Adriano Fiori (17 December 1865, Casinalbo – 5 November 1950, Casinalbo) was an Italian

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. He studied medicine and

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at the

University of Modena The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia ( it, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia), located in Modena and Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, is one of the oldest universities in Italy, founded in 1175, with a population of 2 ...

, then spent several years working as an assistant at the botanical institute in

Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

(1892–1900). From 1900 to 1913 he was a professor of natural sciences at the Forestry Institute of Vallombrosa, and from 1913 to 1936, he served as a professor in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

.JSTOR Global Plants
Fiori, Adriano (1865-1950) During his career, he travelled extensively throughout Italy, during which, he studied and collected many plant specimens. He also spent considerable time botanizing in the Italian colony of

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

. He donated tens of thousands of specimens to the

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

in Florence that included 1300 items from Eritrea.

Principal published works

* ''Flora analitica d'Italia'', (with Giulio Paoletti), 1896–1904. * ''Piante raccolte nella colonia eritrea nel 1909'' (Plants collected in the colony of Eritrea in 1909), 1913. * ''Nuova flora analitica d'Italia'', 1923–1929. * ''Iconographia florae italicae'' (with Giulio Paoletti), 1933. L'erbario, Dipartimento di Botanica - Università degli Studi di Catania
Adriano Fiori (1865 - 1950)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiori, Adriano 1865 births 1950 deaths People from the Province of Modena 19th-century Italian botanists 20th-century Italian botanists