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 and transferred to law, completing his studies in 1849.^[1][2] Along with Gustav Wilhelm Körber, he founded the "Italian-Silesian" school of lichenology.^[3] He also collaborated with Martino Anzi.^[4] He was the husband of Maria Colognato and the father of hepaticologist Caro Benigno Massalongo.^[5] He also worked in the scientific field of herpetology.^[2] Massalongo edited the exsiccata Lichenes Italici Exsiccati (1855-1856)^[6] and described 138 new lichen genera and several new lichen species.^[2] 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.^[7]

See also

• Category talk:Taxa named by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo