Giuseppe Gené

Giuseppe Gené

Carlo Giuseppe Gené (born December 7, 1800 in Turbigo , Lombardy , † July 14, 1847 ) was an Italian scientist and author.

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He was born in Turbigo in Lombardy and studied at the University of Pavia. He has published a number of papers on scientific subjects. His main focus was entomology . In 1828 he was appointed lecturer in natural sciences at the university. The following year he traveled to Hungary, from where he returned with a collection of insects. Between 1833 and 1838 he traveled a total of four times to Sardinia to collect insects there too.

In 1830 Giuseppe Géne Franco followed Andrea Bonelli to the chair of zoology and at the same time became director of the Zoological Museum in Turin. Today most of his insect collection is located there. In 1844 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.

The thin-billed gull ( Larus genei ) is named after him. Among other things, Giuseppe Gené is the first to describe the Eleanor's falcon , which he named after the Sardinian regent Eleonora di Arborea , who also laid down provisions for the protection of birds of prey in the Carta de Lógu set of laws that she initiated towards the end of the 14th century.

Publications

• De quibusdam insectis Sardiniae novis aut minus cognitis. (1839)
• Dei pregiudizi popolari intorno agli animali (1869)

literature

• Barbara and Richard Mearns; Biographies for Birdwatchers , ISBN 0-12-487422-3
• Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 190.