Home / National Book Prize / Cleardo Naudi Historiographic research Cleardo Naudi Cleardo Naudi: The University’s First Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica, A Delphian and Enigmatic Academic Cleardo Naudi, who hailed from a well-connected Maltese family, began his tertiary education at the University of Malta and completed his medical studies at the University of Naples. Naudi went on to further his postgraduate education in London. During the first decades of British rule in Malta, he managed to contact a number of English missionary societies, and did his best to persuade them to establish footholds on the island. When in London, he met and forged important connections and conversances with some of the leading chemists of the day, which at times blossomed into useful friendships. Particularly close was his relationship with the Quaker, William Allen. In the meantime, he occupied the first Chair of Chemistry and Materia Medica at Malta’s University. Buy the book Malta University Press Historiographic research 2025 Roger Ellul-Micallef Roger Ellul-Micallef, M.D. (R.U.M), Ph.D. (Edin), F.R.C.P.E, F.R.C.P., Hon. D.Sc. (Westminster). Hon F.B.P.S, M.O.M. is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Malta. He was the Chairman of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Higher Education and Research (1993-1996), Pro-Rector and later Rector of the University of Malta (1991-2006). He was awarded the rank of Grande Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, an honorary doctorate by the University of Westminster and the grade of Commandeur de L’ Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government. He was also the President of the Malta Historical Society, and is interested in the History of Medicine especially in the development of the Maltese medical tradition. He has made many contributions both to local publications and foreign journals, including a two-volume, 900-page biography of Sir Temi Zammit, and a 400-page account of the University's first Rector, Roberto Ranieri Costaguti. NEED ANY HELP? GET IN TOUCH contact us