{{Short description|Argentine naturalist and professor (1862–1931)}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox scientist | native_name_lang = es | image = Miguel Lillo (1921).jpg | birth_name = Miguel Ignacio Lillo | birth_date = {{birth date |1862|07|26}} | birth_place = [[San Miguel de Tucumán|Tucumán]] | death_date = {{death date and age |1931|05|04 |1862|07|26}} | death_place = [[San Miguel de Tucumán|Tucumán]] | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | fields = [[botany]], [[zoology]] | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | awards = [[Francisco Pascasio Moreno|Francisco Moreno]] Prize, 1928<br> [[Honorary degree|Doctor ''Honoris Causa'']] | author_abbrev_bot = Lillo | author_abbrev_zoo = Lillo }} '''Miguel Ignacio Lillo''' (26 July 1862 &ndash; 4 May 1931) was an Argentine naturalist and professor.<ref>Miguel Lillo, birth, baptism certificate, Tucumán Cathedral, Baptism 1862.L18 F232</ref>

==Early life and education== Born in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman on 26 July 1862, Lillo was related to [[Lastenia Blanco]], and journalist, [[Emilio J. Schleh]]. Miguel Lillo studied at the National School of Tucumán, graduating in 1881, but could not afford to continue formal university studies.<ref name="Torres">{{cite web |first=Antonio |last=Torres |title=Una historia de Lillo para jóvenes |url=http://lillo.org.ar/revis/lillo/Lillo.pdf |language=es |publisher=Fundación Miguel Lillo |location=Tucumán |year=1970 |edition=2006 }}</ref><ref name="Usandivaras">{{cite web |first=Silvia E.T. |last=Usandivaras de Hlawaczek |url=http://www.archivo.unt.edu.ar/attachments/054_usandivaras.pdf |title=Algunas personalidades que influyeron al momento de creacion de la UNT|trans-title=Some personalities who influenced the moment of creation of the UNT |language=es |year=2009 |pages=105–115}}<!-- this appears to be an article from a journal or other work but it is not clear which --></ref>

==Career== Lillo was passionately devoted to various scientific studies, especially those pertaining to nature. After his formal education, he continued working as an assistant pharmacist in the Physics and Chemistry laboratories of the National College. By 1883, he had amassed a collection of plants from his local area comprising 700 specimens. He went to the [[National University of Córdoba]] for guidance from [[Federico Kurtz]] and the brothers, [[Oscar Döring|Oscar]] and [[Adolfo Döring]] and from whom he gained an appreciation of [[Taxonomy (biology)|classification]].<ref name="Jstor">{{cite journal |url=http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000005021 |title=Lillo, Miguel (1862-1931) |publisher=[[Jstor]] |date=19 April 2013|access-date=26 December 2015}}</ref>

In 1888 he published an interesting essay on the plants of Tucumán. Shortly after he was appointed assistant and student of [[Friedrich Schickendantz]], chemist and director of the Municipal Chemical office of Tucumán; a post to which Lillo succeeded in 1892. In 1905, he published ''{{lang|la|Fauna Tucumana, Aves}}'' (Fauna of Tucumán, Birds) containing their discoveries of new species; at that time already he had the largest collection of birds of his province. In 1914, the [[National University of La Plata]] awarded Lillo the title of ''[[Honorary degree|Doctor Honoris Causa]]''. After teaching chemistry and physics in the National School and the [[Normal school]], from 1914 he lectured at the [[National University of Tucumán]].

He was appointed director of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Tucumán and member of the National Commission of Argentina flora.

In 1918, he retired from teaching, but maintained the honorary position of director of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Tucumán.

In December 1930, and shortly before his death, he donated all his property to the National University of Tucumán; this consisted of extensive grounds, a considerable sum of money, an extensive library and his zoological and [[herbarium]] collections consisting of more than 20,000 specimens of 6,000 different species. With this donation the National University of Tucumán established the [[Fundación Miguel Lillo|Miguel Lillo Foundation]] in 1933.

Miguel Lillo died in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán on May 4, 1931.

==Activities== Miguel Lillo was an amateur naturalist: extremely shrewd and observant; erudite and gifted with an extraordinary scientific vocation. He specialised in botany, but also pursued other branches of science, including chemistry and zoology.

He was dedicated to scientific research alternating with teaching. He made a notable contribution to the knowledge of the trees of Argentina and the botanical family of [[Compositae]]. He was also a keen ornithologist, a discipline in which he also became an authority. His interests extended beyond sciences to language, studying both [[Ancient literature|classical literature]] and indigenous languages.

He was a competent [[phytogeography|phytogeographer]]. Expeditions undertaken between 1885 and 1916 familiarised him with the province of Tucumán. He also toured much of Argentina, from [[Buenos Aires]] to the north, expeditions to the provinces of [[Córdoba Province, Argentina|Córdoba]] and [[Santiago del Estero]] in 1885, to [[Cuyo, Argentina|Cuyo]] between 1890 and 1891, Buenos Aires and [[Santa Fe Province|Santa Fe]] from 1891 to 1902, to the [[Salta Province|province of Salta]] in 1894 and into Chile in 1895. Other expeditions included [[Formosa, Argentina|Formosa]], [[Chaco Province|Chaco]] and [[Mesopotamia, Argentina]], including [[Martín García Island]].

==Selected publications== * {{cite book |title=Notas ornitológicas |language=es|trans-title=Ornithological notes }} * {{citation |title=Sobre la determinación de la glucosa en los vinos y en los productos de la industria azucarera|language=es |trans-title=On the determination of glucose in wines and products of the sugar industry |first1=Miguel |last1=Lillo |first2=F.|last2=Schickendatz }} * {{cite book |title=Flora de la provincia de Tucumán |language=es |trans-title=Flora of the province of Tucumán |year=1888}} * {{citation |title=Sobre la existencia de una especie de heliocarpo en la Argentina (Tucumán y el Interior de Córdoba)|language=es |trans-title=Whether there is a kind of heliocarpo in Argentina (Tucumán and Cordoba Interior)| year=1888}} * {{citation |title=Flores de Tucumán, herbario de M.Lillo |language=es |trans-title=Flora of Tucumán, herbarium of M.Lillo}} ([[Exposition Universelle (1889)]], [[Paris]] * {{citation |title=Enumeración y descripción de las especies de animales indígenas con sus costumbres, daños y beneficios que ocasionan, más sus características |language=es |trans-title=List and description of species of indigenous animals with their customs, causing damage and benefits plus their characteristics |year=1889}} * {{citation |title=El cultivo del ramio en Tucumán |language=es |trans-title=The cultivation of Ramie in Tucumán }} * {{cite journal |title=Enumeración sistemática de las aves de la provincia de Tucumán |language=es |trans-title=Systematic enumeration of birds in the province of Tucumán |journal=Annals of the National Museum of Buenos Aires |volume=3 |number=VIII |year=1902}} * {{cite book |title=Fauna Tucumana. Aves|language=es |trans-title=Tucumana wildlife. Birds |url={{Google books|hiQiAQAAMAAJ|plainurl=true}}|publisher=Revista de Letras y Ciencias Sociales |location=Tucumán |year=1905}} * {{citation |title=Contribución al conocimiento de los árboles de la República Argentina|language=es |trans-title=Contribution to the knowledge of trees in Argentina |year=1910}} * {{cite journal |title=Descripción de plantas nuevas pertenecientes a la Flora Argentina| language=es |trans-title=Description of new plants belonging to the Argentina Flora (Ilex prunus, [[Blepharocalyx]]) |journal=Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina |volume=LXXII |year=1911}} * {{citation |title=Description de deux nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux de la République Argentina |language=fr|trans-title=Description of two new species of birds of Argentina |first1=Miguel |last1=Lillo |first2=Roberto |last2=Dabbene |journal= Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, Buenos Aires |volume=XXIV |year=1913}} * {{citation |title=Las Asclepidáceas de la República Argentina|language=es |trans-title=The Asclepidáceas of the Argentine Republic |journal=Review of University Studies, Tucumán |year=1924}} * {{cite journal |title=Un cambio curioso de sexualidad |language=es |trans-title=A curious change of sexuality |journal=Ed. Darwiniana |year=1924}}

==Honours==

* [[Francisco Pascasio Moreno|Francisco Moreno]] Prize, 1928

===Eponyms=== * Faculty of Natural Sciences and Miguel Lillo Institute: one of the academic units of the National University of Tucumán * "Miguel Lillo Institute" and "Foundation Miguel Lillo" * "Barrio Miguel Lillo" San Miguel de Tucumán * Miguel Lillo Park, [[Necochea]], a public [[maritime forest]] [[nature reserve]] established in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.argentinaturismo.com.ar/necochea/parque-miguel-lillo.html|title=Parque Miguel Lillo|publisher=Argentina Turismo |access-date=30 November 2015}}</ref>

===Genera===

* ([[Araceae]]) ''[[Lilloa]]'' <small>[[Speg.]]</small><ref>{{cite journal |first=Carlos Luigi |last=Spegazzini |author-link=Carlos Luigi Spegazzini |title=Lilloa <!-- assumed title -->|journal=Pl. Nov. Argent. |issue=iii |year=1897 |volume=10}} ([[index Kewensis|IK]])</ref>

Some 113 species, including

*([[Acanthaceae]]) ''[[Chaetochlamys]] lilloi'' <small>[[J.L.Lotti]]</small><ref>{{cite journal |first=J.L. |last=Lotti |author-link=J.L.Lotti |title=Chaetochlamys lilloi <!-- assumed title -->|journal=Publ. Espec. Inst. Lillo |volume=1187 |number=63 |year=1976 }}([[index Kewensis|IK]])</ref> *(Acanthaceae) ''[[Justicia (plant)|Justicia]] lilloi'' <small>([[Lotti]]) [[C.Ezcurra]]</small><ref>{{cite book |first1=J.L. |last1=Lotti |first2=C. |last2=Ezcurra |author-link1=J.L.Lotti |author-link2=C.Ezcurra |editor-first= A.L. |editor-last=Cabrera| title=Justicia lilloi <!-- assumed title -->|work=Fl. Prov. Jujuy (INTA 13) |volume=9 |number=349 |year=1993}} ([[index Kewensis|IK]])</ref> *([[Pteridaceae]]) ''[[Notholaena]] lilloi'' <small>[[Cristóbal María Hicken|Hicken]]</small><ref>{{cite journal |first=Cristóbal María |last=Hicken |author-link=Cristóbal María Hicken|title=Notholaena lilloi <!-- assumed title -->|journal=Apuntes Hist. Nat. |volume=1 |number=117 |year=1909}} ([[Harvard University Herbaria|GCI]])</ref> *([[Asclepiadaceae]]) ''[[Matelea]] lilloana'' <small>([[Teodore Meyer|T.Mey.]]) [[Aida Pontiroli|Pontiroli]]</small><ref>{{cite journal |first1=Teodore |last1=Meyer |first2=Aida |last2=Pontiroli |author-link1=Teodore Meyer |author-link2=Aida Pontiroli |title=Matelea lilloana <!-- assumed title -->|journal=Fl. Prov. Jujuy |volume=pt. 8 |number=169 |year=1983}} ([[Harvard University Herbaria|GCI]])</ref> *([[Balanophoraceae]]) ''[[Juelia]] lilloana'' <small>[[Hermann Otto Sleumer|Sleumer]]</small><ref>{{cite journal |first=Hermann Otto|last=Sleumer |author-link=Hermann Otto Sleumer |title=Juelia lilloana <!-- assumed title -->|journal=Bot. Jahrb. Syst. |volume=lxxvi |number=276 |year=1954}} ([[index Kewensis|IK]])</ref> *([[Fabaceae]]) ''[[Lupinus]] lilloanus'' <small>[[Charles Piper Smith|C.P.Sm.]]</small><ref>{{cite journal |first=Charles Piper|last=Smith |author-link=Charles Piper Smith |title=Lupinus lilloanus <!-- assumed title -->|journal=Spec. Lupinorum |number=340 |year=1944}} cf. [[Harvard University Herbaria|Gray Herb. Card Cat.]] ([[index Kewensis|IK]])</ref> *(Fabaceae) ''[[Desmodium]] lilloanum'' <small>([[Schindl.]]) [[Arturo Eduardo Burkart|Burkart]]</small><ref>{{cite journal |first1=Anton Karl|last1=Schindler|first2=Arturo Eduardo |last2=Burkart |author-link1= Anton Karl Schindler |author-link2=Arturo Eduardo Burkart |title=Desmodium lilloanum <!-- assumed title -->|journal=Darwiniana |volume=3 |number=196 |year=1939}} ([[Harvard University Herbaria|GCI]])</ref>

{{botanist|Lillo|Lillo, Miguel}}

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== {{wikispecies}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.lillo.org.ar/ |title=Fundación Miguel Lillo |language=es }} * {{cite web |url=http://surdelsur.com/es/fundacion-miguel-lillo/ |title=Fundación Miguel Lillo lider en Latinoamérica|language=es |trans-title=Miguel Lillo Foundation leader in Latin America|publisher=El Sur del Sur |date=2014-09-04}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.archivo.unt.edu.ar/index.php/es/component/content/article/61-lillo/71-legajo-personal-del-dr-miguel-lillo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829094154/http://www.archivo.unt.edu.ar/index.php/es/component/content/article/61-lillo/71-legajo-personal-del-dr-miguel-lillo |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 29, 2010 |title=Miguel Lillo en el Archivo Histórico de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán |language=es |trans-title=Miguel Lillo in the Historical Archive of the National University of Tucuman |publisher=[[National University of Tucuman]] }}

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