Emilio Cornalia
Emilio Cornalia (born July 21, 1824 in Milan , † June 8, 1882 ibid) was an Italian zoologist and paleontologist .
Life
Cornalia first studied law and then medicine in Pavia , but turned there more to the natural sciences and especially to geology (his Laurea dissertation from 1848 was formally in medicine, but the subject was geology). In 1849 he completed his habilitation.
Cornalia taught from 1856 zoology at the Technikum Santa Marta (later Cattaneo) in Milan and from 1863 at the agricultural college. From 1866 to 1882 he was director of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano , after having been deputy director there from 1851. He was succeeded by Antonio Stoppani . He played an important role in the establishment of the Milan Polytechnic , where he taught zoology.
Cornalia studied, among other things, the anatomy of insects, was one of the founders of the Società Entomologica Italiana, and published a monograph on the silk moth (including diseases, which led to an exchange with Louis Pasteur ). He was also consulted on other plant diseases such as phylloxera. Popular scientific works also originate from him.
He wrote the first publication on the fossils from Monte San Giorgio (in the description of the marine reptile Pachypleuria edwardsii in 1854, now Neusticosaurus edwardsii ) and he was the first to correctly classify them in the Triassic instead of the Jurassic. In 1878 he also undertook major excavations there. He traveled extensively in Europe and in 1873/74 to Egypt and the Middle East.
He was long president of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali . From 1875 to 1877 and 1879 to 1881 he was President of the Istituto Lombardo. In 1875 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . In 1858 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1869 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .
Fonts
- Monografia del bombice del gelso, Milan 1856
- Il regno animale elementarmente esposto, Milan 1854
- Il regno minerale elementarmente esposto, Milan 1854
- La natura rappresentata e descritta, Milan 1864
Web links
- Federico di Trocchio, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 29, 1983, Enciclopedia Treccani
- Literature by and about Emilio Cornalia in the bibliographic database WorldCat
References and comments
- ^ Monte San Giorgio, The Pioneers
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter C. Académie des sciences, accessed on October 31, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cornalia, Emilio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian zoologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1882 |
| Place of death | Milan |