Giuseppe Monti

Giuseppe Monti (27 November 1682 – 29 February 1760) was an Italian chemist and botanist.

He was a professor of botany and from 1722 to 1760 director of the Bologna Botanical Garden.

His son Gaetano Lorenzo Monti (1712–1797) was also a botanist who continued work at the same botanical garden.

Monti discovered a fossil jawbone in the Alps and used it as support for the Biblical flood and both he and his son were among the last defenders of diluvialism among the naturalists of the period.

[citation needed] Several plant genera have been named in his honour, including in 1753, Carl Linnaeus published Montia from the family Montiaceae,[4] Then in 1898, botanist Otto Kuntze published Montiopsis, a genus of flowering plants from South America belonging to the family Montiaceae.