The protagonists
RESEARCH ON LAKE TOVEL
Limnologists, naturalists, alpinists, researchers and writers, From the Nineteenth century up to our days.
Caprino Veronese, 1714 – Venezia, 1795
Researcher and professor of chemistry, metallurgy and mineralogy.
Attilio Arrighetti
Milano 1921 – Trento 2003
Naturalist, Ecologist, Forestry, Botanist, University Professor.
Edgardo Baldi
Milano, 1899 – Pallanza, 1951
Biologist; director of the Italian Institute of Hydrobiology “Dr. Marco De Marchi”, Pallanza.
Giorgio Bassani
Bologna, 1916 – Roma, 2000
Italian writer, poet and politician, founder and president of Italia Nostra from 1965 to 1980.
Cesare Battisti
Trento, 1875 – Trento, 1916
Italian patriot, journalist, geographer, socialist politician and irredentist.
Alfons Benedikter
Pettneu am Arlberg, 1918 – Bolzano, 2010
Italian politician, one of the protagonists of the construction and application of the South Tyrolean autonomy.
Antonio Cederna
Milano, 1921 – Sondrio, 1996
Italian journalist, environmentalist, politician and intellectual.
Alberto De Agostini
Pollone, 1883 – Torino, 1960
Italian presbyter, geographer, alpinist, cartographer, photographer, ethnologist, writer, filmmaker and naturalist, famous for his explorations of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
Giovanni De Agostini
Pollone, 1863 – Milano, 1941
Italian publisher, geographer and cartographer, publisher of De Agostini Company.
Marco De Marchi
Milano, 1872 – Varenna, 1936
Italian business owner, naturalist and philanthropist.
Charles Sutherland Elton
Manchester, 1900 – Oxford, 1991
British zoologist and ecologist.
François-Alphonse Forel
Morges, 1841 – Morges, 1912
Swiss scientist, pioneer in the study of lakes, considered the founder of limnology.
Alessandro Ghigi
Bologna, 1875 – Bologna, 1970
Italian zoologist, naturalist and environmentalist.
Valerio Giacomini
Fagagna, 1914 – Roma, 1981
Italian botanist, ecologist and academic.
Giorgio Grigolli
Mori, 1927 – Trento, 2016
Italian politician and journalist, president of the autonomous Province of Trento from 1974 to 1979.
Bruno Kessler
Peio, 1924 – Trento, 1991
Italian politician, president of the Autonomous Province of Trento from 1960 to 1974.
Vittorio Marchesoni
Malé, 1912 – Padova, 1963
Italian academic, discoverer in 1954 of Chirocephalus marchesonii in Lake Pilato.
Giovanni Marcora
Inveruno, 1922 – Inveruno, 1983
Italian partisan, entrepreneur and politician, as well as several times minister of the Italian Republic.
Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Siena, 1501 – Trento, 1578
Italian humanist, physician and botanist.
Giuseppe Montalenti
Asti, 1904 – Roma, 1990
Italian biologist, geneticist and academic.
Rina Monti Stella
Arcisate, 1871 – Pavia, 1937
Italian scientist. Biologist, physiologist, limnologist and zoologist, in 1907 she was the first woman to obtain a university chair in the Kingdom of Italy.
Marco Nozza
Caprino Bergamasco, 1926 – Milano, 1999
Italian journalist and essayist.
Arturo Paganelli
Camerino 1927 – Padova 2015
Professor of Botany.
Much of his professional life was dedicated to three botanical topics of great historical and cultural interest: the Botanical Garden of Camerino, Lake Tovel and the Botanical Garden of Padua.
Pietro Parenzan
Pola, 1902 – Taranto, 1992
Biologist, university professor and founder of the Porto Cesareo Marine Biology Station.
Pietro Pavesi
Pavia, 1844 – Asso, 1907
Italian naturalist, arachnologist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, zoologist, historian and academic.
Franco Pedrotti
Trento, 1934
Italian botanist, cartographer, ecologist and academic.
Livia Pirocchi Tonolli
Milano, 1909 – Verbania, 1985
Italian limnologist. From 1967 to 1977 she was director of the Italian Institute of Hydrobiology, Pallanza. In 1974 she received the Silver Medal for merit in the field of culture, science and art from the President of the Italian Republic and in 1983 she was awarded the highest recognition in the field of limnology, the “E. Naumann – A. Thienemann medal de limnologiae optime merit ”of the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae; in addition, she was awarded the gold medal of the Italian Society of Limnology.
Fulco Pratesi
Roma, 1934
Italian environmentalist, journalist, illustrator and politician, founder of WWF Italy, and now honorary president.
conti Spaur
The archive of the Counts Spaur of Castel Valer, declared of considerable historical interest in 1964 and purchased by the Autonomous Province of Trento in 2012, is an important documentary complex consisting of 1459 archival units, including 619 parchments (the oldest of 1285), 114 registers and an epistolary of about 7,000 letters, from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century, for a complex of about 15 meters of documentation.
Gino Tomasi
Trento, 1927 – Trento, 2014
Italian naturalist, entomologist and botanist.
Vittorio Tonolli
Milano, 1913 – Verbania, 1967
Italian limnologist. In 1950 he became director of the Italian Institute of Hydrobiology, a position he held until his death.
Giovanni Battista Trener
Fiera di Primiero, 1877 – Trento, 1954
Italian geologist, director of the Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences from 1922 to 1932 and from 1946 to 1954.
Karl Vaja
Bolzano, 1925 – Egna, 2007
Italian politician, German-speaking South Tyrolean.
Sergio Venzo
Rovereto, 1908 – Parma, 1978
Italian geologist, paleontologist and academic.
The protagonists of the most recent years are the researchers who took part in the SALTO project, coming from different institutions listed below:
Studio sul mancato arrossamento del lago di Tovel – Il Progetto SALTO (2001-2004)
Archival sources about Lake Tovel
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