Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli

Italian zoologist (1800-1874)

Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli

Born	(1800-09-01)1 September 1800 Milan
Died	15 November 1874(1874-11-15) (aged 74) Pavia
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Naturalist

Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli (1 September 1800, in Milan – 15 November 1874, in Pavia) was an Italian naturalist.

He became a professor of mineralogy and zoology at the University of Pavia in 1851, and was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in 1863. He was interested in various domains of natural history, and identified the fungus responsible for the white muscardine disease of silkworms, Beauveria bassiana.^[1]

With Giuseppe De Notaris, he published Prodromus bryologiae Mediolanensis (1834).^[2]

The standard author abbreviation Bals.-Criv. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[3]

References

^ Zimmermann, Gisbert (2007). "Review on safety of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Beauveria brongniartii". Biocontrol Science and Technology. 17 (6). Taylor & Francis: 553–596. Bibcode:2007BioST..17..553Z. doi:10.1080/09583150701309006. ISSN 0958-3157. S2CID 85350953. p. 556:
Biological properties of Beauveria spp.
History
...The early history of B. bassiana started in 1835. It was Agostino Bassi di Lodi from Italy... He observed a disease in silkworms, Bombyx mori, which he called 'white muscardine' and started the first infection experiments. The fungus was then studied and described by the famous Italian naturalist Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli in 1835, who gave it the name Botrytis bassiana, in honour of Bassi (Steinhaus 1949; Müller-Kögler 1965; Rehner 2005).
In 1911, Beauverie studied the fungus again and in 1912 Vuillemin created the new genus Beauveria in honor of Beauverie, of which the species B. bassiana became the type.
^ Prodromus bryologiae Mediolanensis HathiTrust Digital Library
^ International Plant Names Index. Bals.-Criv.