Guglielmo Gasparrini (3 January 1803 – 28 June 1866) was an Italian botanist and mycologist.

Biography

Guglielmo Gasparrini was born in Castelgrande, in the Province of Potenza. After his first studies in his native town, he moved to

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

to attend the veterinary school. Subsequently, he entered the Botanical Garden of Naples, under the guide of

Michele Tenore Michele Tenore (5 May 1780 – 19 July 1861) was an Italian botanist active in Naples, Italy. Tenore studied at the University of Naples, receiving his medical degree in 1800. Then he was a friend of botanists Domenico Maria Leone Cirillo (1739� ...

and

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. Graduating in the physical and natural sciences, he was professor of botany at the

University of Naples The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

. From 1857 to 1861, he taught at the

University of Pavia The University of Pavia ( it, Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; la, Alma Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one ...

, of which he was also magnificent rector (Magnífico Reitor). After returning to Naples, he was director of the Neapolitan Botanical Garden from 1861 to 1866. Gasparrini was a member of several scientific institutes such as the French Academy of Sciences, the

Accademia Pontaniana The Accademia Pontaniana was the first academy in the modern sense, as a learned society for scholars and humanists and guided by a formal statute. Patronized by Alfonso V of Aragon, it was founded by the poet Antonio Beccadelli in Naples during ...

, and the Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of Naples, of which he was appointed president until 1862. He died in Naples in 1866.

Selected works

* ''Osservazioni sopra talune modificazioni organiche in alcune cellule vegetali'', Naples, Stamperia del Fibreno, 1863 * ''Ricerche sulla Embriogenia della Canapa'', Naples, 1863 * ''Ricerche sulla natura dei succiatori e la escrezione delle radici ed osservazioni morfologiche sopra taluni organi della Lemna minor'', Naples, Tip.Dura, 1856; * ''Ricerche sulla natura del caprifico, del fico e sulla caprificazione'', Naples, tip. Di Aquila/Puzziello, 1845 * ''Ricerche sulla natura degli Stomi'', Naples, 1842 * ''Ricerche sulla natura della pietra jungja e sul fungo che vi soprannasce'', Naples, Gerolomini, 1841 * ''Descrizione di un nuovo genere di piante della famiglia delle Leguminose'', Naples, 1836

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gasparrini, Guglielmo 1803 births 1866 deaths 19th-century Italian botanists Italian mycologists People from the Province of Potenza University of Naples Federico II faculty