Luigi Anguillara

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Luigi Anguillara , actually Luigi Squalermo , (* around 1512 in Anguillara Sabazia , † September 1570 in Ferrara ) was an Italian botanist .

Life

Little is known about its early years. Anguillara was detectable in Luca Ghini's private botanical garden in Bologna from 1539 and in Pisa in 1544. In 1546 he became the first director of the Botanical Garden in Padua. He stayed there until 1561 when, apparently due to a dispute with the botanists Ulisse Aldrovandi (director of the Botanical Garden in Bologna) and Pietro Andrea Mattioli, he went to Ferrara, where he worked as a botanist in the service of the Duke of Ferrara and continued his travels. Anguillara had traveled widely (Greece, Italy, France, Asia Minor) and acquired very good knowledge of the Mediterranean flora. He may also have taught medicine in Ferrara. He probably died of the plague.

Anguillara is known for his work Semplici (the only work he knows ), which was written between 1549 and 1560. It describes 1540 plants and their medicinal effects, including the places where he found them. His descriptions are good enough that most of the plants he describes have been identified by historians. He gives references and alternative names. It was based on the Materia Medica of Pedanios Dioscurides and other ancient writers and is divided into 14 chapters, each dedicated to a contemporary Italian doctor. The book was widely quoted by 17th century botanists.

Honors

The plant genus Anguillaria Gaertn is named after him . from the primrose family (Primulaceae).

Fonts

  • Semplici dell 'eccellente ... liquali in piu pareri a diversi nobili huomini scritti appaiono, et nuovamente da m. Giovanni Marinello mandati in luce, Venice 1561 (Latin translation with commentary by Gaspard Bauhin, Basel 1593) Digital copy of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

literature

  • Jerry Stannard: Anguillara, Luigi, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  • Ettore De Toni: Luigi Anguillara e Pietro Antonio Michiel, Annali di botanica, 8 (1910), 617-685
  • Ludovic Legré: La botanique en provence au XVIe siècle: Louis Anguillara, Pierre Belon, Charles de l'Escluse, Antoine Constantin, Marseille, 1901

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Anguillara, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Squalermo, Luigi (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1512
PLACE OF BIRTH Anguillara Sabazia
DATE OF DEATH September 1570
Place of death Ferrara