918). During this period he became particularly interested in the central nervous system. After his years with Todaro he he spent a period with Johan Bernhard Aloys von Gudden (1824-1929) in Munich.
He was habilitated for anatomy in 1889, in 1891 became head of the pathological-anatomical laboratory at the Manicomio di S. Marco della Pietè. 1893 he became Dozent in neuropathology and psychiatry, and in 1895 he was appointed to the coveted position of professor of neurology and psychiatry at the Scuola di Neuropatologia at the University of Rome, a post keenly sought after by De Sanctis as well.
In 1921, following the death of Augusto Tamburini, he also became director of the Ospedale Psichiatrico, the clinic of mental and nervous diseases of Rome. It was here that he founded the laboratory of pathological anatomy, a serological department, a pathological-anatomical museum, a radiological station, amd eventually a surgical department, making it into a model clinic.
As a person, Mingaazzini was high-strung, easily upset, and volatile, as well as given to a heary round og oaths when the occasion demanded. He was not on speaking terms with Sante de Sanctis (1862-1935) or Ottorini Rossi (1877-1936) in the later years of his life. In his private life he was a man of the world. Possessing the proverbial professor’s absentmindedness he would go to the opera with his wife and return home alone, having forgotten that he escorted her there.
Mingazzini, a liberal of the Garibaldi type, refused to sign the Fascist oath, and plans were on for to have him transferred to Sardinia. Mussolini is said to have interceded: ”Leave the professor alone, let him study his brains.”
Mingazzini’s wife was German, and he was a Germanophile so far as science went. In Rome, stories about Mingazzini filtered down to the man in the street and his name became part of the vernacular. Altschul relates that he often hear the exclamation, ”Go to Mingazzini” in lieu of ”Man, you are crazy.”
His epitaph was written by one of his pupils: Labor et gloria vita fuit, mors requies.
- Casimiro Frank:
Giovanni Mingazzini und seine Schule.
Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, Berlin, December 1930, 92 (1): 1-7.
- W. Weygandt:
Zum Andenken an Giovanni Mingazzini.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde, Berlin, 1930, 112: 4-6, 161-164.
- Armando Ferraro (1896-1982):
The Founders of Neurology. Compiled and edited by Webb Haymaker and Francis Schiller.
Springfield, Illinois, Charles C. Thomas. 2nd edition. 1970.
- Peter J. Koehler:
The Barré and Mingazzini tests.
In : Peter J. Koehler, G. W. Bruyn, John Pearce: Neurological Eponyms. Oxford University Press US, 2000: 119-126.
Bibliography:
- Manuale di anatomia degli organi nervosi centrali dell’ uomo. Rome, 1889.
- Il cervello in relazione con i fenomeni psichici. Torino : Fratelli Bocca, 1895.
- La paralisi recidivante del nervo oculomotorio. Rome, 1897.
- Beitrag zum klinisch-anatomischen Studium der Mikrocephalie.
Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, Berlin, 1900, 7 (6): 450-471.
- Fernere Beiträge zum Studium der Lues cerebralis praecox et maligna.
Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, Berlin, 1902, 11 (3): 161-166.
- Perizia Psichiatrica. 1904. Paperback edition in 2009.
By C. Bonfigli, Giovanni Mingazzini and F. Montesano.
- Lezioni de neuropatologia. Rome, 1905.
- Klinischer und pathologisch-anatomischer Beitrag zum Studium der Kleinhirnatrophien der Menschen.
Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, Berlin, 1906, 18 (1): 76-86.
- Über die motorische Afasie. 1907.
- Lezione di anatomia clinica dei centri nervosi.
Torino : Unione Tipografico-editrice, 1908. 2nd edition 1913.
- Sur quelques ”petits signes” des parésies organiques.
Revue neurologique, Paris, 1913, 20: 469-473.
- Alcuni ”picoli segni” delle paresi organiche.
La Riforma Medica, Napoli, 1914, 27: 78.
- Saggi di perizie psichiatriche ad uso dei medici e dei giure consulti.
Torino, 1908.
- Trattato di anatomia clinica dei centri nervosi.
Torino : Unione Tipografico-editrice, 1913.
- Ueber den gegenwärtigen Stand unserer Kenntnis der Aphasielehre.
Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, Berlin, 1915, 37 (3): 184-197.
- Der Balken. Eine anatomische, physio-pathologische uind klinische Studie. Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Berlin, 1922, Heft 28.
- Le afasie. In Coll. Bardi di actualità della medicina. Rome, 1923.
- Nervengewebe; das periphere Nervensystem, das Zentralnervensystem.
Bearbeitet von Max Bielschowsky, Siegfried Thomas Bok, Richard Greving, Alfons Jakob, Giovanni Mingazzini, Philipp Stöhr, C. Vogt, Oskar Vogt. 1928, 10, 1093 pages. 880 illustrations, partly in colour.
- Medulla oblongata und Brücke, Mittelhirn. In: Handbuch der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen, Berlin, 1928, volume 4.1.
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