Genus Aldrovanda
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For Ulysses Aldrovandus (Ulisse Aldrovandi) (1522–1605), Italian nobleman, botanist, pharmacologist, naturalist and entomologist. He studied medicine and philosophy at the universities of Bologna (1539) and Padua (1547), became professor of natural sciences at the University of Bologna (1561) and director of the botanical garden of Bologna, (1568) one of the first in Europe. He was the author of many publications and was considered by Linnaeus as the ‘father of natural history studies’. He developed one of the first museums of natural history, still at the university, containing 25 000 specimens, of which 7 000 were dried plants. He was the first person to describe insect parasitism. He coined the term ‘geology’ in 1603.