Edoardo Zavattari

Edoardo Zavattari (21 October 1883, Tortona – 17 February 1972)[1] (born 21 October 1883 in Tortona, in the province of Alexandria, in Piedmont and died on 17 February 1972 in Genoa) was an Italian zoologist who was a director at the Institute of Zoology in the Sapienza University of Rome from 1935 to 1953.[2] He supported fascism and antisemitism on the basis of his ideas from biology and was a signatory to the "Manifesto della Razza".[3]

  1. ^ "Edoardo ZAVATTARI". Accademia delle della Scienze di Torino. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Il periodo di Edoardo Zavattari". Museo di Zoologia. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  3. ^ Cassata, Francesco (2011). Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-century Italy. Central European University Press. pp. 259–262.