He was trained first by his father, a lawyer. With fifteen it was sent to a Jesuitenkolleg in Reggio di Modena and invited to step the medal. It went however to the university from Bologna, where its related Laura Bassi professor for physics were; usually its scientific impact was attributed to its influence. With it it studied nature philosophy and mathematics; he dedicated himself both to old and modern languages, however soon the study of the jurisprudence gave up and occurred the medal.

Its reputation grew soon, and 1754 he became a professor for logic, Metaphysik and Greek at the university of Reggio and went 1760 to Modena, where he taught with large conscientiousness and success, but dedicated his whole spare time of the natural science. It rejected many offers of other Italian universities and of pc. Petersburg, until it accepted 1768 the offer Maria Theresias on the chair for natural history of the university of Pavia.

He became also a director of the museum, which he enriched with his collections from many journeys along the Mediterranean coasts. 1785 it was invited after Padua, but its sovereign doubled its content, in order to keep it, and permitted him an attendance in the Osmani realm. There it remained nearly one year and made many observations, under which a Kupfermine in Chalki and an iron mine in Principi was mentioned. Its return home equaled triumphalen progress: in Vienna it was received cordially from Joseph II., and as it Pavia reached, it outside of the city gates of the students of the university with applause was welcomed. During the following year the number of its students exceeded five hundreds. Its integrity with the guidance of the museum was placed infrage, but a judicial investigation re-established its honour, even for the satisfaction of its prosecutors. 1788 it visited the Vesuv and the volcanos on the Lipari islands and Sicilies and represented the results of these research in a large work (Viaggi all due Sicilie OD into alcune parti dell'Apennino), which was published four years later. It died at an impact accumulation.

Its untiring employment as a traveler, his fate and luck as collecting tanks, his gift as teachers and commentator and his passion in controversies contributed certainly substantially to justify the unusual fame Spallanzanis among its contemporaries; however it was not missing to it by any means at larger qualities. Its life was coined/shaped of incessant eagerness to analyze nature in each regard and its many and different works carried all together the stamp of an original genius, able, to state and solve problems in all branches of the science. Thus it helped among other things to put the foundations of the modern Vulkanologie and meteorology.

Its most important discoveries are however on the area of the physiology: it wrote valuable papers over the respiration, over the sensory organs of bats, etc., while it made experiments (1768), in order to disprove the occurrence from Urzeugung to, by proving contrary to John Turberville Needham (1713-1781) that microbes cannot develop in organic liquids, if these are abgekocht and kept in hermetically locked containers. Its famous work is Dissertazioni di fisica animale e vegetale (2 volumes, 1780). Therein it interpreted the digesting procedure for the first time; it showed that this no purely mechanical process is chemical for cutting up, but and takes place mainly by working the gastric juice. It led also important research across the fertilization of animals through (1780).

Works

• Dissertazioni di fisica animale e vegetale (1780)
• Viaggi all due Sicilie OD into alcune parti dell' Appenino (1792)

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