How to Pronounce Augustus Granville
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Oct 07, 1783 Milan, Lombardy, Italy Died on 03 Mar 1872 (aged 88)
Italian physician and writer
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About Augustus Granville
- Augustus Bozzi Granville MD, FRS (born Augusto Bozzi, 7 October 1783 – 3 March 1872) was a physician, writer, and Italian patriot.Born in Milan, he studied medicine before leaving to avoid being enlisted in Napoleon's army.
- After practicing medicine in Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal, he joined the British Navy and sailed to the West Indies.
- There he learned English and married an Englishwoman.
- He later moved to London, where he practiced as a physician and writer.
- He is credited with carrying out the first medical autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian Mummy which he described to the Royal Society of London in 1825.
