Roberto de Visiani

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Roberto de Visiani

Roberto de Visiani , also Robert Visiani (born April 9, 1800 in Šibenik , † May 4, 1878 in Padua ), was a botanist and doctor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Vis. “Visiani's life's work is connected to the work on the Flora Dalmatica. The material collected by 30 employees over 50 years is kept in the Botanical Museum of the University of Padua in the closed collection of Flora Dalmatica .

Live and act

Iconography of Acer macropterum Vis. (actually Acer heldreichii spp. visianii ) from Visianis Plantarum serbicarum pemptas 1860. This comes from a Serbian collection by Josif Pančić

Robert Visiani was the son of a doctor from France. He received his first training in Split . In 1817 he enrolled at the Medical Faculty of the University of Padua and graduated there in 1822 with a master's degree. He then became an assistant to Giuseppe Antonio Bonato (1753-1836). In the meantime, from 1826, he worked as a general practitioner in Kotor , Drniš and Budva for several years , while also collecting material for his publications on the plants of Dalmatia . After Bonato's death on March 4, 1837, he was both his successor to the chair of botany and head of the Padua Botanical Garden . He did not give up the chair of botany until May 17, 1877, a year before his death.

The focus of Robert Visiani's work was, among other things, the flora of Dalmatia and Serbia . Among other things, Visiani and Josif Pančić published the first publication of the northern subspecies of the Greek maple ( Acer heldreichii ssp. Visianii ).

Honors

In 1844 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle named the plant genus Visiania in his honor in 1844 . Today it is a synonym for Ligustrum from the olive family Oleaceae . Guglielmo Gasparrini named, also in 1844, a genus of plants from the mulberry family ( Moraceae ) with the name Visiania . However, this homonym is invalid under the rules of the ICBN .

In the 19th century, a city park in Šibenik was named after Robert Visiani.

Publications

  • Stirpium dalmaticarum specimen . Padua 1826.
  • Plantae quaedam Aegypti ac Nubiae enumeratae . Padua 1836.
  • Flora Dalmatica: sive enumeratio stirpium vascularium, quas hactenus in Dalmatia lectas et sibi observatas descripsit, digessit, rariorumque iconibus illustravit . F. Hofmeister, Leipzig (1842-1852).
  • Plantae serbicae rariores aut novae . Venice (1862, 1864 and 1870; with Josif Pančić (1814–1888)).
  • Di due nuovi Generi di Piante Fossili. Nota . 1869
  • Florae Dalmaticae supplementum alterum adjectis plantis in Bosnia, Hercegovina et Montenegro Crescentibus . Venice (1872, 1877 and 1882).

literature

  • Aldo Mieli (editor): Gli scienziati italiani dall'inizio del medio evo ai nostri giorni: repertorio biobibliografico dei filosofi, matematici, astronomi, fisici, chimici, naturalisti, biologi, medici, geografi italiani . Volume 1. Leonardo da Vinci, Roma 1923
  • Enciklopedija Jugoslavije , 1st edition, Volume 8, 1971

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ https://www.musei.unipd.it/it/botanico/collezioni/botanica-flora-dalmatica Flora Dalmatica
  2. ↑ Moreno Clemeti 2017: A Cross-disciplinary Study of the Work and Collections by Roberto de Visiani (1800–1878). Phd Thesis, University of Padua (PDF)
  3. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Roberto de Visiani
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Visiani, Roberto de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Visiani, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian-Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Šibenik
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1878
Place of death Padua