Bernardino da Ucria
Italian botanist
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Bernardino da Ucria's Degrees
- Doctorate Botany University of Palermo
Why Is Bernardino da Ucria Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Placido Michele Aurifici, better known as Bernardino da Ucria was a Sicilian friar and botanist. In 1766 he entered the Franciscan monastery of St Antony in Palermo, taking the name Bernardino, by which he is now known. He developed a keen interest in botany and in 1786 was appointed demonstrator in botany at the University of Palermo, in which capacity he was involved in the establishment and named custodian of the new Palermo Botanical Garden on the site that it still occupies. A keen student of Carl Linnaeus, he was responsible for the layout of the original section of garden on the basis of the Linnean system of classification. A sculpted bust of Bernardino by Mario Rutelli is situated in the garden.
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