Pierre Andrea (Pietro Andrea) Saccardo ( Italian: Pier Andrea Saccardo , April 23, 1845 , Treviso - February 11, 1920 , Padova ) - Italian botanist , mycologist .
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 Pietro Andreo Saccardo (1845-1920) | |
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| Place of Birth | Treviso |
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| Scientific field | Botany , Mycology |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation “ Sacc. " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
In 1869 he was appointed professor of natural history at the Technological Institute in Padua , and in 1879 he became a professor of botany and director of Ortho Botanico at the university .
The scientific activity of Saccardo revolves almost exclusively in the field of mycology .
The main work of Saccardo, which describes 32,000 species [4] of fungi , is published under the title “ Sylloge fungorum omnium huiusque cognitorum ” (Padua, 1882-1892, 10 tons).
In addition, he owns:
- Bryotheca Tarvisina (Treviso, 1864)
- Della storia e letteratura della Flora Veneta (Milan, 1869)
- Sommario d'un corso di botanica (3rd ed., Padova, 1880)
- Musei Tarvisini (Treviso, 1872)
- Mycologiae Venetae specimem (Padova, 1873)
- Mycotheca Veneta (Padova, 1874-1879)
- Micheli a commentarium mycologicum (Padua, 1877-1882, 2 t.)
- Fungi italici autographice delineanti et colorati (Padua, 1877-1886; 1,500 tables).
Mushrooms named after Saccardo
Mordechai Cook named the saccardia genus after Saccardo [5] .
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ AA.VV. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - 1960.
- ↑ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
- ↑ Cybernome: resultado de búsqueda
Links
- Saccardo, Pietro Andreo // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907. (Retrieved April 8, 2009)