Abundio Sagástegui Alva
| Abundio Sagástegui Alva | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 23, 1932 Guzmango, Contumazá Province, Peru |
| Died | May 26, 2012 (aged 79) Trujillo, Trujillo Province, Peru |
| Resting place | Cementerio General de Miraflores, Trujillo 8°06′04″S 79°01′28″W / 8.10108°S 79.02442°WCoordinates: 8°06′04″S 79°01′28″W / 8.10108°S 79.02442°W |
| Nationality | Peruvian |
| Alma mater | Universidad Nacional de Trujillo |
| Spouse(s) | Rita de Sagástegui |
| Children | 9 |
| Awards | Medalla de Honor del Congreso, member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Asteraceae systematics, flora of Peru |
| Institutions | Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Antenor Orrego Private University |
| Thesis | (1976) |
| Influences | Ángel Lulio Cabrera, Arnaldo López Miranda, Nicolás Angulo Espino |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Sagást. |
Abundio Sagástegui Alva (1932-2012) was a Peruvian plant taxonomist and specialist of Asteraceae and the flora of Peru, particularly that of Northern Peru.
Sagástegui was born to a modest family in Guzmango, Contumazá Province, in 1932. His father was Godofrego Sagástegui Chávez and his mother Otilia Alva. he went to the local school, where he finished first of his promotion. Thanks to this he was granted a scholarship and continued his studies at the Colegio Nacional San Ramón, in Cajamarca where again he excelled in his studies. This dedication allowed him to continue his studies at the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo (UNT), where he would eventually achieve the degree of doctor of biological science in 1976.
In 1956, after spending two years as a secondary education teacher in Otuzco, he entered the staff of the UNT where he would over the years teach botany and phytogeography—eventually achieving the title of exclusive main professor (profesor principal dedicación exclusiva)—as well as well as become the first official curator of the university's herbarium and then direct the botanical museum until his departure in 1988. He then went to Antenor Orrego Private University, where he worked for 17 years, during which he also achieved the grade of exclusive main professor as well as founding and directing the museum of natural history, the university herbarium and the journal Arnaldoa. In 2006 he went back to his alma mater UNT, where he would work until his death at the herbarium.
On the morning of May 26, 2012, he was grievously injured when he was hit by an unlicensed taxi driver in Trujillo. Following radiographies, he was transferred from Docente Regional Hospital to Víctor Lazarte Echegaray National Hospital, where he underwent overnight surgery, but never awoke from the operation and died at 4:00 pm the next day. He was survived by at least one brother, Vigilio, his wife Rita de Sagástegui and nine children. Although he had hoped some of them, who mostly became scientist, would take up this area of study, the closest he had was an agronomist. His funeral services were held at the UNT with speeches by several current and former officials of the University.
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