> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 28](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120159) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/126-1) LSID 126-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321358) QID Q321358 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Aldrovandi, Ulisse (1522-1605), Italian botanist and pharmacologist, professor of botany at Bologna, author of several encyclopaedic works on natural history. **Abbreviated name**: *Aldrovandi* \[standard form in IPNI: *Aldrovandi*\] #### Herbarium and types At Bologna University (not at [[Collection BOLO|BOLO]]). Aldrovandi left his collections and library to the town of Bologna. The oldest collections date from 1551 or 1554. The herbarium was made for the collections of the public *Museum rerum naturalium* of Bologna, the first institutional herbarium: 17 folio-volumes, 4.378 sheets, with *ca*. 4760 plants stuck on the sheets. \[The Museum contained also 18 volumes of drawings of plants and animals and was associated with the botanic garden. This made it one of the first modern public natural history museums\]. The Aldrovandi herbarium is the biggest of the sixteenth century herbaria and gives the most complete picture of the plant world as known at the time in Italy. The herbarium is not systematically arranged. On 5 July 1796 the French revolutionary armies confiscated the herbarium and sent it to Paris together with the volumes of drawings. The collections were returned to the Bologna University Library in 1815. In 1875 it was sent to the botanic garden, now it is again at the University. Aldrovandi also sent herbarium specimens to Mattioli. *Ref*.: IH 2: 30. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 1: 52. 1843. - Saint-Lager, Histoire des herbiers 30-44 (1885). - De Toni, Atti r. Ist. Ven. Sci. 1907/08: 1549-1605, also as reprint, 116 p., Venetia 1908. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 32; BM 1: 26-27; Frank p. 4; LS 802; Moebius p. 419, 423; NI 14-15; PR 93-94; Quenstedt p. 6-7; Saccardo 1: 13, 2: 8-9. - Mattirolo, L'opera botanica di Ulisso Aldrovandi (1549-1605). Bologna 1897, xxx, 136 p. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 159. 1903, 3(3): 174. 1905. - Milner, Gat. portr. Kew 3. 1906. - Mattirolo, Mem. r. Accad. Sci. Torino ser. 2. 44: \[355\]-401. 1904 (corr.) - Cermenati, Ann. di Bot. 4: 313-366. 1906. - De Toni, Atti r. Ist. Veneto Sci. 69: 815-825. 1909-10. - Petri, Mem. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna ser. I. 1: 5-55. 1954. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 17-18. 1966. - Castellani, DSB 1: 108-110. 1970 (q.v. for further literature). - Smit, Hist. life sciences 1037 \[index\]. 1974. #### Eponymy *Aldrovanda* Linnaeus (1753); *Aldrovandia* E. H. L. Krause (1902, *orth. var.*)