Juan Ignacio Molina
Juan Ignacio Molina González , also Giovanni Ignazio Molina (born June 24, 1740 in Guaraculén / Linares / Región del Maule , † September 12, 1829 in Bologna ) was a Chilean priest and naturalist , also known as Abate Molina . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Molina ".
Live and act
Molina was educated at the Jesuit school in Concepción . He was forced to leave Chile in 1768 when the Jesuits were expelled from the Spanish Empire .
In 1773 he settled in Bologna, where he became professor of Greek, and later of natural sciences. Molina wrote a first treatise on the natural history of Chile in 1776 . He dealt critically with the work of Cornelis de Pauw on South America and pointed out errors in the geology and about the inhabitants there. As early as 1787, he put forward the thesis of the settlement of South America from South Asia via the Pacific islands. He also described many Chilean plant species.
Honors
According to him, the three plant genera Molinia Cabinet , Moliniopsis Gand. and Neomolinia Honda from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) and the magazine "Moliniana".
Works
- Compendio della storia geografica, naturale, e civili del regno del Chile (Bologna 1776, Madrid 1788)
- Ensayo sobre la historia natural de Chile (1782) (Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili, Bologna 1782).
- Attempt a natural history of chilli. Leipzig: Friedrich Gotthold Jacobäer, 1784. 346 pages. Translation by JD Brandis (Saggio sulla storia naturale de Chili 1782).
- Ensayo sobre la historia civil de Chile (Saggio sulla Storia Civile del Chili, Bologna 1787, Madrid 1795).
literature
- Walter Hanisch Espindola: Juan Ignacio Molina y sus obras , Univ. de Talca, Talca 1999, ISBN 956-7059-28-4
- Charles E. Ronan: Juan Ignacio Molina. The World's Window on Chile , Lang, New York 2002, ISBN 0-8204-5219-X (American University Studies; Vol. 9,198)
- Charles E. O'Neill, Joaquín María Domínguez: Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús. Biográfico-Temático, III, Univ. Pontifica Comillas, 2001, ISBN 84-8468-039-8 , pp. 2717 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
- ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2001. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Juan Ignacio Molina in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10435c.htm
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Juan Ignacio Molina at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Molina, Juan Ignacio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Molina, Abate; Molina, Giovanni Ignazio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean priest and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guaraculén , Región del Maule, Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1829 |
| Place of death | Bologna |