Luigi Frari

Life & Legacy

Luigi Frari (Lat. Aloysius, Croat. Lujo) (1813–1898) was a Dalmatian medical doctor and politician from Šibenik, Dalmatia, now Croatia, who served as the chief municipal physician of Šibenik, and also as the mayor and political and social activist of Šibenik, Dalmatia. His special political and social efforts were related to improving the infrastructure and modernizing the city of Šibenik, as well as speaking in favor of preservation of Roman Catholic Diocese of Šibenik in 1872. He also contributed to the collection and preservation of folk proverbs in the Šibenik region. His inaugural dissertation on rabies from 1840 represents an example of conceptions of the disease in the early 19th century, before Louis Pasteur's time.