Claudio Amoedo

Claudio Amoedo Canaveri
Personal details
Born October 30, 1830
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died January 7, 1871
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting place La Recoleta Cemetery
Nationality Argentine
Occupation Physician
Profession medicine

Claudio Juan Amoedo Canaveri (1830-1871) was an Argentine medical doctor.[1] He served as president of the Medical Association of the province of Buenos Aires during the government of Emilio de Castro y Rocha.[2]

Biography

Claudio was born in Buenos Aires, son of Hilario Amoedo Garazatúa and Juana Josefa Canaveri Esparza,[3] belonging to a distinguished family of Galician, Piedmontese and Basque roots. He completed his elementary studies in Colegio Republicano Federal where he learned French and English language in 1845.[4] Later he began his medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires, obtaining his doctorate in medicine.[5]

After graduating he worked as director of a hospital in the town of Quilmes.[6] And time later in 1867, he served as doctor of medicine of the police of the province of Buenos Aires.[7] In 1870, Amoedo integrated the Commission of Public Hygiene of Buenos Aires.[8]

The Amoedo family had been pioneers in medicine in the Río de la Plata, his father Felipe Amoedo had been one of the first apothecaries of the city.[9] And his brother was the prestigious doctor Sinforoso Amoedo, of great action during the yellow fever epidemic.[10]

Claudio Amoedo was married to Ángela Ibarra, belonging to a family of Basque origin. He died tragically (suicide) on January 7, 1871,[11] his brother Sinforoso Amoedo, who witnessed his death,[12] died of yellow fever on April 23 of the same year.

References

  1. ↑ Anales del Museo publico de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
  2. ↑ Pabellón médico: revista científica y profesional
  3. ↑ Bautismos 1820-1833, Inmaculada Concepción
  4. ↑ La enseñanza del inglés en la República Argentina:, Roberto F. Raufet
  5. ↑ Visiones de la gran aldea:, Imp. Ferrari hnos
  6. ↑ El índice cronológico de la historia de Quilmes del Dr. José A. Craviotto, ampliado hasta 1916, Argentina, 1966
  7. ↑ Registro oficial de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province
  8. ↑ Revista médico-quirúrgica, Volume 7, Argentina
  9. ↑ Historia de los médicos y boticarios en el Buenos Aires antiguo, 1536-1871, Lilia Zenequelli
  10. ↑ La peste histórica de 1871:, Nueva Impresora, 1949
  11. ↑ Pabellón médico: revista científica y profesional
  12. ↑ Defunciones 1871, Inmaculada Concepción
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