Bonaventure, Prof. Enzo Joseph

Professor Enzo Joseph Bonaventure, son of Amma-Pano and Ernoldo-Moshe, was born on December 24, 1891, in the city of Pisa, Italy. For forty years he lived in Florence, where he was professor of psychology. Prof. Bonaventure immigrated to Israel in 1939 and headed the psychology chair at the Hebrew University. Having a military experience (he was a captain in the Italian Artillery Corps in the First World War), he immediately came to the defense of the university buildings. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and when the war broke out, a convoy was sent to Mount Scopus and was ambushed. He died on 13.4.1948, and was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. He left behind an elderly father in Florence, a wife and three sons.