Carlo Giuseppe Gené (7 December 1800 – 14 July 1847) was an Italian

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

and author. Gené was born at

Turbigo Turbigo (Milanese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about west of Milan, along the Naviglio Grande canal. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,486 and an area of . Tur ...

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and studied at the

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. He published a number of papers on natural history, particularly

entomology Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

. In 1828 he became an assistant lecturer in natural history at the university, and in the following year he traveled to

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, returning with a collection of insect specimens. Between 1833 and 1838 he made four trips to

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collecting insects. In 1830 Gené succeeded

Franco Andrea Bonelli Franco Andrea Bonelli (10 November 1784 – 18 November 1830) was an Italian ornithology, ornithologist, entomologist and collector. He worked at the University of Turin and was involved in organizing the collections of the natural history museu ...

as professor of

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and director of the Royal Zoological Museum at

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. Most of his insect collection is in the Turin Museum of Natural History. Duplicates are in

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (Milan Natural History Museum) is a museum in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1838 when the naturalist Giuseppe de Cristoforis donated his collections to the city. Its first director was the taxono ...

and in Museo di storia naturale dell'Università di Pisa. The slender-billed gull (''Larus genei'') was named after him.

Works

*A work on

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(1835)
''De quibusdam insectis Sardiniae novis aut minus cognitis''
(1839) *''Dei pregiudizi popolari intorno agli animali'' (1869)

References

*''Biographies for Birdwatchers'', Barbara and Richard Mearns

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gene, Giuseppe 1800 births 1847 deaths University of Pavia alumni People from the Metropolitan City of Milan Italian zoologists Italian lepidopterists