Giuseppe Albini

Giuseppe Albini (27 September 1827 – 18 January 1911) was an Italian physiologist and physician.

Biography Giuseppe Albini was born 27 September 1827 in Milan. Expelled from Pavia for having taken part in the Springtime of the Peoples of 1848, he took part in the Five Days of Milan and the battle of Novara. Following these events, he went to Vienna, where he completed his medical studies and graduated in 1852. He became the student and then assistant of Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, professor of physiology at the University of Vienna.

Works (selection) Ricerche sul veleno della salamandra maculata (1854) Lezioni di embriologia (1867) Trattato delle funzioni riproduttive e d'embriologia (1868) Sull'istruzione superiore e sull'ordinamento degli studj di medicina e di chirurgia, third edition (1882)

Translations G. Hermann Meyer, Trattato di anatomia fisiologica umana (1867)