Racing, Arcangelo

Born on February 8, 1810 in the city of Gravina in Puglia, province of Bari, Kingdom of Naples .

After graduating from the city seminary, from 1827 he studied medicine at the University of Naples ; In 1831 he received a medical degree, but did not work in his specialty, deciding to devote himself to the natural sciences.

At first he became interested in conchology , then he attended lectures on mineralogy and geology by at the University of Naples, where he began to help him in processing the collection of the Royal Mineralogical Museum in Naples. When Tondi died in 1835, his successor at the University Department of Orictognosy Skakki. Fame came to him after the publication of the work “Lettera al sig. D. Carlo Tarantino sui vari testacei Napoletani " (1835). In 1837, Skacca became an assistant at the Museum of Zoology at the University of Naples. And in 1838, the Royal Academy of Sciences and Literature of Naples commissioned him to study the country's geology and minerals, as well as a description of the collection of rocks donated by the Duke of the province of Trapani on the island of Sicily. From 1841 to 1884, Arcangelo Scacci discovered and described 22 new minerals in the vicinity of Vesuvius .

At the same time, in 1842-1891, the scientist was an ordinary professor of mineralogy at the University of Naples. In 1865 he was appointed rector of the university. Having received the professorship in 1842, Skakki became the director of the Royal Mineralogical Museum located in the university building. From 1852 to 1860, he was also a professor of mineralogy at the Neapolitan School of Civil Road Management. He collaborated with the Geological Survey of Italy, since 1880 he headed the Pharmaceutical School in Naples . He was a member of the project to create the Vesuvian Observatory; Vesuvius' eruption observations were summarized in the monograph Relazione dell'incendio accaduto nel Vesuvio nel mese di febbraio del 1850. Seguita dai giornalieri cambiamenti osservati in questo vulcano dal 1840 sin ora (1850). The results of the study of the volcanic region Campania Arcango Scaccchi generalized in his work "La regione vulcanica fluorifera della Campania" (1890).

He died on October 11, 1893 in Naples. The son of Arcangelo Scacca followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a mineralogist and crystallographer, working at the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Naples.

With the creation in 1861 of the Kingdom of Italy , Scacci entered the Senate. He was awarded state awards - three times the Knight of the Order of Saints Mauritius and Lazarus, twice the Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, the Knight of the Order of the Duchy of Savoy .

In 1863, Arcangelo Scacci became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in Rome, whose president was from 1875 until his death in 1893.

Skacca was elected to many academic organizations in Italy, including the Royal Institute of Science, Literature and Art of Milan (1874), the Linchei Academy in Rome (1875); as well as scientific societies, including the Economic Society of the Province of Bari (1835) and the Royal Institute of Science, Literature and Art of Milan (1866). In 1867, he was elected a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, in 1872 - a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Since 1861 he was a member of the Royal Society of Natural Sciences of Göttingen.

Since 1866, the Italian scientist was a full member of the Imperial St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society; in 1890 became his honorary member. At a meeting of the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences on December 1, 1890, Skakki was elected a corresponding member of the academy in the physical category.

• When in February 1891, Italy celebrated the 50th anniversary of the teaching activities of Arcangelo Scacci, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where he was born.
• In Naples, one of the squares of the city is named after the scientist. ^[3]
• He is also named after a small museum of minerals and fossils, a library and a school in Naples, and a lyceum in Bari ^[4] .
• The mineral is named after .

• Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the XVIII-XXI centuries: Geology and mining sciences. / Ans. Editor I. G. Malakhova. 2012, ISBN 978-5-904509-08-8 (electronic version).

• Arcangelo Scacchi (Italian)