Vincenzo Petagna

Vincenzo Petagna (born January 17, 1734 in Naples , † October 6, 1810 in Naples) was an Italian medic, botanist, entomologist and arachnologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Petagna ".

Life

Vincenzo Petagna first went to school with the Jesuits and then studied medicine with a Laureate degree in 1754. He traveled to Austria and Germany in 1770 and, after his return, turned to natural history, taught botany as a professor at the university and was director of botany Garden in the Monastery of Monte Oliveto . As a doctor, he was also a member of the Royal Health Commission in Naples.

He was a member of the Real Istituto d'Incoraggiamento di Napoli and the Real Società delle Scienze.

Honors

The umbelliferae genus Petagnia Guss. is named in his honor. The first description of bow hemp comes from Petagna .

Fonts

Vincentii Petagnæ… Institutiones entomologicae, Naples 1792, Biodiversity Library
Delle facultà delle piante. Trattato in cui s'espongono le virtù delle piante, tanto di quelle addette all'uso medico, quanto di quelle, che servono ad altri usi nella civile economia, ordinato secondo il sistema sessuale di Linneo. Napoli, Gaetano Raimondi, 1796, online, Naples Botanical Garden
Specimen insectorum ulterioris Calabriae, Frankfurt 1787, Archive

literature

Nekrolog in Atti del R. Istituto d'incoraggiamento alle scienze naturali di Napoli, Naples 1818, online

Individual evidence

↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2017. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
↑ 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	Petagna, Vincenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian medic, botanist, entomologist and arachnologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naples
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1810
Place of death	Naples

[Zander2008-1] Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2017. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

[Burkhardt_2018-2] 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 .