Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo

Bust of Abramo 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]

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]

The standard author abbreviation A.Massal. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]
  1. ^ a b c 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.