Carlo De Stefani

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Carlo De Stefani (born May 9, 1851 in Padua , † November 12, 1924 in Florence ) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist.

After graduating from school in Livorno , where the family had moved after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy , Stefani studied law in Pisa with the Laurea degree in 1870 with a dissertation on political economy. He became professor of statistics and economics in Siena, but also began to study geology and palaeontology, first in the Apuan Alps (from which a geological map was created, which he presented at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878), then in Calabria . From 1879 to 1882 he was involved in a violent controversy with the official compilers of the geological map of the Apuan Alps, which he accused of poor work. This made him partially unpopular among Italian geologists (and alienated him from his teacher Giuseppe Meneghini ), but also gave him support. From 1882 he worked with the geologist Antonio Stoppani at the Institute for Higher Studies in Florence, whose successor he became professor of geology and geography in 1885. In Florence he also directed the Geological Museum.

Extensive work on stratigraphy, tectonics, physical geography and paleontology comes from him. Among other things, he dealt with Tertiary molluscs in Italy, the fossil flora of the Permian and Carboniferous Tuscany (his botanical abbreviation is " Stefani "), the carboniferous fossils from Elba, chalk fossils from the Apennines and Libya. He and his students were pioneers in geological exploration of the Balkans.

He was a member of the Società Geografica Italiana , the Accademia dei Lincei (1903), the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze , the Accademia dei Georgofili and the Belgian Geological Society. He was a co-founder of the Italian Malacological Society (1874) and the Italian Geological Society, of which he was President in 1896. From 1913 to 1914 he was President of the Italian Anthropological Society.

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SURNAME De Stefani, Carlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Stéfani, Carlo; Stefani (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1924
Place of death Florence