Luigi Ferdinando, count de Marsigli
Luigi Ferdinando, count de Marsigli (July 10th 1658, Bologna - November 1st 1730, Bologna) is a geographer and a Italian Naturaliste .
Member of the one of the most former patricians families, its tutors are among the best professors of his time. It is interested particularly in the Mathématiques, the Anatomie and the Natural history.
As from 1679, it fights, on behalf of the République of Venice initially then for that of the Léopold I {{er}} of Habsbourg (1640-1705) the Turkish S which threaten to invade the Hungary. It is captured in 1683 and is reduced to the slave. It will be slackened one year later after the payment of a ransom.
On its return, it is charged with the organization of the borders between the Republic of Venice, the Ottoman Empire and of the Germanic Holy roman Empire. During the war of the succession of Spain, it assists ordering fortress of Brisach, the count d' Arco who goes in 1703 and is decapitated.
In spite of this military career, the count de Marsigli always finds time for his studies. He draws plants, fact of the astronomical observations, studies fauna, minerals and the fossils… And each time it can it, during its displacements, collects specimens and antiquities of all kinds.
He presents his collection to the senate of Bologna in 1712 before opening his Institut of sciences and arts (probably in 1715). Six professors are in charge of the various fields of the Institute to which will be later added a printing works able to carry out documents in Latin, in Greek, Hebrew and Arab. This one is managed by Dominicain S.
In Danubius Pannonico-mysicus , published in $the Hague in 1726, Marsigli appears (a little briefly) the Oiseau X but also their nests and their eggs.
In 1727, it increases its collections further, of the objects or the samples coming from Asia which it collected at the time of voyage in Great Britain and with the Netherlands.
Among its publications, we can quote:
- internal Osservazioni Al Bosforo Tracio (Rome, 1681).
- physical History of the sea (Amsterdam, 1725).
- Danubius Pannonico-mysicus, observationibus… ($the Hague, 1726).
- the military State of the Ottoman Empire (Amsterdam, 1732).
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