Pellegrino Strobel | |
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 Pellegrino Strobel | |
| Born | (1821-08-22)August 22, 1821 |
| Died | June 8, 1895(1895-06-08) (aged 73) |
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| Fields | zoology |
Pellegrino Strobel (22 August 1821 – 8 June 1895)[1] was an Italianornithologist,zoologist,naturalist and Italian politician. He is considered among the leaders of Italianmalacology and, withGaetano Chierici andLuigi Pigorini, is an important figure in Italianprehistoric archaeology.
Pellegrino Strobel was the fourth of the eight children of the Tyrolean nobleman Michael Ströbel, an official of the Habsburg government of theKingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. He was born in Milan, in thePalazzo Marino. In 1857 he moved toPiacenza then in 1859 toParma, where his father had obtained the position of councillor administration ofMarie Louise, Duchess of Parma.[1]
He was introduced to the study of natural history from a young age by his uncle Leonard Liebener, a well-known naturalist, andAlexander von Humboldt, a friend of the family. He attended the gymnasium inMerano and graduated in law at theUniversity of Innsbruck in 1842. He studied natural sciences at theUniversity of Pavia, but did not graduate, but was given the title doctor of natural sciences on March 10, 1872 while teaching inParma. He was a member of numerous scientific institutions of international importance: in 1857 he was appointed professor of natural history inPiacenza in the "optional" schools, then on 6 December 1859 he was appointed professor of natural history at theUniversity of Parma, where he was also a professor ofmineralogy,geology andzoology.[1]
He collaborated withLuigi Pigorini to study the lake-dwellingTerramara in a work which includedpaleontology,botany,zoology,entomology,palynology,geology,anthropology andarchaeology, to build a complete picture of theseBronze Age communities.[2]
In 1864 he was appointed to set up the Faculty of Natural Sciences at theUniversity of Buenos Aires. He participated in numerous exploration trips inPatagonia and theAndes, about which he published numerousanthropological andethnological studies and of which he would organize one of the most important collections of molluscs.[3]
He returned to Europe on the death of his father and resumed teaching at the University of Parma, of which he was elected rector in 1891. He is especially remembered for notable studies on theculture of the Terramare and on the civilizations of theBronze Age of Italy, as well as for his research on the molluscs of Italy.[1]
He died of heart disease in 1895 in his villa in Vignale, a hamlet in the commune ofTraversetolo, near Parma.[1] One of his two sons wasDaniele de Strobel, a well-known painter, mostly known for hisfresco work in Parma and Piacenza.[4]
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