Filippo Parlatore

Filippo Parlatore (born August 8, 1816 in Palermo , † September 9, 1877 in Florence ) was a Sicilian- Italian botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Parl. "

Life

Parlatore, who was interested in botany in his youth, studied medicine in Palermo, where he was assistant professor of anatomy (he published on the anatomy of the retina) and also practiced for a short time during the cholera epidemic in Palermo in 1837, but then turned entirely to botany to. In Palermo he was a student of Vincenzo Tineo (1791-1856), director of the Botanical Garden, and Antonino Bivona Bernardi (1770-1837), a student of Tineo who was a victim of the cholera epidemic. He traveled extensively to study flora and to exchange ideas with scientists in Italy, Switzerland, France (where he met Philip Barker Webb , Adolphe Brongniart and Alexander von Humboldt in Paris ) and England, where he visited the Botanical Garden in Kew . In 1841, at the Congress of Italian Naturalists in Florence, he proposed the creation of a national herbarium in Florence, which was supported by Grand Duke Leopold , who made him professor of botany at the University of Florence and head of the Botanical Garden (Giardino dei Semplici). From 1868 he was director of the Natural History Museum in Florence. Parlatores herbarium also came to the museum. Parlatore studied the flora in the Mont-Blanc massif in 1849 and in Lapland and Finland in 1851. Since 1867 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He published on various areas of botany (including palaeobotany, plant geography, plant physiology and the history of botany) and published a flora of Palermo and later of all of Italy. In 1844 he founded the Giornale Botanico Italiano.

Honors

In 1842, Pierre Edmond Boissier named the cruciferous genus Parlatoria after him.

Fonts

Flora Panormitana 1838
Lezioni di botanica comparata, Florence 1843
Monographia delle fumarie, Florence 1844
Flora Italiana, from 1848 (five volumes appeared during his lifetime until 1874, five others edited by Teodoro Caruel until 1894)

He contributed to the collection Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle ( Conifers and Gnetum ), which he visited in Geneva, and to the natural history of the Canary Islands by Webb.

Web links

Commons : Filippo Parlatore - collection of images, videos and audio files

Catholic Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

^ Franz von Kobell : Filippo Parlatore (obituary) . In: Meeting reports of the mathematical-physical class of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich . tape 8 , 1978, p. 104–105 ( online [PDF; accessed March 20, 2017]).
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Parlatore, Filippo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Palermo
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1877
Place of death	Florence

[1] Franz von Kobell : Filippo Parlatore (obituary) . In: Meeting reports of the mathematical-physical class of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich . tape 8 , 1978, p. 104–105 ( online [PDF; accessed March 20, 2017]).

[Burkhardt_2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .