Stefano Andrea Renier

Stefano Andrea Renier (born January 29, 1759 in Chioggia , † January 16, 1830 Padua ) was an Italian zoologist and doctor.

Life

Renier studied at the episcopal seminary in Padua and then medicine at the University of Padua, graduating as a doctor of medicine in 1781. He was at hospitals in Bologna , Florence and Pavia before he returned to Chioggia and settled as a doctor. In addition, he dealt with zoology, especially ichthyology . He was a doctor at the Health Department of Chioggia and as such was responsible for the sanitary condition of warehouses, hospitals, salt pans and other businesses. During the Napoleonic occupation he tried to negotiate the status of a free port for the city.

1806 to 1829 he was professor of natural history at the University of Padua and was director of the Natural History Museum in Padua.

After several years of work, he cataloged the mollusks of the Mediterranean with many initial descriptions. For the classification he also used the nervous system of the mollusks. One of his first works concerned the colony-forming sea squirt genus Botryllus (star ascidia). In 1818 he sold part of his collection of marine animals to the natural history cabinet in Vienna.

He also wrote school books.

Fonts

• Sopra il Botrillo stellato 1793
• Tavola alfabetica delle conchiglie Adriatiche, 1802
• Tavole per servire alla classificazione e connoscenza degli Animali 1807
• Elementi di mineralogia, 1825 to 1828
• Osservazioni postume di zoologia adriatica 1847 (editor G. Meneghini)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Renier, Stephan Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 25th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1873, p. 286 f. ( Digitized version ).
• PG Tiozzo: Stefano Andrea Renier, Venice 1979.
• C. Cibin: Stefano Andrea Renier naturalista e riformatore, Chioggia 1981.

Web links

• Austrian Biographical Lexicon