Giacomo Zanoni

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Giacomo Zanoni (born January 6, 1615 in Montecchio Emilia , † August 24, 1682 in Bologna ) was an Italian botanist .

Life

Giacomo Zanoni was born in 1615 as the son of a pharmacist in Montecchio Emilia , a town near Reggio nell'Emilia . When he was around 20 years old, his father sent him to Bologna . He studied there with Bartolomeo Ambrosini (1588–1657), the successor to Ulisse Aldrovandi .

At the age of 27 he became head of the Bologna Botanical Garden . He set up an often-visited cabinet of natural history rarities and toured the Italian Alpine regions.

In 1675 his work Istoria botanica was published , which was translated into Latin and expanded in 1742 by Gaetano Lorenzo Monti .

Honor taxon

Charles Plumier named a genus Zanonia in his honor . Carl von Linné put the plants described by Plumier in the genus Commelina . Under the now known genus name Zanonia , Linné described a genus of the cucurbit plant family (Cucurbitaceae).

Fonts (selection)

  • Indice delle piante portate nell 'anno 1652 ... Bologna 1652.
  • Istoria botanica… Nella quale si descriveno alcune piante degl'antichi, da moderni con altri nomi proposte; e molt'altre non più osservate, e da varie reggioni del mondo venute, con le virtù, e qualità della maggior parte di esse, & in figure al vivo rappresentate… Gioseffo Longhi, Bologna 1675.
  • Rariorum stirpium historia ex parte olim edita. Nunc centum plus tabulis ex commentariis auctoris from ejusdem nepotibus ampliata… Lelio Della Volpe, Bologna 1742 (expanded, Latin edition by Gaetano Lorenzo Monti).

proof

literature

  • Johann Christoph Adelung : General scholarly lexicon. Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general lexicon of scholars… Volume 4, 1751.
  • Serafino Mazzetti (Editor): Repertorio di tutti i professori antichi, e moderni, della famosa università, e del celebre istituto delle scienze di Bologna . Tipografia di San Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna 1847.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 38.
  2. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 23.
  3. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 95.
  4. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 477.

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personal data
SURNAME Zanoni, Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Montecchio Emilia
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1682
Place of death Bologna