biography
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Panizzi, Sir Anthony
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originally Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi
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pronunciation:
[paneetsee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1797–1879)
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| biography:
| Bibliographer, born in Brescello, N Italy. An advocate by training, he fled to Liverpool after the 1821 revolution, and in 1828 became professor of Italian at University College London. In 1831 he was appointed assistant librarian, and later chief librarian (1856–66) of the British Museum, where he showed great administrative ability, and undertook a new catalogue. The famous Reading Room in the museum was created from a plan suggested by Panizzi and designed by Sydney Smirke in which the courtyard was converted into a covered reading space (1856–66). |
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