Antonino de Bivona-Bernardi

{{Short description|Sicilian botanist, bryologist and phycologist}} {{Infobox person | name = Antonino de Bivona-Bernardi | image = Bivona_Bernardi.png | image_size = 200px | caption = | birth_date = 1774<ref name="TL2"/> or 1778<ref name="SdS"/><ref name= "BS"/> | birth_place = Messina, Kingdom of Sicily | death_date = {{death year and age|1837|1774}} | death_place = Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | occupation = botanist }} '''Antonino''' (or ''Antonius'') '''de Bivona-Bernardi''' (1774<ref name="TL2">{{cite book |title=Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types |volume=I: A–G |edition=2nd |author1-last=Stafleu |author1-first=Frans Antonie |author1-link=Frans Stafleu |author2-last=Cowan |author2-first=Richard S. |year=1976 |author2-link=Richard Sumner Cowan |publisher=Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema |place=Utrecht |isbn=90-313-0225-2 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120354 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.48631 }}</ref> or 24 October 1778<ref name="SdS">{{cite web |url=http://math.unipa.it/~brig/sds/MATERIALI/Scienze%20Naturali/Sicilia_XVII-XX/Bio_Bivona_Bernardi_Antonino.htm |title=Antonino Bivona Bernardi |language=it |date=n.d. |accessdate=2015-01-04 |author-last=Key |author-first=Franco |website=Storia delle Scienze |publisher=University of Palermo, Faculty of Sciences }}</ref><ref name="BS">{{cite book |title=Bibliografia Siciliana |volume=I A-L |author1-last=Mira |author1-first=Giuseppe M. |year=1976 |publisher=Tipografia GB Gaudiano |place=Palermo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gGhAAAAMAAJ |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.48631 |isbn=9031302244 }}</ref> – 1837) was a Sicilian botanist, bryologist and phycologist.

He was born in Messina, but was orphaned as a child. He moved to Palermo with the uncle who adopted him. He originally pursued law, but changed his studies to the natural sciences and studied botany under Giuseppe Tineo, director of the Palermo Botanical Garden. After graduating, he travelled to Naples and elsewhere in Italy, making the acquaintance of scientists such as Michele Tenore and Vincenzo Petagna. Professor Francesco Ferrara of Palermo entered a public dispute about the deposits found in Sicily, which he (Antonino), had discovered and thought were fossils.<ref name="BS"/> He returned to Palermo upon the death of his uncle, and began to publish botanical works that had great impact in Italy and Europe. He founded the scientific journal "L'Iride" ("The Iris") and obtained the post of Inspector-General of Waters and Forests, but died in Palermo during the cholera epidemic of 1837.<ref name="SdS"/> His son Andrea Bivona was an agronomist and naturalist.

The genera ''Bivonaea'' and ''Bivonella'' (type of Fungi) are named for him.<ref name="TL2"/><ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

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