Lamberto Loria

Lamberto Loria (12 February 1855 – 4 April 1913) was an Italian ethnographer, naturalist and explorer.

Biography Born in Alexandria from a Jewish family, after the death of his mother Clara, he returned with his father Marco in Italy, in Pisa. Here he graduated in 1881 in mathematics. Then he approached the Italian Society of Anthropology and Ethnology founded in Florence by Paolo Mantegazza (1870), becoming interested to the ethno-anthropological studies.

In 1883 he visited Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, reaching to the Turkestan, places where he collected numerous items of ethnographic interest. In 1886, he left for New Guinea together with Elio Modigliani, but for health reasons he just stood briefly in India. Then he visited the upper Egypt going up the Nile to the First Cataract. and visited the Trobriand Islands. In 1905 he made one last short trip to Eritrea. a skink (Sphenomorphus loriae), the common worm-eating snake (Toxicocalamus loriae), Loria's satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae), the large tree mouse (Pogonomys loriae), two subspecies of birds (Ptilorrhoa leucosticta loriae, Pitta erythrogaster loriae), and others.

Works Lettera al prof. P. Mantegazza, in Arch. per l'antropologia e l'etnologia, XIV (1884), pp. 414–418; Dall'interno della Nuova Guinea. Lettera del dott. Lamberto Loria., in Boll. della Soc. geografica italiana, s. 3, IV (1891), pp. 905–911; I viaggi del dott. Lamberto Loria alla Nuova Guinea, ibid., X (1897), pp. 156–161; Atti del Congresso coloniale italiano in Asmara, ( 1905, a cura di C. Rossetti, Roma 1906, II, pp. 34, 52, 98, 104, 124, 132, 159; Sulla raccolta di materiali per la etnografia italiana, Firenze 1906; Per la etnografia italiana. Del modo di promuovere gli studi di etnografia italiana, Roma 1910; Atti del I Congresso di etnografia italiana, Roma( 1911, Perugia 1912, pp. 17–20; Due parole di programma, in Lares, I (1912), pp. 9–24; L'Etnografia, strumento di politica interna e coloniale, ibid., pp. 73–79.