{{Short description|Italian botanist and entomologist}} thumb|220px|right|Giovanni Passerini. '''Giovanni Passerini''' was an Italian botanist and entomologist, born on June 16, 1816, in Pieve di Guastalla. He died on April 17, 1893, in Parma .
In 1836 he studied medicine at the University of Parma, where from 1844 onward, he was a professor of botany and director of the Orto Botanico di Parma.<ref name=BH>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189562#page/106/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications</ref> He is the author of several works on the aphids. His collection, of 5,500 specimens in 52 genera kinds and 89 species, is in the natural history museum of the University of Parma.{{Citation needed|date=March 2016}}
In 1875, he was the first president of the Italian-Parma section of the Alpine Club (Club Alpino Italiano a Parma).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://caiparma.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60&Itemid=73 |title=Il CAI a Parma: la nostra storia |access-date=2016-03-02 |archive-date=2016-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307055537/http://caiparma.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60&Itemid=73 |url-status=dead }}</ref> With Vincenzo de Cesati and Giuseppe Gibelli, he was co-author of a compendium of Italian flora, titled "''Compendio della flora italiana''".<ref>[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009164903 Compendio della flora italiana] HathiTrust Digital Library</ref>
In 1875 Pier Andrea Saccardo named the fungal genus ''Passerinula'' in his honor.<ref name=BH/><ref name=GBIF>{{cite web |title=''Passerinula'' Sacc. |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/8624967 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=5 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Then in 1892, Augusto Napoleone Berlese named the fungal genus ''Passeriniella'' in his honor as well.<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 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>
==Major works== *Gli insetti autori delle galle del Terebinto e del Lentisco insieme ad alcune specie congeneri. Giornale Giardini Orticolt. 3: 258–265 (1856). *Gli afidi con un prospetto dei generi ed alcune specie nuove Italiane. Parma : Tipografia Carmignani 40 pp. (1860). *Aphididae Italicae hucusque observatae. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2: 129–212 (1863).
{{botanist|Pass.}}
==References== *Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. ''Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana'', 75 : 159–382. {{reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Passerini, Giovanni}} Category:1816 births Category:1893 deaths Category:People from Reggio Emilia Category:Academic staff of the University of Parma Category:Italian entomologists Category:19th-century Italian botanists Category:People from the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza