scholarly journals First Woman Philosopher with a Doctorate: Elena Cornaro Piscopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Zdeňka Kalnická
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Final Part ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Women Aristocrats ◽  
Women Philosophers ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
Venetian Republic

The study analyses the circumstances under which Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman in the world to earn a Doctor degree in Philosophy, which she received from the University of Padua in 1678. The author presents the broader context of the outstanding accomplishment. She points out that, although universities did not allow women to enrol to study, Elena Cornaro managed to earn a doctorate thanks to several favourable circumstances. Of these, the author emphasises the tradition of intellectual centres at Renaissance courts in Italy, which were led by educated women-aristocrats; the development of the Venetian Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which affected the position of women, particularly those from aristocratic families; the openness of universities, namely the Universities of Padua and Bologna. Special attention is given to the family background, life, and studies of Elena Cornaro. The final part of the paper deals with other women philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Youth Culture Features in the Light of Preferred Role Models and Life Styles

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-174
Author(s):  
Amel Alić ◽  
Haris Cerić ◽  
Sedin Habibović
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
General Data ◽  
The University

Abstract The aim of this research was to determine to what extent different variables describe the style and way of life present within the student population in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this sense, in addition to general data on examinees, gender differences were identified, the assessment of parental dimensions of control and emotion, overall family circumstances, level of empathy, intercultural sensitivity, role models, preferences of lifestyles, everyday habits and resistance and (or) tendencies to depressive, anxiety states and stress. The survey included a sample of 457 examinees, students of undergraduate studies at the University of Zenica and the University of Sarajevo, with a total of 9 faculties and 10 departments covering technical, natural, social sciences and humanities. The obtained data give a broad picture of the everyday life of youth and confirm some previously theoretically and empirically justified theses about the connection of the family background of students, everyday habits, with the level of empathy, intercultural sensitivity and preferences of the role models and lifestyles of the examinees.

scholarly journals Santiago Ramon y Cajal, 1852-1934

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-441 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
University Town ◽  
Severe Punishment ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Member ◽  
Ramón Y Cajal

Santiago Ramon y Cajal, foreign member of the Society, died at his home, Madrid, on October 18, 1934, in his 83rd year. Strength of intellect and character had won him, in face of adverse circumstances, high and international position in the world of science. He had become in his own country a very symbol to the people of cultural revival of the nation. He had passed his early childhood in the mountain village of Petilla, where he was native, on the southern Pyreneean slope. His father practised surgery there among the peasants, himself of peasant stock, a doctor’s boy who had later acquired a barber-surgeon licence. Compact of energy and ambition, his father had by dint of grim economies moved later to Zaragoza, the University town. Little Santiago at school showed precocity. When not yet seven he was scribe for the family during an absence of his father in Madrid. But as he grew older the boy proved headstrong, with likes and dislikes intense and passionate. Thus, his love of watching birds on an occasion kept the countryside scouring for him in vain all night, with morning to discover him half up a precipice beside a martin’s nest where he had waited daybreak unable to get farther up or down. His other passion was to sketch : a sheet of paper made his fingers tingle to draw something—anything ; the mule kicking, the hen sitting, the castle on the height, the toper at the inn. Some of this draughtsmanship is extant and published. His father disapproved it ; he feared it might divert his son from medicine. So it was that the boy was packed off to Jaca, to the College of the Aesculapian Fathers. There Latin was a corner-stone of the instruction. Young Santiago, like young Helmholtz, could not learn by simple memorization ; the Latin teaching given required that. The college discipline was severe. Punishment came and grew relentless—the rod, incarceration, and prison-fare. The lad’s reaction became uncompromising rebellion. So was it that he was discharged, thin and sullen, silent about Jaca save for a rhapsody on the beauty of its valley.

Thomas Neville George, 13 May 1904 - 18 June 1980

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 198-217
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Family Background ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Moral Belief ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Socialist Politics

Thomas Neville George, later renowned as a Carboniferous stratigrapher and palaeontologist and also as a geomorphologist, was born in Morriston, Swansea, on 13 May 1904, being the elder of two children and the only son of Thomas Rupert George (1873-1933) and Elizabeth George (née Evans, 1875-1937). The family background on both sides was dominated by school teaching driven by a deep-seated moral belief in the ability of education to improve and enrich the lives of otherwise impoverished folk. His father, Thomas Rupert George, had attended the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and originally came from Port Eynon. He became a school teacher and eventually headmaster in a Swansea school but much of his time was given to Socialist politics, particularly in organizing the local Trades and Labour Council, of which he was an honorary secretary. Neville’s mother, Elizabeth, was a school teacher from Swansea Training College and for a short time taught her son at his first primary school. She came from a chapel-going family, whereas his father did not, and Neville attended chapel sporadically until he was eight but not thereafter.

Albert Howard and the World as Shropshire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Early Life ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
The West ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
First Job ◽  
Wye College

Albert Howard spent his boyhood in Shropshire county, England. He was educated at Wellington College, the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, London, and St. John’s College, Cambridge, studying under Marshal Ward. He took his first job teaching at Harrison College, Barbados, and then served as Mycologist and Agricultural Lecturer at the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies. Returning to England, he took a position at Wye College experimenting with hops. This chapter looks in more depth at the early life of Albert Howard and traces the influence that this period has upon his later ideas. In addition, the family background of Gabrielle and Louise Mattaei is also described in depth.

scholarly journals Tullio Levi-Civita, 1873-1941

1942 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 151-165 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Political System ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
Mathematical Literature

The death of Tullio Levi-Civita, following within fifteen months on that of Vita Volterra, removes from the roll of foreign members of the Royal Society the last representative of a great school of mathematics. Both of these mathematicians had in the course of active lives contributed greatly to the high reputation enjoyed by Italian mathematics in general, and the school of mathematics in Rome in particular; both had made many contributions which have found a permanent place in mathematical literature, and both ended their days as victims of a political system which destroyed institutions and liberties in which they were firm believers. Levi-Civita was born in Padua on 29 March 1873, the son of Giaccomo Levi-Civita and his wife, Bice Lattis. The family was a wealthy one, well known for its strong liberal traditions. Giaccomo Levi-Civita was a barrister, jurist and politician, and was for many years mayor of Padua, and a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy. As a young man he had served as a volunteer and fought with Garibaldi in the campaign of 1866, and he had played an important part in the Risorgimento. Giaccomo Levi-Civita was anxious that his son should follow in his footsteps as a barrister, but Tullio’s interest in the physical and mathematical sciences was apparent even in early childhood, and when he expressed a wish to follow his own inclinations his father never opposed him; and in later years the son’s eminence in the scientific world was a source of great pride to the father. Consequently, when he completed his classical studies at the Ginnasio-Liceo Tito Livio in his native city at the age of seventeen, Tullio Levi-Civita entered the faculty of science at the university of Padua as a student of mathematics, and four years later he took his degree. Amonst his teachers at the university of Padua were D ’Arcais, Padova, Veronese, and Ricci-Curbastro (known to the scientific world simply as Ricci). The two last-named were the most distinguished, and both had considerable influence on the future career of their brilliant pupil.

scholarly journals Theatrical Plots in a Spectacular Setting

2012 ◽  
Vol VI (2) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Special Group ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
The World ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University

Palazzo del Bo is an impressive historical building that hosts part of the University of Padua. At the Bo, you may walk through the huge Sala dei Quaranta [Room of the Forty], so called because of the portraits of forty famous foreign students, such as Copernicus, who attended courses at this prestigious university. Then, you can stop before the podium from which Galileo Galilei used to teach math and physics between 1592 and 1610. Finally, you may enter the Teatro anatomico [Anatomic theater], the first place in the world where students of medicine could carry out research on dissected bodies: the anatomic table is still there, surrounded by six circular wooden tiers of three hundred seats. This was the spectacular scenario of the international seminar Plot me no plots: theatre in university language teaching (Padua, October 14-15, 2011),1 an inspiring opportunity to compare research findings, methods, and pedagogical perspectives with a very special group of colleagues teaching foreign languages through drama and theater in a number of countries across the world. 2 The materials presented were varied as the audience had the opportunity to listen to lectures, watch clips in several languages from actual play productions, and discuss or practice ...

scholarly journals SOSIALISASI NILAI-NILAI KULTURAL DALAM KELUARGA Studi Perbandingan Sosial-Budaya Bangsa-Bangsa

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamal Syarif
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Central Position ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Socialization ◽  
Primary Agent

This article presents a comparative study of the socialization of values, norms and practices in various communities around the world. The materials of the study are obtained from the results of the socialization in the family in different countries. In most societies in the world, family holds a central position as the primary agent of socialization. Family has a significant role to prepare individuals in the early period of the development of its members. It is expected that family members have an active role in the community they live in. Values, norms and practices embedded in primary socialization are affected by family background involving ethnic, religion, culture and social strata.

In the Beginning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Aminoff
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
And Training

Charles Bell was born in November 1774 in Fountainbridge, a suburb of Edinburgh. The city of Edinburgh at the end of the eighteenth century is described and an account is provided of the history of medical education at the University of Edinburgh and at the several non-university schools in the city. The family background of Charles Bell is discussed, as is his childhood, education, and training as a surgeon and anatomist; his first books as author and illustrator; his relations especially with his brother John, a celebrated surgeon and anatomist; and his departure from Edinburgh in 1804.

scholarly journals The Wilson family farm

SURG Journal ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
Derek Murray
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Rural History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
The University

Tradition versus modernity—and the spaces in between—is a major theme not only in the study, but also in the popular image of Canadian rural history. Our rural ancestors are often portrayed as self-sufficient, independent units. Closed off from market economies and providing everything they need on their own, they are models of an ideal, traditional and long-forgotten way of life. On the other hand, it is also possible that these people were market-oriented to the extent of solely producing staple crops for sale on lucrative foreign markets. I have had the opportunity to examine a rich historical source from the mid-nineteenth-century. The account book from the farm of James Wilson of North Dumfries, Ontario from 1866 to 1869 is one of many sources in the University of Guelph’s rural history archive that offers researchers a provocative glimpse of life in Canada in the past. The majority of this paper is devoted to the analysis of James Wilson’s account book itself and the world it reveals. It s in these spaces—in the worlds of which the Wilson farm is one example—that tradition and modernity become secondary to the mediating and motivating force of the needs of the individual, the family or the group. In the mid-nineteenth century the family was the main unit of economic, social and political agency for many people. James Wilson and his family were involved in local affairs at every level: economic, social, cultural, religious, political, etc. The world in which this family lived contained both traditional and modern elements. It was not the case that they blindly followed the traditions of the past, nor was it the case that they put all their faith in free-market economics or the values of modernity. The Wilson family lived between two extremes, with the needs and desires of the family being always paramount.

scholarly journals Magyar egyetemi hallgatók vállalkozási attitűdjei és az attitűdöket befolyásoló tényezők elemzése a GUESSS-felmérés adatai alapján - Kik is akarnak ténylegesen vállalkozni? (Entrepreneurial attitudes of the Hungarian students and the analysis of the factors influencing attitudes based on the datas of GUESSS survey – Who want to undertake really?)

2013 ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
László Szerb ◽  
Lívia Lukovszki
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
The University

A vállalkozóvá válás meghatározó tényezőinek kutatása szakmai berkekben leginkább a Szent Grál keresésére emlékeztet: már lassan azt sem tudjuk, hogy egyáltalán léteznek-e ilyen tényezők. A kutatást nehezítik a többnyire önbevallásos kérdésekre adott torzított válaszok, a szóba jöhető tényezők számossága és a vállalkozói motivációk heterogenitása a különböző demográfiai karakterisztikákkal rendelkező népesség körében. Az egyetemi hallgatók körében némileg egyszerűbb a vizsgálat, hiszen ez egy relatíve homogén minta. Ugyanakkor itt a leginkább áttételesek a hatások, és ráadásul nem a tényleges vállalkozóvá válás, hanem többnyire csak a szándékok tesztelhetők. A vállalkozóvá válás szándékát Bandura társadalmi megismerés-elmélete, Shapero elmozduláselmélete és az Ajzen-féle tervezett magatartás elmélet alapján felállított koncepcionális modell keretén belül vizsgálják és elemzik a szerzők. Arra keresik a választ, hogy az egyes vállalkozói tulajdonságok, az egyetemi környezeti tényezők és a családi háttér hogyan hatnak a vállalkozóvá válásra. A teszteléshez a 21 országra kiterjedő 2011-es GUESSS-felmérésből a magyar egyetemi/ főiskolai hallgatók 5224-es erősségű mintáját használták fel. A multimoniális regressziós vizsgálat eredményei megerősítik, hogy a vállalkozói tulajdonságok és a családban levő vállalkozó megléte mellett a vállalkozói oktatás is pozitívan befolyásolják a vállalkozásindítási szándékot. A klaszterelemzés rámutatott arra, hogy a vállalkozói szándékok, az erre ható tényezők, továbbá a választott szak és más demográfiai tényezők szempontjából a hallgatók meglehetősen heterogének. _______ The search for the determining factors to become an entrepreneur is something like searching for the Holy Grail: After many decades we do not even know if these factors exist or not. The research is difficult because the questionnaires are self esteem, the potential influential factors are numerous, and the motivations do vary across the different cohorts of population. It is easier to conduct a survey amongst university students since this sample is relatively homogenous. At the same times, the determining factors to become an entrepreneur cannot be really tested; the authors can examine mostly the attitudes and the intentions. The conceptual model of entrepreneurial intentions, developed in the paper, based on Bandura, Shaper and Ajzen. The paper is testing eight hypotheses about the influential factors of entrepreneurial intentions such as entrepreneurial traits, the university environment, and the family background. For testing the hypothesis they use a sample of 5224 Hungarian students from the GUESSS 2011 survey. According to the multinomial regression, entrepreneurial intentions are positively influenced by certain entrepreneurial traits, entrepreneur in the family, and entrepreneurship courses at the higher education institutions. The cluster analysis results underline the heterogeneity of the students in terms of entrepreneurial intentions, gender, and the major field of studies

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