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Mosè Giacomo Bertoni. known in Spanish as Moisés Santiago Bertoni (15 June 1857 – 19 September 1929), was a Swiss botanist of Italian descent. He emigrated to South America in 1884 and lived in Paraguay from 1887 until he died in 1929. Bertoni work and researched in botany, meteorology, and anthropology. He discovered and classified many new species of plants and left a collection of more than 7000 vegetal species and about 6500 insects. One of the plants he studied in depth was ''ka'a he'ê'' (''Stevia rebaudiana''), a herb indigenous to Paraguay, which became important as a non-caloric sweetener, reputed to be 300 times sweeter than sugar. He also scientifically classified yerba mate (''Ilex paraguariensis''). He was born in the small village of Lottigna, in canton Ticino in the Italian-speaking region in Switzerland, on June 15, 1857, the son of Ambrose Bertoni, a lawyer, jurist, and official, and Josefina Torreani, a teacher from Milan. He died on September 19, 1929, at the age of 72 years in the city of Foz do Iguazu (Brazil), of malaria, and was buried in Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay. ==Childhood and youth== His primary and secondary studies were completed in the Lyceum, Lugano. In 1874 he founded, in collaboration with his mother, the first meteorological observatory of his hometown, Lottigna. In 1875 he started his studies in law and Natural Sciences in the University of Geneva. In 1876 he enrolled in the University of Zurich, where he met biochemistry student Eugenia Rossetti, who he married the following year. 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「Moisés Santiago Bertoni」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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