Michele Gortani

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Michele Gortani

Michele Gortani (born January 16, 1883 in Lugo , † January 24, 1966 in Tolmezzo ) was an Italian geologist and politician.

Life

Gortani was born in Spain, where his father worked as an engineer, and studied natural sciences at the University of Bologna with a Laureate degree in 1904. After that he was an assistant at the University of Perugia until 1906 , in Turin from 1906 to 1910 and in Bologna from 1910 to 1913. From 1913 to 1922 he was a professor in Pisa (interrupted by voluntary military service in World War I ), in 1922 he became associate professor in Cagliari and in the same year in Pavia and in 1924 he became professor in Bologna. There he held the chair of geology until 1953 and was retired in 1958 .

He wrote around 300 scientific papers, including a geology textbook. In addition to geology, he also published in botany, including an 800-page directory of the plants in his native Friuli at the age of 22 , and entomology (especially on beetles ). As a geologist he worked in the Carnic Alps , where his school sometimes competed with that of his friend Franz Heritsch , in Sardinia and the Italian colonies in East Africa and in the Afar Triangle , among other things to search for oil for the Agip group in the 1930s Years. Another focus of his work was hydrogeology . As a paleontologist , his focus was on the Paleozoic of the Mediterranean ( Silurian , Devonian , Carboniferous , Permian ).

He was also a member of parliament (from 1913) and later an Italian senator. Gortani was the founding editor of the Giornale di Geologia and in 1926 and 1947 President of the Italian Geological Society. He was the founder of the Italian Society for Speleology and founded a Carnic local history museum in Tolmezzo .

He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti . In 1942 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

The Ostracodengattung Gortanella from the Perm in 1966 named in his honor.

literature

  • Obituary by F. Kahler in communications from the Geological Society Vienna. Volume 59, 1966, pp. 271-273

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth in Spain according to Treccani , and F. Kahler, Michele Gortani, Mitt. Geolog. Ges. Wien, p. 271 (place of birth in Spain)
personal data
SURNAME Gortani, Michele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian geologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugo
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1966
Place of death Tolmezzo