Francesco Alpino

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Francesco Alpino , also Franciscus Alpinus, was an Italian doctor from Marostica in the Republic of Venice . The botanist Prospero Alpini is the son of Francesco Alpino and his wife Barlolomea Tarsi from Padua.

Honor taxon

Charles Plumier named the genus Alpina from the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) in his honor and his son Prospero Alpini . Carl von Linné later changed the spelling to Alpinia .

proof

  • Aldo Mieli: In: Gli scienziati italiani dall'inizio del Medio evo ai nostri giorni: repertorio biobibliografico dei filosofi, matematici, astronomi, fisici, chimici, naturalisti, biologi, medici, geografi italiani, diretto da compi mieli Mieli numerosi scienziati, storici e bibliografi . Rome 1923.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 26.
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 91.
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Alpino, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franciscus Alpinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 16th century or 17th century