The Man of Genius

by Cesare Lombroso

Overview

Reproduction of the original: The Man of Genius by Cesare Lombroso

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783752410013
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	08/04/2020
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Cesare Lombroso (1835 - 1909) was born in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia from a wealthy Jewish family. A professor of forensic medicine, he rejected the view of the Classical School, whereby crime was a choice made by man as a calculating animal with free will; instead, he posited that the criminal could be identified anthropologically, earning him the soubriquet of the father of criminology and of criminal anthropology. However, his wide-ranging, substantive, and original writings went beyond these subject areas to include studies on genius and insanity, a pioneering examinations of the art of the insane, and, towards the end of his life, mediumship and spiritualism.