BRESADOLA, GIACOMO. - Priest, mycologist, b. at Ortisei (Trento) on 14 Feb. 1847, d. at Trento on 9 June 1927. A priest in 1870, chaplain in various places, parish priest at Magnas, he moved in 1884 to Trento; first administrator of the Cathedral Chapter, then as a pensioner. On the occasion of his 80th birthday he was appointed by Pius XI a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Nuovi Lincei.
He studied fungi with passion, particularly the micromycetes and basidiomycetes, revising and arranging the catalogues of species, finding others that were new and maintaining correspondence with all the best mycologists in the world. He published, besides many articles in specialized journals: Funghi mangerecci e velenosi nell'Europa media (Milan 1879); Fungi tridentini novi et nondum delineati, descripti et iconibus illustrati (I, Trento 1881; II, ibid. 1892-1900). His scientific output was collected and published under the care of G. B. Traverso in 26 vols. with 1000 plates (Milan 1917-33). We thus have described, besides the others, more than 1000 new species. The herbaria he assembled and which were purchased by scientific museums of Europe and America were also sought after.
Bibliography5 worksG. Catoni, L'ab. B. per l'80° compleanno 1847-1927, Trento 1927; Don G. B. micologo, in La Civ. Catt., 1927, II, 142-47; L. Fenaroli, L'ab.
BIBL.: G. Catoni, L'ab. B. per l'80° compleanno 1847-1927, Trento 1927; Don G. B. micologo, in La Civ. Catt., 1927, II, 142-47; L. Fenaroli, L'ab. G. B. e la sua opera micologica, in Vie d'Italia, 33 (1927), 1912 ff.; F. Napoli, L'abate G. B., 1847-1929, in Atti Pontif. Acc. delle Scienze, Nuovi Lincei, 83 (1930), 133-70; G. B. Traverso, Biografia (Iconographica mycologica, 26), Milano 1933.
Celestino Testore
Testore, Celestino. “Bresadola, giacomo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 61–62. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bresadola-giacomo.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Bresadola, giacomo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 61–62. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bresadola-giacomo.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_bresadola_giacomo,
author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Bresadola, giacomo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {61--62},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bresadola-giacomo}
}
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