Tomaso Catullo

Tomaso Catullo (1782–1869) was a Venetian medical doctor, geologist, paleontologist, zoologist and educator of outstanding work in the University of Padua.

He was born in Belluno, Northern Italy, the son of a middle-class Venetian family. He did his elemental studies in his hometown and was graduated from the University of Padua around 1806. In 1811, he was appointed, Professor of Natural History in Lyceum of Belluno. For his outstanding work Catullo gets, Chair of Natural History in the University of Padua, in the year 1829. He also received an honorary doctorate delivered by the University of Padua in 1833.

In 1840 he was appointed as a member of Accademia nazionale delle scienze. He was the author of numerous publications, including Manuale mineralogico, 1812, Saggio di zoologia fossile, 1827, Catalogo ragionato degli animali vertebrati, 1838, Osservazioni sopra uno scritto del Achille de Zigno, 1847, and Dei terreni di sedimento superiore delle Venezie, 1856.