Mutius von Tommasini
Joseph Ritter von Mutius alcohol Tommasini (Italian Muzio Giuseppe Spirito de Tommasini; born June 4, 1794 in Trieste, † December 31, 1879 ibid ) was from 1839 to 1860 mayor of Trieste. As a botanist, he explored the flora of Istria and published the first works on the flora of the peninsula. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Tomm. ".
Life
Mutius of Tommasini was born on 4 June 1794 in the at that time Austria belonging to the port city of Trieste, the son of a wealthy businessman. He attended high school in Ljubljana, where his interest was aroused for botany. When his home town of Trieste and Ljubljana were occupied by the French troops of Napoleon to Tommasini went to Vienna in 1811 to study medicine. Inspired by Joseph Franz von Jacquin, botanist and professor at the University of Vienna, Tommasini began to explore the flora in the area of Vienna. Due to a disease he had to quit his medical studies and returned to his home town of Trieste, which had become Austro again in the meantime. Later he studied law at the Karl- Franzens- University in Graz. Because of his studies, he gave his research as a botanist at first.
1817 Tommasini received his first job as a civil servant in the district office of Istria. In the following year he was promoted to District Secretary of Split and called a little later than Konzipist into Gubernium of Zadar. Only when Tommasini was appointed District Commissioner of Split in 1823, he resumed his work as a botanist again and undertook among other things, several research trips to the mountain Biokovo. In 1827 he was transferred to Kotor in Montenegro today and made numerous trips to the border with Albania. In the same year he was finally called back to his hometown of Trieste and had consequently exploring the Dalmatian flora give up. Despite his political career, he devoted himself from 1832 again his research and explored together with the botanists Biasoletto Bartolomeo ( 1793-1859 ) and Nicolas -Théodore de Saussure ( 1767-1845 ), the Austrian Littoral. 1837 Tommasini went along with the British botanist George Bentham ( 1800-1884 ) on a field trip to Friuli after Carniola and Carinthia.
1839 Tommasini was appointed mayor of Trieste. His scientific work was limited from this point to the immediate vicinity of Trieste, except for the ascent of Monte Matajur in Gorizia in 1840. To promote the exploration of the Austrian Littoral committed Tommasini 1841-1843 Munich botanist Otto Sendtner ( 1813-1859 ). The data collected by Sendtners plants are today the most valuable part of Tommasinis Herbarium. Tommasini was in the following years, in a lively exchange with botanists and promoted the creation of the Natural History Museum Museo di Storia Naturale, Trieste.
1860 Tommasini retired and devoted himself entirely to the study of the local flora.
Tommasini died on December 31, 1879 at the age of 85 years in Trieste from the effects of pneumonia.
Trivia
After Tommasini the elves crocus (Crocus tommasinianus ) was named.