Gonçalo Sampaio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gonçalo Sampaio

Portuguese anthropologist and botanist

Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1865

Place of Birth: Póvoa de Lanhoso, Braga District, Portugal

Date of Death: 27-Jul-1937

Profession: university teacher, botanist, anthropologist

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Gonçalo António da Silva Ferreira Sampaio (29 March 1865 in São Gens de Calvos – 28 July 1937 in Porto) was a Portuguese botanist. He studied mathematics at the University of Coimbra and chemistry, mineralogy and botany at the Polytechnic Academy of Porto.
From 1890 he served as an assistant naturalist at the Polytechnic Academy.
From 1912 to 1935 he was a professor of botany at the faculty of sciences of the University of Porto. As a taxonomist he described around 50 new species of vascular plants, five new species of desmids and about 70 new taxa of lichens that included the genus Carlosia (family Caliciaceae).
The mycological genus Sampaioa (Gonz.
Frag., 1923; syn.
Mycoglaena) commemorates his name.