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'''Cesare Lombroso'''
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=== House Notes ===
1892.11.08 proposed for Hon. Membership<br />death noted in report of the council for 1909: Professor Lombroso was best known as a student of criminology, and had occupied chairs at the University of Pavia, and at Turin. He also was elected an honorary fellow of the Institute in 1892.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Cesare Lombroso (born Ezechia Marco Lombroso; Italian: [ˈtʃɛzare lombˈroso]; 6 November 1835 –19 October 1909), was an Italian criminologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, degeneration theory, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic.<br />
