Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo

Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo was an Italian paleobotanist and lichenologist. He was born in Tregnago in the Province of Verona and took a great interest in botany as a young man. Massalongo joined the faculty of medicine at the University of Padua in 1844 and transferred to law, completing his studies in 1849. Along with Gustav Wilhelm Körber, he founded the "Italian-Silesian" school of lichenology. He also collaborated with Martino Anzi. He was the husband of Maria Colognato and the father of hepaticologist Caro Benigno Massalongo. He also worked in the scientific field of herpetology. Massalongo edited the exsiccata Lichenes Italici Exsiccati (1855-1856) and described 138 new lichen genera and several new lichen species. In 1859 his Catalogo dei rettili delle province venete was published in Venice.