Carlo Allioni

Carlo Ludovico Allioni (born September 23, 1728 in Turin ; † July 30, 1804 there ) was an Italian doctor , zoologist , paleontologist and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ All. ".

Live and act

Allioni taught since 1760 as a professor of botany at the University of Turin and directed the Turin Botanical Garden . In 1757 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . On April 6, 1758, Allioni was inducted into the Royal Society .

Fonts (selection)

His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii , a study of the flora in Piedmont , in which he lists 2813 plant species, including 237 previously unknown. In 1766 he published the Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium . Here is a selection from the factory:

Rariorum Pedemontii stirpium. Specimen primum . 1755.
Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis enumeratio methodica . 1757.
Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii . 1785 ( online ).
Auctarium ad Floram pedemontanam… 1789.

Honors

Allioni was a member of numerous academies and learned societies.

The Swedish botanist Carl von Linné named the plant genus Allionia from the family of the miraculous flower plants (Nyctaginaceae) in his honor. The American botanist Per Axel Rydberg , who comes from Sweden, named the genus Allioniella (today assigned to the genus Mirabilis ), also from the miracle flower family, in his honor. Furthermore, the following four individual species are named after him:

The magazine Allionia is also named after him.

literature

Mario Gliozzi: Allioni, Carlo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 2: Albicante – Ammannati. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960, pp. 504-506.

Web links

Publications by Carlo Allioni in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale
Publications about Allioni in the Opac des SBN
Standard entry in the Opac of the SBN
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carlo Allioni at the IPNI
Correspondence between Carlo Allioni and Carl von Linné
Entry to Allioni; Carlo (1725-1804) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London

Individual evidence

↑ The Dizionario biografico degli Italiani also gives September 3rd as an alternative date
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 25.

personal data
SURNAME	Allioni, Carlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Allioni, Carlo Ludovico (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian doctor, zoologist, paleontologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH	Turin
DATE OF DEATH	July 30, 1804
Place of death	Turin

[1] The Dizionario biografico degli Italiani also gives September 3rd as an alternative date

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 25.