Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo
Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo (13 May 1824 – 25 May 1860) was an Italian paleobotanist and lichenologist. He was born in Tregnago in the Province of Verona and took a great interest in botany as a young man. Massalongo joined the faculty of medicine at the University of Padua in 1844.[1] Along with Gustav Wilhelm Körber, he founded the "Italian-Silesian" school of lichenology.[2] He also collaborated with Martino Anzi.[3] He was the husband of Maria Colognato and the father of hepaticologist Caro Benigno Massalongo.[4] He also worked in the scientific field of herpetology. In 1859 his Catalogo dei rettili delle province venete was published in Venice.[1]
Massalongo died in Verona in 1860.[1]
He was honoured in 1855, when German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber circumscribed Massalongia which is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Massalongiaceae.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Cappelletii, Maurizia Alippi (2008). "Abramo Bartolomeo Massalongo" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 71. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ "Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo" (1981). Taxonomic Literature II Online. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ "Anzi, Martino (1812-1883)". Global Plants. JSTOR.
- ^ Cappelletii, Maurizia Alippi (2008). "Caro Benigno Massalongo" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 71. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ Körber, G.W. (1855). Systema lichenum Germaniae (in Latin). Breslau: Trewendt & Granier. p. 109.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. A.Massal.
External links
- View works by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo at Biodiversity Heritage Library.