Carlo Giuseppe Luigi Bertero

Carlo Giuseppe Luigi Bertero (born October 14, 1789 in Santa Vittoria d'Alba ; † April 1831 , missing at sea) was an Italian doctor, botanist and plant collector. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Bertero ".

Life

Carlo Giuseppe Luigi Bertero was born on October 14, 1789 in St. Vittoria d'Alba to Joseph Bertero and Anna Maria Abrigo. He also had a brother and a sister. When his father died, he was raised by his mother, who also enabled him to attend high school in Alba . His teacher there, Francesco Giuseppe Gardini, philosopher, doctor and physicist, had a strong influence on him.

Bertero studied medicine at the University of Turin and dealt in particular with toxic plants as well as herbal emetics and laxatives from his native Piedmont . This aroused his interest in botany and Bertero studied botany.

For political reasons - Bertero and his friend, the botanist Giovanni Battista Balbis (1765-1831), were suspected to have been involved in the Piemotesischen Revolution - he went to Pavia and then to Lyon .

From 1817 to 1821 he stayed on botanical studies in the West Indies and from 1827 to 1831 on several Pacific islands . Bertero is also known as the descriptor and collector of the plants of Chile . On the return trip from Tahiti to Valparaíso in April 1831, his ship probably sank. Carlo Bertero's fate remains unclear.

Namesake

• The American teacher, ornithologist and botanist Ralph Hoffman (1870-1932) named a cactus, Opuntia berteri , after Bertero.
• The plant genus Berteroa from the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae) is named after Carlo Bertero.
• The following lichens are named after Bertero:
  • Berteroana biatora Mont. (1852)
  • Brigantiaea berteroana (Mont.) Trevis. (1853)
  • Pseudocyphellaria berteroana (Mont.) Redon (1977)
  • Sticta berteroana Mont. (1835)
  • Lecidea berteroana (Mont.) Nyl. (1855)

• The Belgian businessman, adventurer, diplomat and travel writer Jacques-Antoine Moerenhout named Bertero Island, a coral reef in the South Pacific (now Minerve Reef ), after his friend and travel companion Carlo Bertero.
• In Rome , a street is named after Bertero: Via Giuseppe Carlo Bertero
• The city of Alba (Piedmont) dedicated a monument to Bertero and his teacher Francesco Giuseppe Gardini. It is now on Corso Matteotti.

literature

• Isabella Spada Sermonti:  BERTERO, Carlo Giuseppe Luigi. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 9:  Berengario – Biagini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1967.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carlo Giuseppe Luigi Bertero at the IPNI