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| birth_place = Palermo, Sicily, Italy | |||
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|1|1|1935}} | |||
| death_place = Nairobi, Kenya | |||
| nationality = Italian | |||
| fields = Agricultural science, education, economics | |||
| alma_mater = University of Catania | |||
| known_for = Writings on Silvio Gesell's natural economic order and on logic and language | |||
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'''Sylvano Borruso''' (also written '''Silvano Borruso'''; 1935 – 1 January 2022) was an Italian-born agricultural scientist, teacher and author who lived and worked in Kenya for more than sixty years. Trained as an agronomist, he spent most of his life as a secondary-school teacher in Nairobi and wrote on subjects ranging from logic and linguistics to monetary reform and ecology. | |||
==Biography== | |||
Borruso was born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1935. He took a doctorate in agricultural sciences at the University of Catania and, after briefly lecturing in systematic botany in Italy, began teaching in 1957. | |||
A member of Opus Dei, he was among the first of its members sent to East Africa, arriving in Kenya in September 1960 to help establish the apostolate there. In 1961 he joined the founding staff of Strathmore College in Nairobi, a pioneering non-racial sixth-form college, where he helped design the school grounds and served as its first bursar. He remained associated with Strathmore for the rest of his working life, teaching biology, geography, mathematics, physics, and religion and ethics, and acting as mentor to generations of students. He retired from Strathmore School in 2006 after some forty-three years of secondary-level teaching. | |||
Borruso died in Nairobi on 1 January 2022. A requiem mass was celebrated at Strathmore School on 8 January 2022, followed by burial at Lang'ata Cemetery. | |||
==Work== | |||
Borruso rejected narrow specialisation, and his writing ranged across the natural sciences and the humanities. He was a long-standing advocate of environmental stewardship and of practical, low-input approaches to land use in East Africa, and he contributed articles to the Kenyan press. | |||
His best-known scholarly work concerns the monetary theories of the German-Argentine economist Silvio Gesell. In two studies published by The Edwin Mellen Press in 2014 he argued that money inherited from the ancient world embodies an unresolved contradiction between its role as a medium of exchange and its role as a store of value, and that this contradiction lies at the root of usury and of social disorder. | |||
He also wrote on logic, grammar and linguistics, and produced English translations of works of St Augustine, including the ''Confessions'' and ''De Ordine'' (''On Order''). | |||
==Books== | |||
* ''Establishing a Natural Economic Order Through Free-Land and Free-Money by Silvio Gesell'' (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014) | |||
* ''A History of Usury Viewed from Silvio Gesell's "Natural Economic Order"'' (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014) | |||
* ''In Word in Thought in Deed: Linguistics Rescued and Married to Grammar'' | |||
* ''The Art of Thinking: Chats on Logic'' | |||
* ''On Order'' (translation of St Augustine, ''De Ordine'') | |||
==External links== | |||
* [https://www.archive.strathmore.ac.ke/silvano-borruso1935-2022/ Silvano Borruso (1935–2022)] – Strathmore University memorial notice | |||
* [https://mellenpress.com/author/silvano-borruso/7719/ Silvano Borruso] at The Edwin Mellen Press | |||
[[Category:Scientist|Borruso Sylvano]] | [[Category:Scientist|Borruso Sylvano]] | ||
[[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]] | |||
Latest revision as of 16:21, 20 July 2026
Sylvano Borruso | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1935 Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
| Died | January 1, 2022 (aged 86–87) Nairobi, Kenya |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | University of Catania |
| Known for | Writings on Silvio Gesell's natural economic order and on logic and language |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Agricultural science, education, economics |
Sylvano Borruso (also written Silvano Borruso; 1935 – 1 January 2022) was an Italian-born agricultural scientist, teacher and author who lived and worked in Kenya for more than sixty years. Trained as an agronomist, he spent most of his life as a secondary-school teacher in Nairobi and wrote on subjects ranging from logic and linguistics to monetary reform and ecology.
Biography
Borruso was born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1935. He took a doctorate in agricultural sciences at the University of Catania and, after briefly lecturing in systematic botany in Italy, began teaching in 1957.
A member of Opus Dei, he was among the first of its members sent to East Africa, arriving in Kenya in September 1960 to help establish the apostolate there. In 1961 he joined the founding staff of Strathmore College in Nairobi, a pioneering non-racial sixth-form college, where he helped design the school grounds and served as its first bursar. He remained associated with Strathmore for the rest of his working life, teaching biology, geography, mathematics, physics, and religion and ethics, and acting as mentor to generations of students. He retired from Strathmore School in 2006 after some forty-three years of secondary-level teaching.
Borruso died in Nairobi on 1 January 2022. A requiem mass was celebrated at Strathmore School on 8 January 2022, followed by burial at Lang'ata Cemetery.
Work
Borruso rejected narrow specialisation, and his writing ranged across the natural sciences and the humanities. He was a long-standing advocate of environmental stewardship and of practical, low-input approaches to land use in East Africa, and he contributed articles to the Kenyan press.
His best-known scholarly work concerns the monetary theories of the German-Argentine economist Silvio Gesell. In two studies published by The Edwin Mellen Press in 2014 he argued that money inherited from the ancient world embodies an unresolved contradiction between its role as a medium of exchange and its role as a store of value, and that this contradiction lies at the root of usury and of social disorder.
He also wrote on logic, grammar and linguistics, and produced English translations of works of St Augustine, including the Confessions and De Ordine (On Order).
Books
- Establishing a Natural Economic Order Through Free-Land and Free-Money by Silvio Gesell (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014)
- A History of Usury Viewed from Silvio Gesell's "Natural Economic Order" (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014)
- In Word in Thought in Deed: Linguistics Rescued and Married to Grammar
- The Art of Thinking: Chats on Logic
- On Order (translation of St Augustine, De Ordine)
External links
- Silvano Borruso (1935–2022) – Strathmore University memorial notice
- Silvano Borruso at The Edwin Mellen Press