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Ermenegildo Rotondi
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was born at Villastanza (Milan) in 1845. Rotondi graduated in Civil Engineering at the Superior Technical Institute of Milan (1869) and soon later he was appointed as an assistant to the chair of Farming Chemistry of the annexed Farming Experimental Station. Here he made analyses of farming raw materials and products.
In short Rotondi started to devote to Applied Chemistry. In 1876 he won a public competition as a director of the Royal Etnologic Station in Asti, unique institute in this kind existing in Italy; three years later he was called to Turin to teach at the chair of Technologic Chemistry at the Royal Industrial Museum.
The Ministries of Finance and Agriculture entrusted him with important studies on new industrial processes and customs issues, whereas the Government wanted him into the Committee for studying the reformation of customs tariffs and duties on chemical products (1887).
Up to 1910, year in which he retired from teaching, Rotondi got the chair of Technological Chemistry at the Royal Industrial Museum. He was nominated as emeritus professor at the Politecnico di Torino.
Since a few years, Rotondi went to Verona where he died on 8th June 1915.
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