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Baldacci, Antonio (1867-1950)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Antonio
Last name
Baldacci
Initials
A.
Life Dates
1867 - 1950
Collecting Dates
1880 - 1899
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), FI (main), B, BOLO, BP, BR, E, F, G, GB, GE, HBG, K, LAU, LE, M, MANCH, P, PI, PR, TO, W
Countries
Europe: Greece, Italy, Albania
Biography
Italian botanist, geographer and political advisor who collected plants in the Balkans and Greece.Antonio Baldacci studied veterinary medicine at the University of Bologna and after graduating in 1891 taught botany and geography there. In 1901 he was appointed as an assistant in the university's Botanical Institute, but he moved to Rome the following year as a teacher of geography and politics in the Colonial School attached to the University of Rome.
Baldacci had an abiding interest in botany, having begun as early as 1885 to make collections of plants in Montenegro. In 1904 the Italian Geographic Society financed him to make a collecting trip to the Balkan countries, where he gathered thousands of specimens and also promoted Italian trade interests.
Between 1905 and 1908 Baldacci undertook studies of the politico-social culture of Calabria on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education and in 1907 was appointed deputy director of the Botanical Garden of Palermo, though he was not often present there. Baldacci meanwhile stepped up his political career, reporting on politics and economics in Montenegro for the Italian government. He thereafter occupied a number of governmental positions, largely as an advisor on foreign politics. In the early 1920s he devoted himself to the cause of Montenegran independence and from 1925 was mostly concerned with Albanian politics. He served as Honorary Consul General of Albania in Bologna from 1931-1939 and then as Lieutenant-General in Albania until the German occupation of 1943.
Kew received botanical collections made by Baldacci in Montenegro numbering nearly 2,000 up to the year 1900. He made eight separate journeys to Albania between 1894 and 1902, collections from which were deposited at the herbarium of the Paris Museum of Natural History via Drake del Castillo.
Sources:
G. Sayre, 1975, "Cryptogamae Exsiccatae: an annotated bibliography of exsiccatae of algae, lichens, hepaticae, and musci. V. Unpublished Exsiccatae: I. Collectors", Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 19(3): 286
1926, Journal of Botany, 63: 316.
Baldacci had an abiding interest in botany, having begun as early as 1885 to make collections of plants in Montenegro. In 1904 the Italian Geographic Society financed him to make a collecting trip to the Balkan countries, where he gathered thousands of specimens and also promoted Italian trade interests.
Between 1905 and 1908 Baldacci undertook studies of the politico-social culture of Calabria on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education and in 1907 was appointed deputy director of the Botanical Garden of Palermo, though he was not often present there. Baldacci meanwhile stepped up his political career, reporting on politics and economics in Montenegro for the Italian government. He thereafter occupied a number of governmental positions, largely as an advisor on foreign politics. In the early 1920s he devoted himself to the cause of Montenegran independence and from 1925 was mostly concerned with Albanian politics. He served as Honorary Consul General of Albania in Bologna from 1931-1939 and then as Lieutenant-General in Albania until the German occupation of 1943.
Kew received botanical collections made by Baldacci in Montenegro numbering nearly 2,000 up to the year 1900. He made eight separate journeys to Albania between 1894 and 1902, collections from which were deposited at the herbarium of the Paris Museum of Natural History via Drake del Castillo.
Sources:
G. Sayre, 1975, "Cryptogamae Exsiccatae: an annotated bibliography of exsiccatae of algae, lichens, hepaticae, and musci. V. Unpublished Exsiccatae: I. Collectors", Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 19(3): 286
1926, Journal of Botany, 63: 316.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 44; Holmgren, P., Holmgren, N.H. & Barnett, L.C., Index Herb., ed. 8 (1990): 190; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 5; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 51; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 109;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Antonio
Last name
Baldacci
Initials
A.
Life Dates
1867 - 1950
Collecting Dates
1880 - 1899
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), FI (main), B, BOLO, BP, BR, E, F, G, GB, GE, HBG, K, LAU, LE, M, MANCH, P, PI, PR, TO, W
Countries
Europe: Greece, Italy, Albania
Biography
Italian botanist, geographer and political advisor who collected plants in the Balkans and Greece.Antonio Baldacci studied veterinary medicine at the University of Bologna and after graduating in 1891 taught botany and geography there. In 1901 he was appointed as an assistant in the university's Botanical Institute, but he moved to Rome the following year as a teacher of geography and politics in the Colonial School attached to the University of Rome.
Baldacci had an abiding interest in botany, having begun as early as 1885 to make collections of plants in Montenegro. In 1904 the Italian Geographic Society financed him to make a collecting trip to the Balkan countries, where he gathered thousands of specimens and also promoted Italian trade interests.
Between 1905 and 1908 Baldacci undertook studies of the politico-social culture of Calabria on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education and in 1907 was appointed deputy director of the Botanical Garden of Palermo, though he was not often present there. Baldacci meanwhile stepped up his political career, reporting on politics and economics in Montenegro for the Italian government. He thereafter occupied a number of governmental positions, largely as an advisor on foreign politics. In the early 1920s he devoted himself to the cause of Montenegran independence and from 1925 was mostly concerned with Albanian politics. He served as Honorary Consul General of Albania in Bologna from 1931-1939 and then as Lieutenant-General in Albania until the German occupation of 1943.
Kew received botanical collections made by Baldacci in Montenegro numbering nearly 2,000 up to the year 1900. He made eight separate journeys to Albania between 1894 and 1902, collections from which were deposited at the herbarium of the Paris Museum of Natural History via Drake del Castillo.
Sources:
G. Sayre, 1975, "Cryptogamae Exsiccatae: an annotated bibliography of exsiccatae of algae, lichens, hepaticae, and musci. V. Unpublished Exsiccatae: I. Collectors", Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 19(3): 286
1926, Journal of Botany, 63: 316.
Baldacci had an abiding interest in botany, having begun as early as 1885 to make collections of plants in Montenegro. In 1904 the Italian Geographic Society financed him to make a collecting trip to the Balkan countries, where he gathered thousands of specimens and also promoted Italian trade interests.
Between 1905 and 1908 Baldacci undertook studies of the politico-social culture of Calabria on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education and in 1907 was appointed deputy director of the Botanical Garden of Palermo, though he was not often present there. Baldacci meanwhile stepped up his political career, reporting on politics and economics in Montenegro for the Italian government. He thereafter occupied a number of governmental positions, largely as an advisor on foreign politics. In the early 1920s he devoted himself to the cause of Montenegran independence and from 1925 was mostly concerned with Albanian politics. He served as Honorary Consul General of Albania in Bologna from 1931-1939 and then as Lieutenant-General in Albania until the German occupation of 1943.
Kew received botanical collections made by Baldacci in Montenegro numbering nearly 2,000 up to the year 1900. He made eight separate journeys to Albania between 1894 and 1902, collections from which were deposited at the herbarium of the Paris Museum of Natural History via Drake del Castillo.
Sources:
G. Sayre, 1975, "Cryptogamae Exsiccatae: an annotated bibliography of exsiccatae of algae, lichens, hepaticae, and musci. V. Unpublished Exsiccatae: I. Collectors", Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 19(3): 286
1926, Journal of Botany, 63: 316.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 44; Holmgren, P., Holmgren, N.H. & Barnett, L.C., Index Herb., ed. 8 (1990): 190; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 5; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 51; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 109;
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