26 Facts About Leonardo Bianchi

Leonardo Bianchi's work contributed to the very first known handbook of neurological semiology and examination in Italy.

Leonardo Bianchi was born in the small Italian town San Bartolomeo in Galdo on April 5,1848.

Leonardo Bianchi was the son of Vincenzo, a pharmacist, and chemist, and Alessia Longo.

Leonardo Bianchi completed his secondary and high school education in Benevento and graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Naples in January 1871.

Leonardo Bianchi delved into various scientific and medical topics, and in 1876 he received a teaching degree in electrotherapy, medical pathology, and medical clinic at the University of Naples.

From 1879 to 1881, Bianchi was appointed professor of the medical clinic at the University of Cagliari, where he worked with the Director of the Clinic of Nervous and Mental disease, Giuseppe Buonomo, at the Royal Asylum of S Francesco di Sales.

Leonardo Bianchi eventually served as a professor of psychiatry and neuropathology at the Universities of Palermo and Naples from 1888 to 1923.

Leonardo Bianchi's manual was the first handbook to fully describe neurological signs and symptoms and gave, in detail, the workup for neurological examination.

Leonardo Bianchi was re-elected again as deputy for Montesarchio in 1897, where he was an activist for school and cultural reform.

Leonardo Bianchi advocated for regulations of prostitution, especially in protecting minors as well as advocating for prison reform.

On March 28,1905, Leonardo Bianchi was appointed to lead the Minister Department of Public Education by the King of Italy, which was presided over by Alessandro Fortis.

Leonardo Bianchi created the chair of experimental psychology and established each chair in all faculties and universities that had a literature and philosophy department.

Leonardo Bianchi created the chair of occupational diseases in Milan and the chair of criminal anthropology in Turin.

Leonardo Bianchi advocated for the construction of a railway that would connect Naples to Apulia and Molise regions all the way to the mountain areas of Samnite Apennines.

Leonardo Bianchi worked with the Italian government to create policies that would help the fight against malaria, alcoholism, and syphilis.

Leonardo Bianchi's efforts were successful in eradicating malaria from most Italian territories.

In 1916, when Paolo Boselli became the prime minister of Italy, Leonardo Bianchi was appointed to delegate social security and mental health reform.

Leonardo Bianchi died on February 13,1927, during a conference at the University of Naples from complications due to angina pectoris.

Leonardo Bianchi is remembered for his studies and experiments of the frontal lobe.

Leonardo Bianchi concluded from his experiments that the frontal lobe had more functionality than previously believed.

Leonardo Bianchi described the lobe as the center of coordination and fusion of the incoming and outgoing products of the sensory and motor areas of the cortex.

Leonardo Bianchi's research was the first to describe frontal lobe syndrome, which helped to gather him fame in the academic world of Europe and the USA.

In 1904, Leonardo Bianchi published one of his most famous publications titled the Treatise on Psychiatry which became a universal reference for psychiatry.

Leonardo Bianchi's publications had worldwide fame in the psychiatry field.

Leonardo Bianchi's publications were translated into many languages, such as English.

Leonardo Bianchi was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize of Medicine between 1910 and 1926.