Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Born(1723-06-03)3 June 1723
Cavalese, Val di Fiemme, Holy Roman Empire
Died8 May 1788(1788-05-08) (aged 64)
Pavia
Occupationsplant scientist, pteridologist, chemist, zoologist, ornithologist, physician, biologist, lepidopterologist, arachnologist, mycologist, earth scientist, university professor
Scientific career
Fields

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian medical doctor and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

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