Arturo Castiglioni

Arturo Castiglioni (10 April 1874, Trieste – 21 January 1953, Milano) was an Austro-Hungarian Empire-born American medical historian and university professor.

Biography Castiglioni grew up in Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1939, he emigrated to the States and became a professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His brother was Camillo Castiglioni, an Italian-Austrian banker. Castiglioni was a member of the International Society for the History of Medicine.

Literary works Il volto di Ippocrate, 1925 Storia della medicina, 1927 Italian medicine, 1932 The history of tuberculosis, 1933 The renaissance of medicine in Italy, 1934 Incantesimo e magia, 1934 L'orto della sanita, 1935