page_title: Giuseppe Giacinto Moris
hierarchical_section_title: Giuseppe Giacinto Moris
caption_attribution_description: Giuseppe Giacinto Moris. Pencil drawing by C. E. Liverati, 1841. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Giuseppe Giacinto Moris; portrait drawings
context_page_description: Giuseppe Giacinto Moris was an Italian botanist known for investigations of flora native to Sardinia.
  He studied medicine in Turin, from where he graduated while still in his teens. From 1822 to 1829, he worked as a professor at the University of Cagliari, afterwards returning to Turin as a professor at the university. Here, he was director of its botanical garden from 1831 until 1869.
  He was the binomial authority of the genus Ridolfia as well as of numerous plant species. In 1832, Jaques Étienne Gay named the genus Morisia in his honor.
context_section_description: Giuseppe Giacinto Moris (25 April 1796, Orbassano – 18 April 1869, Turin) was an Italian botanist known for investigations of flora native to Sardinia.
  He studied medicine in Turin, from where he graduated while still in his teens. From 1822 to 1829, he worked as a professor at the University of Cagliari, afterwards returning to Turin as a professor at the university. Here, he was director of its botanical garden from 1831 until 1869.
  He was the binomial authority of the genus Ridolfia (family Apiaceae) as well as of numerous plant species. In 1832, Jaques Étienne Gay named the genus Morisia (family Brassicaceae) in his honor.
caption: Giuseppe Giacinto Moris, pencil drawing by Carlo Ernesto Liverati.
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