Giancarlo Ligabue (30 October 1931 – 25 January 2015) was an Italian paleontologist, scholar, politician and businessman.

Born in Venice, Ligabue graduated in economics at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and in Geology at la Sorbonne, and later he also received five honorary degrees from the universities of Bologna, Venice, Modena, Lima and Ashgabat.[1][2] He participated or directed over 130 expeditions around the world, and he made several paleontological discoveries, such as the Ligabueino, a noasaurid dinosaur named after him, and such as the unearthed deposits of hominid and dinosaurs fossils in the Ténéré desert.[1] He collaborated with Piero Angela to several science documentaries.[1] He was president of the Natural History Museum of Venice and founder of the Ligabue Study and Research Centre in Venice.[2]

Ligabue was also businessman in the field of supplies and services for ships.[1] He was the president of the basketball team Reyer Venezia Mestre between the early sixties and early eighties.[1] He was also a member of the European Parliament for Forza Italia within the Forza Europa group between 1994 and 1999.[1][3]

Biography

Anacleto's eldest son, Giancarlo Ligabue was president of the group of the same name from 1972 to 2008.

Dopo aver frequentato il Corso di Laurea in Economia a Venezia, Giancarlo ha proseguito gli studi con un dottorato di ricerca in Paleontology presso Paris-Sorbonne University, cui sono seguite altre quattro lauree honoris causa, e si è dedicato per tutta la vita a ricerche paleontologiche e archeologiche[4].

A resident of Venezia, he was president from 1978 to 2008 of the city's Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, to which he donated some 2,000 objects including fossils and ethnographic artifacts and the remains of an unknown species of Dinosaur the giant Ouranosaurus nigeriensis-recovered in the sands of the Niger Sahara by the 1973 expedition he led, and conducted together with archaeologist Gabriele Rossi Osmida.

In the early 1970s, he founded the Ligabue Research Study Center[5] and the semiannual thematic magazine “Ligabue Magazine” on archaeological, paleontological and naturalistic topics[6].

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Addio a Giancarlo Ligabue: Venezia piange il celebre imprenditore e paleontologo". RAI News. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Morto paleontologo Giancarlo Ligabue". Corriere della Sera. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Giancarlo Ligabue". European Parliament. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Morto paleontologo Giancarlo Ligabue".
  5. ^ "Centro Studi Ricerche Ligabue".
  6. ^ Ligabue Magazine Archived 22 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo_Ligabue
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