Girolamo Caruso

Girolamo Caruso (1842 to 1923) was an Italian agronomist, university teacher and scientist, born in Alcamo in the province of Trapani and dying in Pisa. He graduated in agriculture at the University of Naples in 1861, taught at the agrarian provincial school of Corleone, which he directed until 1867, and in 1871 became teacher of agronomy and director of the Agrarian Institute at the University of Pisa, which under his guidance became one of the most important Italian institutes in its field. In 1872 he founded the Agrarian Comitium of Pisa, and in 1875 he founded the magazine L'agricoltura italiana. His manual Agronomy, published in 1898, was used for many years in Italian universities, and he was among the first to test chemical fertilisation, first on wheat.