Antonio Baldacci (botanist)

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Antonio Baldacci
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Portrait of Baldacci from the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio
Born1867 (1867)
Bologna, Italy
Died1950 (aged 8283)
Bologna, Italy
Citizenship Italy
Scientific career
Fields Botany
Author abbrev. (botany) Bald. [1]
Signature
Signature of Antonio Baldacci.svg

Antonio Baldacci (1867 - 1950) was an Italian scholar, botanist, and geographer.

Life

Baldacci carried out field research in the southern Balkans from the end of the 19th century onward.

After achieving a degree in Zoology in 1891, and following two lecturing posts in Botany and Geography at the University of Bologna in 1889 and 1901 respectively, Baldacci became an assistant at the Botanical Institute where he remained until 1902, after which he transferred to Rome to teach Political and Colonial Geography at the Diplomatic-Colonial School connected to the University.

During his time in Rome many attended his lectures, including ministers and prominent Roman politicians, as well as artists and intellectuals such as Gabriele D’Annunzio, the painters Giulio Aristide Sartorio and Francesco Paolo Michetti, and the painter and sculptor Costantino Barbella.

He published many articles on Albanian and Balkan flora, as well as several monographs on Albania. [2]

Baldacci published the exsiccata-like series Flora exsiccata Crnagorae and several other specimen series from Albania. [3]

Baldacci organized a committee which supported the Montenegrin Greens during and after the Christmas Uprising, until at least 1921. [4]

The standard author abbreviation Bald. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [5]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Exsiccata</span> Published sets of preserved botanical specimens distributed with printed labels

Exsiccata is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set[s] of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium specimens or preserved biological samples published in several duplicate sets with a common theme or title, such as Lichenes Helvetici. Exsiccatae are regarded as scientific contributions of the editor(s) with characteristics from the library world and features from the herbarium world. Exsiccatae works represent a special method of scholarly communication. The text in the printed matters/published booklets is basically a list of labels (schedae) with information on each single numbered exsiccatal unit. Extensions of the concept occur.

References

  1. Brummit, R. K.; Powell, C. E. (1992). Authors of plant names. A list of authors of scientific names of plants. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens. p. 44.
  2. Elsie, Robert (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 29. ISBN   9780810873803 . Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. "Flora exsiccata Crnagorae: IndExs ExsiccataID=1842340223". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  4. Srđan Rudić, Antonello Biagini (2015). Serbian-Italian Relations: History and Modern Times : Collection of Works. p. 146. ISBN   9788677431099.
  5. International Plant Names Index.  Bald.