Gian Domenico Romagnosi

Gian Domenico Romagnosi [ romaɲɲo: si ] ( born December 13, 1761 Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma, † June 8, 1835 in Milan ) was Italian jurist, economist, philosopher and physicist.

Life

Romagnosi attended from 1775 the Collegium Alberoni and since 1781 the University of Parma, where he graduated in 1786.

In 1802, ie 18 years ago Hans Christian Ørsted, he published the distracting effect of the current on a magnetic needle. His publications were then ignored.

In Italy, it coined the principles of the criminal law of his time. Gian Domenico Romagnosi 1803 was teacher of constitutional law in Parma, 1806 Council in the Ministry of Justice and professor of civil law at Padua, as a result of political persecution in 1824 professor of law at the University of Corfu. However he died in Milan.

In his native city, a monument to him was erected.

From his law and political science writings are noteworthy:

• Genesi del diritto penale (Pavia 1791; 4th edition, Flor 1832.; Genesis of the criminal law of J. D. Romagnosi. From the Italiänischen. By Heinrich Luden, Doctor of the rights and philosophy, private docents to Jena. German by Heinrich Luden, Jena: Bran'schen in the bookstore, 1833-34, 2 vols )

Romagnosi has emerged as a philosopher of the school of French sensualist, pays homage in metaphysical terms naturalism in epistemology but subjective idealism, which goes beyond that. His Opere appeared Florence 1832-35, 19 vols; Milan 1836-45, 15 vols