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Vinigi Lorenzo Grottanelli (13 August 1912, Avigliana - 30 May 1993) was an Italian ethnologist who worked at the Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography following the Second World War. [1]
Vinigi Grottanelli came from an aristocratic background. His father, Franco Winigisio, (1873-1973) was descended from the Ugurgièri della Berardenga, a Siennese family. [2]
In 1946 Grottanelli joined the Executive Council of the International African Institute.He remained a participant until 1968. [3] In 1969 he was appointed as the first Professor of Ethnology at the Sapienza University of Rome]. [1]
Grottanelli established the Italian Ethnological Mission to Ghana (IEMG) in 1954 which he then led until 1975. [3]
In 1978 a list of Grottanelli's works was published by the Frobenius-Institut in Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde. This covered academic articles from 1936, but excluded newspaper articles. [4]
