Achille De Zigno
Achille De Zigno (born January 14, 1813 in Padua , † January 15, 1892 ibid) was an Italian botanist , geologist and paleontologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Zigno ".
De Zigno came from a wealthy family and was tutored by private tutors. His mother was Irish. During stays abroad in England, France and Switzerland, he learned several languages and he became interested in natural sciences as a teenager and came into contact with scientists such as Tomaso Antonio Catullo (1782–1869), who was a professor of natural history in Padua. With Catullo he soon (1847/48) engaged in a scientific discussion about the correct dating of fossils and stratigraphic questions. From 1846 to 1856 he was mayor of Padua. From 1860 to 1866 he represented the province of Veneto in the Council of the Austrian Empire in Vienna and from 1872 to 1885 he was mayor of Vigodarzere , where his family owned land.
At first he dealt with botany ( cryptogams , algae), later, due to deteriorating eyesight, with geology, especially stratigraphy of the province of Veneto, and with paleontology, especially with paleobotany, but also with fossils of fish and other vertebrates of the Eocene from Monte Bolca .
In 1860 he became a member of the Leopoldina and he was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze and the Turin Academy. In 1871 he was president of the Accademia Galileana, from 1876 to 1878 of the Istituto Veneto and in 1885 of the Italian Geological Society.
Under Austrian rule he became a baron and holder of the Order of the Iron Crown and later the Order of Civil Merit of Savoy.
His collection of fossils came to the University of Padua.
Fonts
- Introduzione allo studio della geologia. Tip. A. Sicca, Padova 1843.
- Sulle ossa fossili di rinoceronte trovate in Italia. se, Padova 1855.
- Flora Fossilis - Formationis Oolithicae - Le piante fossili dell'oolite. Volume 1, 1856 to 1868, Volume 2, 1873 to 1885, Ed. Seminario, Padua.
- Dichopteris: genus novum filicum fossilium. Venice: Antonelli 1865.
- Catalogo ragionato dei pesci fossili del calcare eoceno di M. Bolca e M. Postale. Venice: Grimaedo 1874.
literature
- Pietro Corsi: De Zigno, Achille. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 39: Deodato-DiFalco. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1991.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Zigno, Achilles Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1891, p. 99 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- De Zigno, Achille. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Zigno, Achille |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian botanist, geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Padua |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1892 |
| Place of death | Padua |