Carlo Allioni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carlo Allioni

Italian physician and professor of botany

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1728

Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 30-Jul-1804

Profession: physician, physicist, pedagogue, university teacher, botanist, entomologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in Turin – 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian physician and professor of botany at the University of Turin.
His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown.
In 1766, he published the Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium. In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the Turin Botanical Garden.
The journal Allionia: bollettino dell' istituto ed orto botanico dell' università di Torino is named after him.First Pehr Löfling and then Linnaeus named the New World herb genus Allionia (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni.
Per Axel Rydberg named the genus Allioniella (now Mirabilis), after him.
Also named after him are: Arabis allionii Jovibarba allioni Primula allioni Veronica allionii