Giuseppe Monti

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Giuseppe Monti (born November 27, 1682 in Bologna , † February 29, 1760 there ) was an Italian botanist and natural scientist.

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Giuseppe Monti is the son of Antonio Bolognese. On October 29, 1720 he became assistant to the professor of natural history Ferdinando Antonio Ghedini (1684–1768). He received his doctorate in philosophy on April 17, 1722.

On July 3, 1722, Monti was appointed as successor to Ghedini as professor of natural history at the University of Bologna and in the same year also took over the office of the late Lelio Triumfetti (1647–1722) as director of the Bologna Botanical Garden . On April 20, 1736 he was given the chair of botany in the Botanical Garden.

Monti was a follower of Diluvianism . He described numerous fossils in great detail (e.g. in De monumento diluviano in 1719 ... the fossilized jawbone of a rhinoceros) and is one of the pioneers of modern paleontology . The Musaeum Diluvianum , which he organized, is the oldest public paleontological museum.

His extensive herbarium includes around 10,000 sheets with 2523 different species from 736 genera .

His son Gaetano Lorenzo Monti (1712–1797) took over his offices after his death.

Honor taxon

Pier Antonio Micheli named the genus Montia from the plant family of the purslane family (Portulacaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Works

  • De monumento diluviano nuper in agro Bononiensi detecto: dissertatio in qua permultae ipsius inundationis vindiciæ, a statu terræ antediluvianae & postdiluvianæ desumptae , 1719
  • Catalogi stirpium agri Bononiensis prodromus gramina ac hujusmodi affinia complectens ... Bologna, 1719
  • Plantarum varii indices ad usum demonstrationum quae in Bononiensis Archigymnasii Publico Horto quotannis habentur. Iis praefixa est dissertatio ibidem habita anno MDCCXXIII ad easdem demonstrationes auspicandas 1724
  • Exoticorum simplicium medicamentorum varii indices ad usum exercitationum quæ in Bononiensi scientiarum & artium singulis hebdomadis habentur . 1724
  • Plantarum genera a botanicis instituta juxta Tournefortii methodum ad proprias classes relata . 1724
  • Indices botanici et materiae medicae quibus plantarum genera hactenus instituta . 1753 - with his son Gaetano Lorenzo Monti

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  • Serafino Mazzetti (Ed.): Repertorio di tutti i professori antichi, e moderni, della famosa università, e del celebre istituto delle scienze di Bologna . Tipografia di San Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna, 1847.
  • Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . Volume 3: M - Q . CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton FL 2000, ISBN 0-8493-2677-X , p. 1724.
  • Carlo Sarti: The Istituto delle Scienze in Bologna and its geological and paleontological collections in the 18th century = Le raccolte geologiche e paleontologiche settecentesche dell'Istituto delle Scienze di Bologna . In: Gian Battista Vai, William Cavazza (Ed.): Four centuries of the word Geology. Ulisse Aldrovandi in Bologna in 1603. Quadricentenario della parola Geologia. Geologia. Geology . Minerva Ed., Argelato-Bologna 2003, ISBN 88-7381-056-X , pp. 204-219, online .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pier Antonio Micheli: Nova plantarum genera . Florence 1729, p. 18
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
  3. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica Leiden 1737, p. 93
  4. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 35

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personal data
SURNAME Monti, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist, scientist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1682
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1760
Place of death Bologna