Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze was a Belgian  doctor and entomologist born 22 February 1827 at Liège and dying in Glain , 30 June 1898.
He studied in Liege under Jean Theodore Lacordaire

Jean Théodore Lacordaire

Théodore Lacordaire or Jean Théodore Lacordaire was a Belgian entomologist of French extraction....

 (1801-1870), then studied medicine

Medicine

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 in Paris

Paris

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 and Liège. Following Lacordaire’s advice he joined the circle of entomologists in Liege which included his longstanding friend Félicien Chapuis

Félicien Chapuis

Félicien Chapuis was a Belgian doctor and entomologist.He specialised in Coleoptera and finished the text of Genera des coléoptères by Théodore Lacordaire when Lacordaire died....

 (1824-1879) and also Edmond de Sélys Longchamps

Edmond de Sélys Longchamps

Baron Michel Edmond de Sélys Longchamps was a Belgian liberal politician and scientist.Selys-Longchamps was regarded as the world's greatest authority on dragonflies and damselflies. His wealth and influence enabled him to amass one of the finest collections of neuropteroid insects and to describe...

  (1813-1900) and the English entomologist Robert Mac Lachlan

Robert Mac Lachlan

Robert McLachlan was an English entomologist, born on April 10 , 1837 in Ongar , Essex. He died on May 23 , 1904 in Lewisham , close to London. He was the son of Hugh Mc Lachlan. He was educated in Ilford and inherited sufficient money to enable him to devote himself enitirely to the study...

 (1837-1904).He took part in the foundation of the Belgian Entomological Society

Royal Belgian Entomological Society

The Royal Belgian Entomological Society is a learned society based in Brussels, Belgium which is devoted to entomology, the study of insects. It was founded on 9 April 1855...

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It was Lacordaire who encouraged him to specialize in Elateridae on which he published revisions of which the very rare Monographie of Elateridae (four volumes, Liege, 1857-1863) is important . He was a friend of the French editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel

Pierre-Jules Hetzel

Pierre-Jules Hetzel was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today...

 (1814-1886) who pressed him to write scientific novels in order to popularize entomology to a larger audience: Aventures d'un grillon, Adventures of a cricket (Paris, 1877), La Gileppe, les infortunes d'une population d'insectes , Gileppe, misfortunes of a population of insects (Paris, 1879), which had a certain success, and Périnette, histoire surprenante de cinq moineaux... Périnette, surprising history of five sparrows... (Paris, 1886). Also impassioned by photography

Photography

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, he developed a foldable camera which was a great success in Europe (and which was accompanied by his book the Le Scénographe, appareil photographique de poche..., Paris, 1875)

External links

• BHL Monographie of Elateridae