Massimiliano Spinola
Massimiliano Spinola (born July 10, 1780 in Pézenas , † November 12, 1857 in Tassarolo ) was an Italian entomologist .
Life
His first name is also written Maximilian, Maximilien. He was Count of Tassarolo and Senator of the Kingdom of Sardinia (Regno Sardo, from 1848).
The Marquis Spinola came from the prestigious and wealthy Spinola family of Genoa and was born in France. In 1789 his family moved to Paris, but fled to Genoa after the outbreak of the French Revolution. Much of their wealth came from land holdings in Spain and South America, from which Spinola received many insects. In 1833 he was imprisoned for political reasons at the fortress of Alessandria and afterwards for a time under surveillance at Tassarolo Castle. In 1841 he attended the third meeting of Italian scientists in Florence, became vice-president of the zoology section at the meeting the following year in Padua and also attended the 8th meeting in Genoa in 1846, but at that time he was already too sick to actively participate. Most recently he was practically blind and lived in Tassarolo. He died after a stroke after an operation on his eye.
He published 53 articles in entomology but also, for example, on the fish in the Gulf of Genoa. His first entomological work appeared in 1805, his last in 1854 (the majority of the work is from 1834 to 1851). In 1847 he became a member of the Leopoldina .
He dealt mainly with beetles, hymenoptera and Schnabelkerfen. His collection is in the Natural History Museums of Turin and Pisa. He was married twice. From his first marriage (1801) with Clelia Durazzo he had a son Agostino. His wife died of tuberculosis in 1803. In 1806 he married his cousin Maria Giulia Spinola, with whom he had three sons and three daughters. His second wife died in 1822.
Memberships
When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.
Fonts
- Faunae liguisticae fragmenta. Decas Ia, 1805
- Insectorum Liguriae species novae aut rariores, quas in agro Ligustico nuper detexit, descripsit, et iconibus illustravit, 2 volumes, Genoa: Gravier 1806, 1808
- Tavola sinottica dei generi spettani all classe degli insetti Arthroidignati, Hemiptera Linn., Latr. - Rhyngota Fab. - Rhynchota Burm. Memoria del Socio Attuale signor Marchese Massimiliano Spinola Modena, Dal tipi delle RD Camera. Soc. Ital. Sci., T.25, pt.1, 1850
- Insectos. Order 7. Himenopteros, Claudio Gay : Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Zoologia. Volume 6. Paris: Maulde & Renon, 1851, pp. 153-569
literature
- M. Generani, PI Scaramozzino: Australian hymenoptera in the Spinola Collection: a list of species, in: Andrew Austin, Mark Dowton, Hymenoptera: Evolution, Biodiversity and Biological Control, CSIRO Publ., 2000, pp. 231–246 (with biography )
- Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Massimiliano von Spinola at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.
- ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 192.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spinola, Massimiliano |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spinola, Maximilian; Spinola, Maximilien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pézenas |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1857 |
| Place of death | Tassarolo |