Luigi Devoto (1864-1936)
A pupil of Maragliano’s school at the Genoa University, Luigi Devoto obtains the degree in medicine and surgery in 1888. Qualified in medical pathology and preparatory medical clinic university teaching, he is appointed a professor at the Pavia University in 1899 where he establishes a clinical department for the study of pellagra. He founds the journal “Il Lavoro” then called “La Medicina del Lavoro” and is the Director of the “Italian Archives of Medical Clinics” and the “Chronicle of Medical Clinics of Genoa”.
In 1906 in Milan he is the promoter jointly with Malachia del Cristoforis of the 1st International Congress on Occupational Diseases and the International Commission for Occupational Diseases. Later Luigi Devoto is appointed full Professor of occupational disease clinics at “Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento” (Milan, 1908) and then Director of the “Clinica del Lavoro” of Milan (1910).