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. Massalongo edited the exsiccata Lichenes Italici Exsiccati (1855-1856).^[5] In 1859 his Catalogo dei rettili delle province venete was published in Venice.^[1]

Bust of Abramo Massalongo

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.^[6]

See also

• Category talk:Taxa named by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo

References

1. Cappelletii, Maurizia Alippi (2008). "Abramo Bartolomeo Massalongo" Archived 22 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 71. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
2. "Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo" Archived 7 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine (1981). Taxonomic Literature II Online. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
3. "Anzi, Martino (1812–1883)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
4. Cappelletii, Maurizia Alippi (2008). "Caro Benigno Massalongo" Archived 22 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 71. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
5. "Lichenes Italici Exsiccati, auctore doct. Abr. B. Prof. Massalongo, e quadraginta viris societatis scientiarum Italiae: IndExs ExsiccataID=954199730". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
6. Körber, G.W. (1855). Systema lichenum Germaniae (in Latin). Breslau: Trewendt & Granier. p. 109. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
7. International Plant Names Index.  A.Massal.

External links

• View works by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo at Biodiversity Heritage Library.