Giovanni Gussone

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Giovanni Gussone

Giovanni Gussone (born February 8, 1787 in Villamaina , Avellino Province , † January 14, 1866 in Naples ) was an Italian botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Guss. "

Life

He studied medicine at the University of Naples and graduated in 1811. Already in the first years of his studies he showed a great interest in botany and in 1810 he met the Italian botanist and then director of the Botanical Garden of Naples , Michele Tenore (1780-1861). In 1812 he became tenore's assistant. The mutual high respect between the two led them to dedicate themselves to each other newly discovered plant species. Tenore named Erodium gussoni Ten. , Ornithogalum gussonei Ten. and Scutellaria gussonii Ten. according to Gussone and Gussone, the reverse is true for plants like Centaurea tenorei Guss. ex Lacaita and Statice tenoreana cast. after tenors.

In 1817 Gussone was commissioned by the Duke of Calabria to establish the Boccadifalco experimental garden near Palermo . This garden was intended for the acclimatization of citrus plants from Arabia and as an institute for the application of botany in the agricultural field.

When the Duke of Calabria ascended the throne of Naples under the name of Francis I in 1825, he appointed Gussone as court botanist in 1827 with the privilege of living at the court of Naples until 1860. Gussone made several trips through Italy and abroad and made a considerable contribution to the study of the flora of southern Italy. After 1861 Gussone had contacts with the regent Victor Emanuel II , who appointed him professor emeritus at the University of Naples.

Honors

The plant genus Gussonia Spreng is named after Gussone . from the milkweed family (Euphorbiaceae).

Fonts

Gussone published many publications that became invaluable to future botanists. For example, he was involved in Michele Tenore's standard work Flora Napolitana (1811-1838) and his most important works of his own include Florae siculae prodromus (1827-1828), Plantae rariores (1826), Flora sicula (1829), Florae siculae synopsis (1842 -1845) and Enumeratio plantarum vascularium in insula Inarime (1855).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Gussone, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Villamaina , Avellino Province , Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1866
Place of death Naples , Italy