biography
pronunciation:
[lombrohsoh]
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| male
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| (1836–1909)
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| biography:
| Founder of the science of criminology, born in Verona, N Italy. After working as an army surgeon, he became professor of mental diseases at Pavia, director of an asylum at Pesaro, and professor of forensic medicine (1876), psychiatry (1896), and criminal anthropology (1906) at Turin. His theory (now discredited) postulated the existence of a criminal type distinguishable from a normal person by physiological and psychological characteristics. |
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