
AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN OUR HISTORY OF MODERN PSYCHIATRY: Dr. LUIGI MONGERI
Dr. Luigi Mongeri was born in Milan on the 16th of November 1815. After studying philosophy, he received his medical education in the University of Pavia in Lombardy. After settling in Istanbul, he became physician-in-chief of the Suleymaniye Bimarhanesi (Mental Hospital) in 1856. As of this date, the treatment conditions of mental patients changed drastically. Dr. Luigi Mongeri married an English woman named Tecla Taylor on the 4th of June 1859, and had seven children, Federico, Elena, Giuseppe, Mary, Alfredo, Luigi and Giulio from this mariage.


A LIFE JOURNEY FROM ITALY TO ISTANBUL
The life story of architect Giulio Mongeri, from Italy to Istanbul, begins with the departure of Dr. Luigi Mongeri (1815 - 1882), father of Giulio Mongeri, from his country in 1839 due to political problems in Italy. After working in Izmit and Girit, settled in Istanbul in 1850, Dr. Luigi Mongeri started working for Ottoman court during the reign of Abdulmecid, and then played an important role in the birth and institutionalization of modern psychiatry in Turkey. After Dr.Luigi Mongeri’s arrival in Istanbul, both he and his descendants produced important works in the fields of medicine and architecture in Turkey, gaining an influential position in the cultural and artistic life of the time.



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