Tomaso Catullo (1782-1869) was an Venetian physician, geologist, paleontologist, zoologist and educator of outstanding work in the Università di Padova. 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 Padova 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.