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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was a Tyrolean physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire". ==Biography== Scopoli was born at Cavalese in the Val di Fiemme of Tyrol, the son of a lawyer. He obtained a degree in medicine at University of Innsbruck, and practiced as a doctor in Cavalese and Venice.〔Newton, Alfred 1881. ''Scopoli's ornithological papers.'' The Willoughby Society. (Scanned version )〕 Much of his time was spent in the Alps, collecting plants and insects, of which he made outstanding collections. He spent two years as private secretary to the bishop of Seckau, and then was appointed in 1754 as physician of the mercury mines in Idrija, a small town in the Habsburg realm, remaining there until 1769. In 1761, he published ''De Hydroargyro Idriensi Tentamina'' on the symptoms of mercury poisoning among mercury miners. Scopoli spent time studying the local natural history, publishing ''Flora Carniolica'' (1760) as well as a major work on the insects of Carniola, ''Entomologia Carniolica'' (1763). He also published a series of ''Anni Historico-Naturales'' (1769–72), which included first descriptions of birds from various collections. In 1769, Scopoli was appointed a professor of chemistry and metallurgy at Mining Academy at Schemnitz (now Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia), and in 1777 transferred to the University of Pavia.〔 He became a bitter rival of Lazzaro Spallanzani, who was accused of stealing specimens from the Pavia museum. Spallanzani was tried and the prolonged trial resulted in acquittal. Shortly thereafter, Scopoli died of a stroke.〔Mazzarello, Paolo 2004. ''Costantinopoli 1786: la congiura e la beffa. L'intrigo Spallanzani.'' Bollati Boringhieri〕 His last work was ''Deliciae Flora et Fauna Insubricae''〔Insubria is a historical-geographical region which corresponds to the area inhabited in the past by the Insubres, a Celtic people which dwelt in the 4th–5th centuries BCE. in the area of pre-Alpine lakes and Milan.〕 (1786–88), which included scientific names for birds and mammals in northwestern Italy described by Pierre Sonnerat in the accounts of his voyages. The plant alkaloid and drug scopolamine were first found in the genus ''Scopolia'' which is named after him. The standard botanical author abbreviation Scop. is applied to species he described. Scopoli corresponded with Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations of modern taxonomy.〔 Scopoli communicated all of his research, findings, and descriptions (for example of the olm and the dormouse, two little animals hitherto unknown to Linnaeus). Linnaeus greatly respected him and showed great interest in his work. He named a solanaceous genus, ''Scopolia'', the source of scopolamine, after him. Because of a great distance, they never met. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giovanni Antonio Scopoli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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