Maria Selebam de Cattani

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Lilium cattaniae Visiani, Roberto Visiani Supplementum Flora Dalmatica , plate 3, 1872, lithograph G. Kirchmaijr

Maria Selebam de Cattani (born May 29, 1791 in Split ; † January 17, 1870 there ) was an Italian naturalist.

Life

Selebam de Cattani was born and lives in Split. In particular, she developed an interest in the flora of the area around Split in central Dalmatia . Although she likely did not publish her own work, she has maintained correspondence with numerous botanists, notably Roberto de Visiani and Mutius von Tommasini .

In her honor, the epithet of the Cattani lily ( Lilium cattaniae (Vis.) Vis.) She discovered was given. By sending the lilies she collected in the Mosor Mountains and Velebit to Padua and Trieste, the specific variety of the Turkic Union soon became known throughout Europe.

family

Maria was the daughter of Niccolo Selebam, a Swiss mathematician and naturalist. Her mother Maria came from the island of Imola. Maria became interested in botany at an early age, so she received 400 different types of algae from the entire Adriatic region from the Pag doctor Cariboni.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Čedomil Šilić 1990: Endemične Biljke . Priroda Jugoslavije, Vol. 3, Svjetlost, Sarajewo, Edition 3. ISBN 86-01-02557-9 , p. 212 with information on Cattanis.
  2. ^ Tommasini, M. 1866: From the coastal land. Austrian Botanical Journal, 1866, 16 (8), 236–240. Here page 238 (JSTOR)
  3. ^ Tommasini, M. 1866: From the coastal land . P. 238
  4. ^ Forti, Achille 1930: Il contributo di Maria Selebam De Cattani agli studi delle alghe marine, e di certe sue raccolte conservate a Venezia . Giornale botanico italiano, Volume 37, Issue 4, 747–755 [1] (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Selebam de Cattani, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Split
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1870
Place of death Split