Orazio Antinori

Orazio Antinori ( born October 28, 1811 in Perugia, † August 26 1882 in Shewa, Ethiopia ) was an Italian zoologist and traveler.

Biography

Orazio Antinori studied natural sciences in Perugia and Rome. Antoniori ' supported Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte in setting up his zoological collections and drew for his book Iconografia della Fauna Italica.

In the mid-1840s, he participated in political aspirations and was there also a journalist. He fought in 1848 in Velletri against the Neapolitans, and was in the rank of captain in the defense of Rome. The arrival of the French troops drove him into exile.

He went to Athens and a year later to Smyrna, he the center of his scientific, especially ornithological, went on excursions. In 1854 Antoniri accompanied the Princess Cristina Belgiojoso to Syria, then returned to Smyrna, and wandered here from all over Asia Minor.

In 1859 he went to Egypt and traveled 1860-61 with Carlo Piaggia the upper Nilländer. His valuable ornithological collection he sold after his return to the museum in Turin and delivered via the same of an excellent catalog ( Milan 1864). After spending several years in Italy, he made ​​a trip to Tunisia was in 1869 at the opening of the Suez Canal from among the representatives of Italy and then joined the expedition Sapetos and Beccaris to Abyssinia, where he remained for a long time and kept rich zoological harvest. On his return to Italy, Antinori was appointed secretary of the Italian Geographical Society ( in Rome).

In 1874 he went to explore the bulkhead to Tunis, and in 1876 he led an expedition to Central Africa. He came from the bosom of Aden off after Shoah, and died there August 26, 1882 in the Italian station LET Marefià in Ethiopia.

Works

  • . Descrittivo Catalogo di una collezione di uccelli, fatta nell'interno dell'Affrica centrale North dal 1859 al maggio luglio 1861 Milano 1864 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.48862
  • Viaggio dei Signori O. Antinori, O. Beccari ed A. Issel nel mar Rosso nel territorio dei Bogo e regioni circostanti durante gli anni 1870-71. Genoa 1873 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.53555

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  • Zoologist
  • Italian
  • Person (Perugia )
  • Born in 1811
  • Died in 1882
  • Man
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