Lamberto Loria
Lamberto Loria (born February 12, 1855 in Alexandria , Egypt , † April 4, 1913 in Rome ) was an Italian ethnographer and naturalist .
Live and act
Loria was born to an Italian-Jewish family in Alexandria, Egypt. After the death of his mother Clara, he settled in Pisa with his father Mario, a doctor. Here he attended high school and university, where he graduated in mathematics in 1881. He then became a member of the Società Italiana di Antropologia e Etnologia (Italian Society for Anthropology and Ethnology), which was founded in Florence in 1870 by Paolo Mantegazza .
Loria made numerous trips, on which he either conducted anthropological-ethnological studies or collected zoological samples. From 1883 these took him first to Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia and Turkestan . From 1889 to 1890 and again from 1892 to 1897 he spent in Papua New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands . His last expedition was to Eritrea in 1905 . After returning to Italy, Loria finished his research and devoted himself to the ethnography and anthropology of Italy in collaboration with Professor Aldobrandino Mochi , a student of Mantegazza.
In 1906 they founded the first Italian museum for ethnography in Florence. The museum was soon moved to Rome after the first ethnographic exhibition was organized there in 1911 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the unification of Italy . In addition to the 5,000 artifacts from Florence, over 30,000 objects collected by Loria and his assistants have been added to the collection in Rome.
Loria's rich natural history and ethnographic collections are kept in various Italian museums, including the Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria in Genoa, the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini" in Rome, the Museo di storia naturale sezione di anthropologia ed etnologia in Florence and in Museo Civico Archeologico Etnologico di Modena . The multi-part research report Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia Orientale was published about his work in Papua New Guinea , in which Tommaso Salvadori was involved. His travel diary remained unpublished.
Dedication names
After Loria the Froschlurch are loriae oreophryne , the gecko species Cyrtodactylus loriae that Skinkart Sphenomorphus loriae , Toxicocalamus loriae (a snake of the genus Guinea Forest vipers ), the Loriaparadiesvogel ( Cnemophilus loriae ) Ptilorrhoa leucosticta loriae (subspecies of Bergwaldflöters ) Erythropitta macklotii loriae (subspecies of the Papuan blue-breasted pitta ), Loria's mastino bat ( Mormopterus loriae ) and the great prehensile tail rat ( Pogonomys loriae ).
Fonts (selection)
- Il matrimonio nei villaggi del basso San Giuseppe. Nuova Guinea Britannica, 1903
- Appunti di psicologia papuana. Punta S.-E. della Nuova Guinea Britannica, 1905
- Intervento in Atti, 1906
- Come si deve usare la macchina fotografica, 1907
- Com'è sorto il Museo di Etnografia Italiana in Firenze, 1907
- Il paese delle figure, 1907 (reprinted 1981)
- L'Etnografia italiana. Dal Museo all'Esposizione, "Il Marzocco", a. XIII, n.31, agosto, 1908
literature
- Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals JHU Press, 2009, ISBN 9780801893049 : p. 246
Web links
- Treccani, la cultura italiana - Biografico: Loria, Lamberto Biography in Italian
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loria, Lamberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ethnographer and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alexandria , Egypt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1913 |
| Place of death | Rome , Italy |