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Gaetano Savi

1769 - 1844

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Gaetano Savi (13 June 1769 – 28 April 1844) was an Italian naturalist., botanist and mycologist. He was born in Florence and studied with Giorgio Santi (1746–1822) and Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti (1823–1902). In 1798 he published Flora Pisana (flora of Pisa); in 1801 the first edition of Trattato degli alberi della Toscana (treatise on the trees of Tuscany); in 1808 Botanicon Etruscum (botany of Etruria); and in 1818 Flora Italiana (flora of Italy). He taught physics and botany at the University of Pisa and directed the botanical garden there from 1814. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaetano Savi is the 719th most popular biologist (up from 884th in 2019), the 3,317th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,900th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Gaetano Savi ranks 719 out of 1,097. Before him are James Sowerby, Thomas Nuttall, Alessandra Giliani, Alice Hamilton, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, and Paul Bert. After him are John Anderson, Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, William Henry Hudson, Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, Johan August Wahlberg, and Marie-Anne Libert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Gaetano Savi ranks 37. Before him are Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Garlieb Merkel, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Simón Rodríguez, and Johannes Baptista von Albertini. After him are George W. Campbell, Utagawa Toyokuni, Jane Marcet, Vasily Stasov, Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert. Among people deceased in 1844, Gaetano Savi ranks 36. Before him are Henri-Montan Berton, Alexander von Benckendorff, Vincenzo Camuccini, Gustav Hugo, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, and Jacob Aall. After him are Melchor Múzquiz, José Rondeau, Abel P. Upshur, Sándor Kisfaludy, Princess Sophia of Gloucester, and Domingo Nieto.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gaetano Savi ranks 3,318 out of 5,161. Before him are Giulio Cabianca (1923), Steno (1917), Antonino Rocca (1921), Radoald of Benevento (650), Silvio Orlando (1957), and Gian Piero Ventura (1948). After him are Sylvano Bussotti (1931), Francesco Mario Pagano (1748), Alessandro Striggio (1540), Giuseppe Piermarini (1734), Pietro Palazzini (1912), and Dalila Di Lazzaro (1953).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Gaetano Savi ranks 14. Before him are Mikhail Tsvet (1872), Odoardo Beccari (1843), Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922), Carlo Allioni (1728), Giuseppe Acerbi (1773), and Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845). After him are Domenico Vandelli (1735), Tommaso Salvadori (1835), Giacomo Bresadola (1847), Michele Tenore (1780), Filippo Parlatore (1816), and Carlo Luigi Spegazzini (1858).

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