Portrait
details:
Painted by Edward Caruana Dingli, 1939
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Luigi
Preziosi, Sir Count
Professor
of Ophthalmology
Born: Sliema,
29/07/1888; Died: 30/07/1965.
Education:
Flores
College
(Malta);
University
of Malta
[1904-10];
postgraduate studies in Oxford
and Rome.
Qualifications:
B.Sc. [Malta,
1907]; M.D.
[Malta,
1910]; D.O.
[Oxon, 1920]; Career:
Government Heath Service: During World War I served as medical
officer in
the RAMC; World War II served as Ophthalmic Surgeon and consultant to
the
Services. Appointed Assistant to Ophthalmic Surgeon and subsequently
Ophthalmic
Surgeon [1924]. University
of Malta:
Professor
of Ophthalmology [1924]. Served
on the General Council of the University. Achievements:
Preziosi described his famous ophthalmic operation for glaucoma
published in
the British Journal of Ophthalmology in September 1924, and had the
opportunity
to discuss the surgical technique in several international medical for
a
including the Italian Society of Ophthalmology (Rome, Italy, 1924), the
Florence Congress (1939), and the International Congresses of
Ophthalmology
held in Amsterdam (1929), London (1950) and New York (1954). The
operation was
also discussed at the Irish Ophthalmological Society (1956). He
represented the
Faculty of Medicine in the University Council and served as President
of the
Camera Medica. He was also actively involved in Maltese Politics first
in the interest
of the U.P.M., later in the interests of the National Party until 1949;
elected
Senator in the 1927 legislature; President of Senate [1932]; President
of
National Congress to draft new Constitution [1944], President of
National
Assembly [1945]. Also served as President of the Committee of
Privileges of the
Maltese Nobility [after 1959]. In 1948 was created Knight Bachelor and
in 1956
Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta. After his death was honoured by the erection
of a monument to his memory in the Mall at Floriana.
References:
Preziosi,
the Most Noble Count Prof. Sir
Luigi. Malta
Who’s Who 1965. A Biographical dictionary. Progress Press, Malta, 1965,
p.196; Portraits at the Medical
School.
Maltese
Medical Journal, 1995, VII[1]:p.62; J. Sammut, M. J. Schiavone:
Preziosi,
Sir Luigi. Maltese biographies of the twentieth century [eds.
M.J.
Schiavone; L.J. Scerri]. PIN, Malta,
1997,
p.462-463.
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