Prospero Alpini

Prospero Alpini
Prospero Alpini (1553–1617)
Born23 November 1553
Died6 February 1617(1617-02-06) (aged 63)
NationalityVenetian
Alma materPadua University
Known forStudy of date palms
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Medicine
InstitutionsVenice, Genoa, Padua
Author abbrev. (botany)Alpino

Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 1553 – 6 February 1617)[1] was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. The ginger-family genus Alpinia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.

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