Giulio Pontedera
Giulio Pontedera (born May 7, 1688 in Vicenza , † September 3, 1757 in Lonigo , near Vicenza) was an Italian botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Ponted. ".
Life
Giulio Pontedera studied philosophy, medicine and natural history in Padua . Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Giovanni Poleni encouraged him to take a closer look at botany . After obtaining his doctorate in 1715, he became a professor of botany at the grammar school in Padua and director of the Padua Botanical Garden in 1719 .
In his compendium of 1718 he described 272 plants that he had discovered in Italy. In 1720, in the Anthologia, he strongly criticized the idea of the sexuality of plants, which u. a. was represented by Claude-Joseph Geoffroy (1711) and Sébastien Vaillant (1718). In his 1740 work, he studied the early agricultural writings of Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder , Marcus Terentius Varro , Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella and Palladius . On February 12, 1721 he was elected member ( matriculation no. 351 ) of the Leopoldina with the surname Athamas .
Honor taxon
Carl von Linné named the genus Pontederia of the plant family of the water hyacinth family (Pontederiaceae) in his honor .
Works
- Compendium tabularum botanicarum: in quo plantae CCLXXII. from eo in Italia nuper detectae recensentur . Padua 1718
- Anthologia, sive, De floris natura libri tres, plurimis inventis, observationibusque, ac aereis tabulis ornati . Padua 1720
- Antiquitatum Latinarum Graecarumque enarrationes atque emendationes: praecipue ad veteris anni rationem attinentes epistolis LXVIII. comprensae et tabulis plurimis ornatae . Padua 1740
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- Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 494 digitized
- Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars. Volume 6, 1819
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 208 digitized
- Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., 2000, p. 2148, ISBN 0849326761
Web links
- Member entry of Giulio Pontedera at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 22, 2017.
- Literature by and about Giulio Pontedera in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Giulio Pontedera at the IPNI
- Scan of the anthologia
- Statue of Giulio Pontedera
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . 5th edition, 1754
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum . 1753, p. 288
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pontedera, Giulio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pontedera, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1688 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vicenza |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1757 |
| Place of death | Lonigo , near Vicenza |