Giuseppe De Cristoforis

Giuseppe De Cristofori or De Cristofori ( born October 11, 1803 in Milan, † December 27, 1837 ) was an Italian naturalist and collector.

Giuseppe De Cristofori belonged to the Milanese nobility. He studied in Volterra and thus developed his passion for natural history.

From 1823 closed marriage two daughters were born, in 1831 his wife died. This year, he met the teaching at the University of Parma Austrian botanist Georg January know. In the summer of 1831, he earned his natural history collection and combined it with his own; so he made his home in the core of the future Museum of Natural History (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano ). He finally bequeathed his collection to the city of Milan under the condition for setting up a museum and to entrust Giorgio Jan. In his authority. After a few days illness, he died at the age of 34 years.

The mollusc collection of De Cristofori and Jan in Milano was destroyed in the Second World War.