Giulio Curioni

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Giulio Curioni (born May 17, 1796 in Milan , † September 21, 1878 ) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist .

Lariosaurus balsami , Verona Natural History Museum, first described by Curioni

Life

Curioni came from a noble Milanese family and studied at the University of Pavia Jura with the Laurea degree in 1815. However, he became increasingly interested in natural sciences and especially geology. Reluctantly, he began a career in administration in Como and was happy to receive the post of inspector for powders and nitrates, which enabled him to search for minerals in the Alps. He examined the occurrence of various mineral resources such as the iron mineral siderite in Val Camonica and other places in northern Italy. In the course of time he became one of the best geological experts on the Lombard Alps. Many of his publications concerned possible mineral resources in Lombardy (iron, brown coal , cement, marble, oil shale , peat).

He was secretary of the Istituto Lombardo, was at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano and, after the unification of Italy, in the Supreme Mining Council and National Geological Committee of Italy.

As a geologist, he was a pioneer of stratigraphy in Italy and he particularly examined the Triassic formations in Lombardy, which he systematically identified there. Before his investigations, the opinion prevailed, among others represented by the great French geologist Elie de Beaumont , that the oldest formations there were from the Jura . In 1865 he even discovered carbon deposits in Val Camonica. Another dispute arose over the question of whether signs of earlier glaciation could be found in the Po Valley. Curioni provided evidence for this, which was confirmed by Studer . In 1877 his two-volume monograph on the (applied) geology of Lombardy was published.

Curioni was one of the founders of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali and one of the first to draw attention to the fish fossils on Monte San Giorgio (Besano on the Italian side). He first described Lariosaurus balsami Curioni in 1847, which he named in honor of Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli .

He was Commander of the Order of St. Maurizius and Lazzarus and Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

He donated his geological collections to the Museum of the Geological Committee in Rome and museums in Lombardy.

The ammonite Eoprotrachyceras curionii (Mojsisovics, 1882), Lariosaurus curionii (Rieppel, 1998) and Saurichthys curionii (Rieppel, 1985) were named after him .

Fonts

  • Red sandstone fossils in the Bergamasque Mountains, Ber. ü. d. Mitt. Von Freunde der Naturwiss., Volume 6, 1849, pp. 1-20
  • Appendice alla memoria sulla successione normal dei diversi membri del terreno Triassico della Lombardia, in Mem. D. IR is. Lombardo di Scienze e Lett., Series 2, Volume 7, 1859, pp. 121-139
  • Sulla industria del ferro in Lombardia, Milan 1860
  • Geologia applicata delle provincie lombarde, 2 volumes, Milan 1877

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References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Accordi, B .: Dictionnaire Biografico degli Italiani, in Enciclopedia Treccani . tape 31 , 1985.
  2. ↑ Comune e Provincia di Milano: Almanacco Comunale e Provinciale Milanese ossia Manuale economico-statistico di Milano e sua Provincia . National Library Vienna, 1836.
  3. ↑ a b Curioni, G .: 1. Geologia applicata delle provincie Lombarde . Hoepli, 1877.
  4. ↑ a b Curioni, G .: 2. Geologia applicata delle provincie Lombarde . Hoepli, 1877.
  5. ^ Curioni, G .: Su la giacitura, l'escavazione e il trattamento dei minerali di ferro in Lombardia: memoria . Pirola, Milan.
  6. ↑ Curioni, G .: Antica Cava indigena di Marmo-Cipollino nuovamente scoperta e geologicamente illustrata, nº 8 . Tipografia Pirola, 1839.
  7. ^ Curioni, G .: Nota geologica sugli scisti bituminosi di Tignale sul Lago di Garda, in Giorn. d. R. Istit. Lomb. Tom. IX . 1854 (first edition: Milan).
  8. Jump up ↑ Curioni, G .: Geologia - Intorno agli scisti bituminosi della valle di Setarolo: Cenni di G. Curioni, in Atti dell'IR Istituto Lombardo di scienze, lettere ed arti . tape 3 , 1862.
  9. ^ Curioni, G .: Esame di un esemplare di torba trovatosi presso Soresina . tape 5 , 1853.
  10. ↑ Curioni, G .: Di alcuni vegetali dell'epoca carbonifera scoperti nei monti della Val Camonica, in Rend. R. Is. Lomb. Sci. Lett. Milano (Cl. Sc. Mat. Nat.) . tape 2 , 1865.
  11. ↑ Zocchi, P .: La fondazione della Società Geologica residente in Milano (poi Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali) ei suoi rapporti internazionali in un carteggio italo-austriaco . 2010.
  12. ↑ The Pioneers, Monte San Giorgio
  13. ↑ Curioni: Cenni sopra un nuovo saurio fossile dei monti di Perledo sul Lario e sul terreno che lo rachiude. Giorn. Is.t Lombardo Sc. Lett. 16, 1847, pp. 159-170
  14. ↑ Mojsisovics, E .: The Cephalopods of the Mediterranean Triassic Province . KK court and university bookseller, 1882.
  15. ↑ Rieppel, O .: Lariosaurus balsami Curioni (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Gailtal Alps . 1994.
  16. ↑ Stoppani, A., Bellotti, C .: Studii geologici e paleontologici sulla Lombardia. Colla descrizione di alcune nuove specie di pesci fossili ... studii di Cristoforo Bellotti . Turati, 1857.
  17. ↑ Rieppel, O .: The Triassic Fauna of the Ticino Limestone Alps. The genus Saurichthys (Pis-ces, Actinopterygii) from the middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Canton Ticino . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1985.
personal data
SURNAME Curioni, Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1878