Agostino Gemelli

Who was Agostino Gemelli?

Agostino Gemelli, O.F.M., was an Italian Franciscan friar, physician and psychologist, who was also the founder and first Rector of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan.

Gemelli's Institute of Psychology was the most prominent institution of its kind in Italy. In 1961 he founded a teaching hospital for the Medical School of the University, located in Rome, the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic, which is now named after him. He focused some of his research on the psychology of the workplace.