Gian Girolamo Zannichelli

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Gian Girolamo Zannichelli , also Giovanni Gerolamo Zannichelli (born April 1661 in Spilamberto , Modena , † February 11, 1729 ) was an Italian pharmacologist , botanist and natural scientist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Zannich. ".

Live and act

Gian Girolamo Zannichelli is the son of Antonio Zannichelli. After an initial training in Modena , he went to Venice for further studies and was accepted in 1684 at the Collegio degli Speziali , a well-known college for pharmacy .

Two years later he founded his own Spezieria in Santa Fosca , a combination of spice shop and pharmacy that was common at the time. Giovanni Battista Morgagni learned the basics of chemistry from him. In 1701 Zannichelli published Promptuarium Remediorum Chymicorum , a compilation of the production of over 100 medicines from animal, vegetable and mineral components.

In 1702 he received an honorary degree in medicine, surgery and chemistry from Francesco Farnese , the Duke of Parma . Through his growing recognition, but also through his economic success, which u. a. based on the production and marketing of the Pillole di Santa Fosca (Santa Fosca Pill), he was able to devote himself to further scientific studies. He was initially interested in paleontology and mineralogy .

In 1710 he went on excursions to the mountains of Vicenza and Verona and collected numerous fossil shells , plants and fish . A year later he exhibited these finds together with other pieces from Portugal , Switzerland , Greece , Savoy and other Italian provinces for the first time. Another exhibition followed in 1712, with the focus on crystals , stones and minerals from Saxony and other parts of Germany, from Bohemia , Hungary , Norway , from the islands of Corsica and Elba, as well as from Tyrol and Italy .

Zannichelli was very interested in botany throughout his life . He was in close contact with Pier Antonio Micheli and Bartolomeo Martini (1676–1720). During his excursions, e.g. B. with Pietro Stefanelli in the mountains around Feltre , he also collected numerous plant material. During the first ascent of Monte Cavallo , which he accomplished on July 3, 1726 together with Pietro Stefanelli, he fell and did not recover from the consequences of the fall. The results of his botanical collecting trips were published under the title Opuscula botanica (1730) by his son Gian Jacopo Zannichelli (1695–1759) after his death .

In 1759, his son left his father's natural history collection to the University of Padua .

Honor taxon

Carl von Linné named the genus Zannichellia of the plant family of the spawn plants (Potamogetonaceae) in his honor .

Fonts (selection)

  • Promptuarium remediorum chymicorum . Venice 1701.
  • De ferro ejusque nivis præparatione: dissertatio physico-chymica, in qua varia de ipso metallo explicantur . Venice 1713.
  • De Myriophyllo pelagico, aliaque marina plantula innominate .. . Venice 1714.
  • Variorum fossilium apparatus, ex collectaneis IH Zannichelli .. . Venice 1720.
  • De lithographia duorum montium Veronensium, unius nempe vulgo dicti di Boniolo, et alterius di Zoppica .. . Venice 1721.
  • Ex naturae gazophylacio penes Joannem Hieronymum Zannichelli . Venice 1726.
  • De quodam insecto a quatili epistola illustrissimo Domino Carolo Nicolao Langio . Venice 1727.
  • De Rusco ejusque medicamentosa praeparatione .. . Venice 1727.
  • Opuscula botanica posthuma: Iter primum per Istriam et insulas adjacentes. Secundum Montis Caballi, ibique stirpium nascentium descriptio. Tertium stirpium in Monte Vettarum agri Feltrini sponte nascentium descriptio. Quartum plantarum Montis Summani agri Vicentini descriptio. Quintum per Montes Euganeos. JJ filio in lucem edita .. . Venice 1730. - posthumously
  • Istoria delle piante che nascono ne'lidi intorno a Venezia .. . Venice 1735. - posthumously

proof

literature

  • Girolamo Tiraboschi : Biblioteca Modenese, o notizie della vita e delle opere degli scrittori natii degli stati del duca di Modena. Volume 5, Modena 1784

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 95
  2. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 444

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personal data
SURNAME Zannichelli, Gian Girolamo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zannichelli, Giovanni Gerolamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian chemist, botanist and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1661
PLACE OF BIRTH Spilamberto , Modena
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1729