Giovanni Battista Triumfetti

Giovanni Battista Triumfetti , also Giovanni Battista Trionfetti (born May 8, 1656 in Bologna , † 1708 in Rome ) was an Italian doctor and botanist .

Life

Giovanni Battista Triumfetti was professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden in Rome from 1682 until his death . He was a critic of the work of Marcello Malpighi . Since 1699 he was a corresponding member of the Académie royale des sciences .

Dedication names

Charles Plumier named the genus Triumfetta of the linden family (Tiliaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name. Furthermore, after him, the colorful knapweed ( Centaurea triumfettii All. ) And the chamomile species Anthemis triumfetti (L.) DC. named.

Fonts (selection)

• Observationes de ortu ac vegetatione Plantarum, cum novarum stirpium historia iconibus illustrata . Rome 1685.
• Praelusio ad publicas herbarum ostensiones: habita in Horto Medico Romanae Sapientiae anno jubilaei MDCC; cui accesserunt novarum stirpium descriptions & icons . Rome 1700.
• Vindiciae veritatis a castigationibus quarundam propositionum . Rome 1703.

literature

• Luciana Rita Angeletti, Silvia Marinozzi: Giovanni Battista Triumfetti [1658–1708] e la rinascita dell'orto medico di Roma . In: Medicina nei Secoli . Volume 12, Number 3, 2000, pp. 439-475.
• Alessandro Ottaviani:  Trionfetti, Giovan Battista. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 96:  Toja-Trivelli. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2019.

Web links

• Short biography (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alessandro Ottaviani:  Giovanni Battista Triumfetti. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
2. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter T. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 8, 2020 (French). 
3. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 40.
4. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94.
5. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 243.