Augusto Béguinot
Augusto Béguinot (born October 17, 1875 in Paliano , Province of Frosinone , † January 3, 1940 in Genoa ) was an Italian botanist with the official abbreviation “ Bég. ".
Life
Béguinot studied science in Rome , then taught in Padua , Ferrara , Sassari , Messina , Modena and Genoa . In 1925 he founded the journal Archivio Botanico , of which he was editor until 1939. The content of this magazine was about the systematics of plants , phytogeography (the influence of plants on space) and genetics .
power
The focus of Béguinot's scientific work was on botany and phytogeography of wild plants in Italian and North African areas. He classified undescribed plants in the botanical taxonomy . A total of 228 genera, plant species or subspecies carry his “ Bég. " in the name of.
By 1939 he published articles and wrote books, a total of 194 publications. The University of Pavia compiled a list . In addition, there are unlisted comments on articles by other scientists in magazines that at the time served as a discussion forum.
Fonts (selection)
- Materiali per una flora delle isole Tremiti. Bulletino Soc. Botanica Italiana, 1909, pp. 200-212.
- Flora Padovana , Padua 1909-1914, 764 pages
- La flora , 1912, 51 pages
- Contributo alla flora della Libia (together with Antonio Vaccari ), Rome 1912, 72 pages
- Contributo alla flora delle Isole del Capo Verde , Genoa 1917, 65 pages
- La Botanica , Rome 1920, 116 pages, also in English
- Una importante stazione di Tulipa silvestris L., 1932, 315 pages
- Caratteri fondamentali delle paludi pontine , Florence 1935, 124 pages
literature
- Gino Pollacci: Augusto Béguinot. Estratto dagli Atti dell 'Instituto Botanico dell' Università di Pavia. Series IV, Vol. XII - 1940 (PDF; 9.4 MB) , R. Università di Pavia (Ed.), Pavia 1940, (Italian), digitized copy online, accessed on June 22, 2013
- Enrico Tortonese: Béguinot, Augusto. In Alberto Maria Ghisalberti (ed.), Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Volume 7, Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Rome 1965, (Italian), text online, accessed on June 26, 2013
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Augusto Béguinot at the IPNI
- Short biography with a signed photo at the "Pietro Castelli" Botanical Garden, Messina , accessed on June 26, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gino Pollacci: Augusto Béguinot. Estratto dagli Atti dell 'Instituto Botanico dell' Università di Pavia. Series IV, Vol. XII - 1940 (PDF; 9.4 MB) , R. Università di Pavia (Ed.), Pavia 1940, (Italian), accessed on June 22, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Béguinot, Augusto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bég. (botanical author abbreviation) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paliano , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1940 |
| Place of death | Genoa , Italy |