# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luigi-aloysius-colla
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:05:29.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luigi-aloysius-colla"
name: "Luigi Aloysius Colla"
slug: "luigi-aloysius-colla"
description: "Luigi Aloysius Colla was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798, to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term. In 1820 Colla described two species, Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata, that are the basis for almost all cultivated bananas. Colla was a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences."
tagline: "Piemontese lawyer, politician and botanist (1766–1848)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colla_Luigi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1766-04-30"
deathDate: "1848-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.537257333333335
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  profileCompleteness:  60
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ranks:
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    title: "Луїджі Алоїзій Колла"
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    title: "Luigi Aloysius Colla"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Colla"
    title: "Luigi Colla"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Колла, Луиджи Алоизий"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Aloysius_Colla"
    title: "Luigi Aloysius Colla"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump