Saverio Landolina

Saverio Landolina (engraving by Antonio Zacco)

Venus Landolina

Saverio Landolina Nava (born February 17, 1743 in Catania , † 1814 in Syracuse ) was an Italian archaeologist and scientist .

Life and effect

Landolina was best known for the discovery of the "Venus Landolina", which is exhibited today in the Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi . He discovered the marble figure in a small temple in Syracuse in 1804 .

For Heinrich Gentz , Count Stolberg , Johann Gottfried Seume and other famous travelers, a visit to Landolina was an integral part of their stay in Italy.

Johann Heinrich Bartels' "Letters on Calabria and Sicily" (1st volume 1787, 2nd volume 1789, 3rd volume 1792), which were among the most important travel guides for German travelers to Italy around 1800, are largely based on communications from Landolina.

In 1791 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Web links

Publications by and about Saverio Landolino in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
Standard entry on Saverio Landolina in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
Portrait of Landolina in the third volume of Bartels' "Letters on Calabria and Sicily" (1792)

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Markus Bernauer: Of Greeks, savages and natural disasters. Johann Heinrich Bartels revises the tradition of southern Italian literature. In: Béatrice Bijon, Yves Clavaron, Bernard Dieterle (eds.): Le Mezzogiorno des écrivains européens. Saint-Étienne 2006. p. 17ff., Here p. 18 .
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 144.

personal data
SURNAME	Landolina, Saverio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Saverio Landolina Nava
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian archaeologist and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH	Catania
DATE OF DEATH	1814
Place of death	Syracuse

[1] Cf. Markus Bernauer: Of Greeks, savages and natural disasters. Johann Heinrich Bartels revises the tradition of southern Italian literature. In: Béatrice Bijon, Yves Clavaron, Bernard Dieterle (eds.): Le Mezzogiorno des écrivains européens. Saint-Étienne 2006. p. 17ff., Here p. 18 .

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 144.