Federico Delpino
Giacomo Giuseppe Federico Delpino (born December 27, 1833 in Chiavari , Liguria , † 1905 in Naples ) was an Italian botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Delpino ".
Live and act
Federico Delpino studied mathematics in Genoa . He made a brief botanical trip to Constantinople and Odessa in 1851 and then entered the administrative field. In 1864 he began to study the flower arrangements of the Asclepiadaceae family and their pollination by insects , and made a number of the most surprising discoveries.
He then examined other plant families in the same direction and, when he was appointed assistant to Filippo Parlatore (1816–1877) in Florence, devoted himself entirely to botany.
In 1871 he received the natural history professorship at the Forest Academy in Vallombrosa , and in 1873 he undertook a circumnavigation of the world on the frigate Giuseppe Garibaldi , but returned to Italy from Brazil in 1874 , where he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Genoa the following year . In 1886 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
His strongly teleological approach was no longer shared in his time.
Delpino has promoted the biological knowledge of plants especially with regard to the flower biology . Today, alongside Hermann Müller , with whom he maintained an intensive exchange, he is considered to be the most important flower ecologist of this time. In this area he was an important correspondent for Charles Darwin . He created a classification of flower types in relation to their pollinators. Many of the terms he coined are still in use today.
Works
- Sugli apparecchi della fecondazione nelle diante antocarpee (Flor. 1867)
- Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogamia nel regno vegetale (1868)
- Sulla darwiniana teoria della pangenesi (Tur. 1869)
- Ulteriori osservazioni e considerazioni sulla dicogamia nel regno vegetale. 2 (IV) Delle piante zoidifile. (1874)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Proctor, Peter Yeo, Andrew Lack: The Natural History of Pollination. , 1996, ISBN 0-88192-352-4
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Federico Delpino at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delpino, Federico |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Delpino, Giacomo Giuseppe Federico (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chiavari , Liguria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1905 |
| Place of death | Naples |