Giuseppe Balsamo Crivelli
Giuseppe Balsamo Crivelli (born September 1, 1800 in Milan , † November 15, 1874 in Pavia ) was an Italian botanist , zoologist , paleontologist and geologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Bals.-Criv. “He is listed as Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli in the International Plant Names Index .
Life
Balsamo-Crivelli came from a noble family and studied medicine in Pavia with the laureate degree in 1824. Another Laureate degree he acquired in 1837 in zoology. He taught natural history at the Lyceum S. Alessandro in Milan and was professor of mineralogy and zoology at the University of Pavia from 1852. From 1863 he was a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy and he was also in front of the pharmacy faculty for many years. From 1827 to 1851 he headed the Brera Botanical Garden . From 1852 to 1874 he was director of the Natural History Museum in Pavia, whose zoological collection he greatly enlarged.
As a botanist, he studied mosses and fungi (such as botrytis ) and described the fungus (Beauveria bassiana) that caused a disease in silkworms. Later he turned to zoology. He studied the anatomy of millipedes, the reproduction of eels, parthenogenesis , sponges in the Gulf of Naples and discovered a new gill pod in 1858. Around 1850 he began to be interested in geology (especially Lombardy), wrote a geology of Italy and taught the subject at a private polytechnic in Milan. In 1839 he first described the find of the nothosaur Lariosaurus (found on Lake Como in 1830). It was later named Lariosaurus balsami by Giulio Curioni in honor of Balsamo-Crivelli. He also described finds of fossil rhinos.
In 1840 he became a member of the Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lettere and from 1850 to 1851 Radetzky appointed him vice-president. Since 1837 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Turin .
The mushroom genus Balsamia is named in his honor.
Fonts (selection)
- with Giuseppe De Notaris : Synopsis muscorum in agro mediolanensi huc usque lectorum , Milan 1833
- with Giuseppe De Notaris: Prodromus bryologiae mediolanensis , Milan 1834
- Prospetto elementare di una descrizione geologica dell'Italia , Milan: Vallardi 1847
literature
- Mario Gliozzi: Balsamo Crivelli, Giuseppe. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 5: Bacca-Baratta. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1963.
Web links
- Publications by Giuseppe Balsamo Crivelli in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
- Standard entry in the Opac of the SBN
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Balsamo-Crivelli initially called Botrytis paradoxa, later in honor of the actual discoverer Agostino Bassi named
- ↑ Descrizione d'un nuovo rettile fossil della famiglia dei Paleosauri e di due pesci fossili trovati sopra Varenna, Il Politecnico, Volume 1, Fasc. 5, 1839, pp. 321-431
- ^ Entry at the academy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balsamo Crivelli, Giuseppe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balsamo-Crivelli, Giuseppe Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian botanist, zoologist, paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1874 |
| Place of death | Pavia |