Domenico Cirillo

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Domenico Cirillo

Domenico Maria Leone Cirillo (born April 10, 1739 in Grumo Nevano , Kingdom of Naples , † October 29, 1799 in Naples (executed)) was an Italian doctor, botanist, entomologist and politician. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Cirillo ".

Monument to Cirillo in Grumo Nevano

Life

Cirillo came from a family of doctors and naturalists and was professor of botany as early as 1760 and of theoretical medicine at the University of Naples from 1777 . He was also professor of obstetrics and physiology at the Ospedale degl'Incurabili and general practitioner for many aristocratic families in Naples. He traveled to England, where he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , and France, and was in contact with scientists such as Carl von Linné . In 1790 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He had a great reputation as a doctor and introduced the smallpox vaccination in Naples and researched venereal diseases.

He played an important role in Naples during the short-lived Parthenopean Republic (President of the Legislative Assembly). After the crackdown, he was hanged in Naples like other Republicans.

Honors

The plant genera Cyrilla L'Hér were named after Cirillo . from the Gesneriaceae family (today counted as Achimenes Pers. ) and probably also Cyrilla Garden from the Cyrillaceae family , Cyrillopsis Kuhlm. from the family of the Ixonanthaceae and the fossil genus Cyrilloxylon Burgh .

Memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Grumo Nevano
Cyrilla racemiflora at the Roraima Tepui in Venezuela

Fonts

  • Virile morali dell'Asino.
  • Ad botanicas institutiones introductio. Naples 1766, new edition 1770.
  • De lue venerea. 1780.
  • De essentialibus nonnullarum plantarum characteribus. 1784.
  • Fundamenta botanicae. 2 volumes, 1785, 1787.
  • Discorsi accademici. 1787, new edition 1799.
  • Tabulae botanicae elementares quatuor priores. 1790.
  • Plantarum rariorum regni Neapolitani fasciculus. 1788.
  • Entomologiae Neapolitanae Specimen Primum. Naples, 1787.
  • Materia medica regni mineralis. 1792.

literature

Web links

Commons : Domenico Cirillo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. bgbm.org
personal data
SURNAME Cirillo, Domenico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cirillo, Domenico Maria Leone (full name); Cirillo (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist, doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Grumo Nevano
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1799
Place of death Naples