Luigi Frari

Who was Luigi Frari?

Luigi Frari was the Chief Municipal Physician and 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 Diocese of Šibenik in 1872. He also contributed to collecting and preserving of people's proverbs in region of Šibenik. His inaugural dissertation on rabies from 1840 represents an expample of conceptions of that disease in first half of 19th century, before Louis Pasteur's time.