The
life and the job of the scientist 
Lazzaro Spallanzani
was born in Scandiano (in the province of Reggio Emilia) the 12/01/1729.
Adolescent was destined by the father to the jurisprudence studies; ninth
this study didn't like him, its marks were excellent. He begun professor
of philosophy and literature in 1754, obtains in the 1760 the chair of
physics and mathematics near the college St. Charles in Modena. In 1770
he went to the university of Pavia, where he made very important scientific
discoveries.
In that year he undertook the study of the ' Animaletti' in the infusions,
writing, five later years an important text.
At fifty years
old, he enjoied reputation and international honor, he begun e member
of the Berlin Academy with Frederick the Great,he received from Joseph
the IIth (emperor of Austria) a gold medal, but especially all physiologists
of every country considered him like a master of their discipline. In
the 1796 it came it offered by the superintendent of French Army of Italy,
the natural history chair to "Jardens des Plantes" of Paris,
that Spallanzani refused with the excuse of the advanced age.
Howevere he continued him studies of physiology of the livings until the
last one.
The 12/02/1799 he dead.
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