Bartolomeo Biasoletto

Bartolomeo Biasoletto (24 April 1793, Vodnjan – 17 January 1858, Trieste) was a pharmacist, botanist and phycologist from the Austrian Empire.

In 1819 he met with David Heinrich Hoppe, director of the Regensburg Botanical Society, with whom he established a close friendship and a partnership for research.

[1] He is best known for his investigations of flora found in Istria and Carniola, and also for his studies of marine algae.

In 1836, in the retinue of Friedrich Augustus II of Saxony (who had a passion for botany), he participated in an extended excursion to Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro, about which, he published the treatise Viaggio di S.M.

[1] In 1837, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, a professor at the University of Erlangen, named the genus Biasolettia (synonym Geocaryum) in his honor.