List of coleopterists
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Coleopterists from Austria
- Stephan von Breuning
- Karl Wilhelm von Dalla TorreKarl Wilhelm von Dalla TorreKarl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre was an Austrian taxonomist, entomologist and botanist.Dalla Torre studied natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck. He then worked in the University as an entomologist and in 1895 became Professor of Zoology at the University of Innsbruck...
- Caspar Erasmus DuftschmidCaspar Erasmus DuftschmidCaspar Erasmus Duftschmid properly Kaspar was an Austrian naturalist and physician who made significant contributions to entomology, especially Coleoptera.He was born in Gmunden 19 November 1767 and died in Linz 17 December 1821....
- Johann Angelo FerrariJohann Angelo FerrariJohann Angelo Ferrari Johann Angelo Ferrari Johann Angelo Ferrari (1806-18 May 1876, Vienna was an Austrian entomologist born in Italy who specialised in Coleoptera especially ScolytidaeHe is not to be confused with Pietro Mansueto Ferrari also a entomologist....
- Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef HellerKarl Borromaeus Maria Josef HellerKarl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller , was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera....
- Eduard KnirschEduard KnirschEduard Knirsch was an Austrian doctor and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He practised in dentist.His collection is in Museum Victoria, Australia and the Field Museum in Chicago....
- Johann Nepomuk von LaichartingJohann Nepomuk von LaichartingJohann Nepomuk von Laicharting was an Austrian entomologist. He was born in Innsbruck on 4 February 1754 and died in the same city on 7 May 1797, and was a Professor of Natural Science in Innsbruck. He described new species and genera,of Coleoptera in Verzeichniss und Beschreibung der...
- Johann Carl Megerle von MühlfeldJohann Carl Megerle von MühlfeldJohann Carl Megerle von Mühlfeld was a scientist and zoologist who lived from 1765 to 1840.He worked at the Vienna natural history museum, the Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, until he retired at the end of 1835.....
- Ludwig RedtenbacherLudwig RedtenbacherLudwig Redtenbacher Ludwig Redtenbacher Ludwig Redtenbacher (June 10, 1814 in Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria - February 8, 1876 in Vienna was an Austrian doctor and entomologist mainly interested in beetles....
- Pater Gabriel StroblGabriel StroblGabriel Strobl was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and entomologist who specialised in Diptera....
Coleopterists from Belgium
- Ernest CandèzeErnest CandèzeErnest 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 , then studied medicine in Paris and Liège...
- Félicien ChapuisFélicien ChapuisFélicien 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....
- Charles KerremansCharles KerremansCharles Kerremans was a Belgian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Buprestidae and Cicindelidae.He was a Member of the Société entomologique de France.-Publications:Partial list....
- Jean Théodore LacordaireJean Théodore LacordaireThéodore Lacordaire or Jean Théodore Lacordaire was a Belgian entomologist of French extraction....
- Auguste LameereAuguste LameereAuguste Alfred Lucien Lameere is a Belgian entomologist, born in 1862 in Ixelles, and died in 1942.He was a professor and dean of the faculty of sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles...
Coleopterists from England (United Kingdom)
- Anthony A. Allen
- Herbert Edward AndrewesHerbert Edward AndrewesHerbert Edward Andrewes was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Andrewes' initial training was at the forestry school in Nancy, France now INRA. In 1885 he entered the Indian Forest Service. His next post was at the British Museum where he specialised in Carabidae...
- Gilbert John ArrowGilbert John ArrowGilbert John Arrow was an English entomologist.Gilbert was the son of John Garner Arrow of Streatham, London. He initially trained as an architect but took an interest in insects from 1896 during which time he was a Deputy Keeper on the staff of the Natural History Museum in London from 1896 until...
- Joseph Sugar BalyJoseph Sugar BalyJoseph Sugar Baly was an English doctor and entomologist.Born in Warwick where he would also die, Baly was a specialist in Coleoptera: Phytophaga. His collection is in the Natural History Museum, London.-Works:...
- Henry Walter BatesHenry Walter BatesHenry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck...
- Thomas BlackburnThomas Blackburn (entomologist)Thomas Blackburn was an English-born Australian entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles.Born near Liverpool, England, Blackburn became interested in entomology in his youth...
(also Hawaii and Australia) - George Charles ChampionGeorge Charles ChampionGeorge Charles Champion was an English entomologist specialising in the study of beetles. He was the eldest son of George Champion....
- James CookJames CookCaptain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
Endeavour captain. - George CrabbeGeorge CrabbeGeorge Crabbe was an English poet and naturalist.-Biography:He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local doctor, who taught him little, and in 1771 he changed masters and moved to Woodbridge...
- George Robert CrotchGeorge Robert CrotchGeorge Robert Crotch was a British entomologist.Born in Cambridge, England 1842 Crotch became interested in insects, especially Coleoptera, while an undergraduate at Cambridge University. He worked at the University Library, Cambridge...
(also U.S.A.) - Roy CrowsonRoy CrowsonRoy Albert Crowson was a British biologist who specialized in the taxonomy of beetles.He lectured at the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow from 1949. He collected beetles and their larvae from around the world and studied the relationships between them...
- John CurtisJohn Curtis (entomologist)John Curtis was an English entomologist and illustrator.-Biography:Curtis was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles Morgan Curtis...
- Charles DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
- Horace DonisthorpeHorace DonisthorpeHorace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants.He is often considered...
- William Weekes FowlerWilliam Weekes FowlerWilliam Weekes Fowler was an English clergyman and entomologist mainly interested in beetles.-Biography:Son of the Reverend Hugh Fowler, Vicar of Barnwood, Gloucestershire, Fowler was educated at Rugby School and at Jesus College, Oxford. He became a Master at Repton School in 1873 and was...
- Alexander FryAlexander FryAlexander Fry was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.In 1838 Alexander Fry entered his father’s mercantile business house in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He became a partner in 1843.Except for once returning to England to marry he lived in Rio until 1854 when he moved to London...
- Henry Stephen GorhamHenry Stephen GorhamHenry Stephen Gorham was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society from 1885, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London from 1881; and a Member of the Societé Entomologique de France from 1887.He wrote very many short scientific...
- Edward Wesley JansonEdward Wesley JansonEdward Wesley Janson was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.The Janson family was of Dutch origin and Edward Wesley Janson's father was the London Agent of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company....
- Oliver Erichson JansonOliver Erichson JansonOliver Erichson Janson was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He was the son of Edward Wesley Janson and took over the family natural history and publishing business....
- Norman H. JoyNorman H. JoyNorman Humbert Joy was a British ornithologist and coleopterist.He is best known for his two-volume work A Practical Handbook of British Beetles, first published by H. F. & G. Witherby in January 1932, a publication which remained the standard work on the identification of British beetles into the...
- William Elford LeachWilliam Elford LeachWilliam Elford Leach FRS was an English zoologist and marine biologist.Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of a solicitor. At the age of twelve he went to school in Exeter, studying anatomy and chemistry. By this time he was already collecting marine samples from Plymouth Sound and along...
- John Henry LeechJohn Henry LeechJohn Henry Leech John Henry Leech John Henry Leech (5 December 1862- 29 December 1900, Salisbury was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.His collections from China , Japan and Kashmir are in the Natural History Museum , London.These contain also insects from...
- Thomas MarshamThomas MarshamThomas Marsham was an English entomologist, specializing on beetles.- Biography :He married a Miss Symes of Ufford, Northants, and had two daughters...
- Philip Brookes Mason
- Andrew MurrayAndrew Murray (botanist)Andrew Dickson Murray FRSE FLS was a Scottish lawyer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Murray studied insects which caused crop damage, specialising in the Coleoptera...
- Frederic John Sidney ParryFrederic John Sidney ParryFrederic John Sidney Parry was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, principally Lucanidae....
- David SharpDavid Sharp (entomologist)David Sharp FRS was an English physician and entomologist who worked mainly on Coleoptera.David Sharp was born at Towcester on 18 October, 1840. Some twelve years later his parents removed to London, where therefore, as a boy he received his education. After attending one or two preparatory...
- William Edward ShuckardWilliam Edward ShuckardWilliam Edward Shuckard was an English bookseller and entomologist.He was also librarian of the Royal Society and translated Manual of Entomology Hermann Burmeister .He was a specialist in Hymenoptera but worked onColeoptera in his early years).-Publications:Partial list* A Description of the...
- James Francis StephensJames Francis StephensJames Francis Stephens was an English entomologist.-Biography:Stephens was born in Shoreham-by-Sea and studied at Christ's Hospital.He was employed in the Admiralty office, Somerset House, from 1807 to 1845...
- Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
- James John WalkerJames John Walker (entomologist)John James Walker was an English entomologist.Walker was a marine engineer trained at the Royal Navy dockyard in Sheerness and voyaged around most of the world, collecting insects when on land....
- Thomas Vernon WollastonThomas Vernon WollastonThomas Vernon Wollaston was a prominent English entomologist and malacologist, becoming especially known for his studies of Coleoptera inhabiting several North Atlantic archipelagoes. He was well-placed socially. His religious beliefs effectively prevented him from supporting Darwin's theories...
Coleopterists from Finland
- Carl Gustaf von Mannerheim
Coleopterists from France
- César Marie Félix AnceyCésar Marie Félix AnceyCésar Marie Félix Ancey was a French conchologist and entomologist.He was for 23 years ‘conservateur’ of collections for Charles Oberthür at Rennes...
- Félix Jean Marie Louis AnceyFélix Jean Marie Louis AnceyFélix Jean Marie Louis Ancey was a French entomologist and malacologist.Félix Ancey who lived in Algeria worked mainly on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. His son César Marie Félix Ancey was also an entomologist and malacologist.-Works:Partial list*Description d'une nouvelle espece du genre Ceratorhina...
- Charles Nicholas AubéCharles Nicholas AubéCharles Nicholas Aubé was a French physician and entomologist born 6 May 1802 in Paris. He died in Crépy on 15 October 1869.Aubé studied at the school of pharmacy in Paris, joining in botanical sorties organised by its members and by the Museum....
- Alfred BalachowskyAlfred BalachowskyAlfred Serge Balachowsky was a French entomologist born in Russia. He specialised in Homoptera : Coccoidea but also worked on Coleoptera. Balachowsky worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
- Eugène BartheEugène BartheEugène Barthe was a French entomologist. While living in Vienne , he created the journal . In 1918, he moved into his father's house in Castanet-Tolosan , where a street was later named in his honour. As well as editing the journal, he also wrote several books which act as supplements to the journal...
- Ernest Marie Louis BedelErnest Marie Louis BedelErnest Marie Louis Bedel was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Louis Bedel studied first in Nantes then in Paris where the future entomologist Maurice Sédillot was a fellow student...
- Louis Beguin-BillecocqLouis Beguin-BillecocqLouis Beguin-Billecocq was a French diplomat and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and especially Curculionidae. He wrote Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles d'Apionidae provenant de la région malgache d'Apionidae provenant de la région malgaque Annales de la Société Entomologique and Apions...
- Nicolas Adolphe BellevoyeNicolas Adolphe BellevoyeNicolas Adolphe Bellevoye was a French artist, designer and entomologist.He wrote Pour L'étude De La Tératologie De Coléoptères Imp...
- Eugène BenderitterEugène BenderitterEugène Benderitter was a French entomologist who specialized in Coleoptera especially Scarabaeidae....
- Henri Bertrand
- Anatole Auguste BoieldieuAnatole Auguste BoieldieuAnatole Auguste Boieldieu was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He was a member of the Société entomologique de France.His collection is conserved by the Association des Etudiants Paris...
- Jules BourgeoisJules BourgeoisJules Bourgeois was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Jules Bourgeois was initially associated with his father and brother in Rouen , as the Paris representative of the family weaving business and he finally representing the spinning mills of H. Schwartz in Sainte Marie-aux-Mines...
- Charles N. F. Brisout
- Jean Baptiste Lucien BuquetJean Baptiste Lucien BuquetJean Baptiste Lucien Buquet was a French entomologist and insect dealer mainly interested in Coleoptera.He described many new genera and species....
- Louis CompanyoLouis CompanyoLouis Companyo was a French physician and naturalist.Louis Companyo was a founder and director of the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Perpignan and wrote Histoire Naturelle du département des Pyrénées-Orientales. Perpignan, 1861–1864, the first book on the natural history of the Pyrenees when over...
- Francis de Laporte de Castelnau
- Jean-Charles ChenuJean-Charles ChenuJean-Charles Chenu was a French physician and naturalist. Chenu is the author of an Encyclopaedia of Natural History.-Bibliography:Natural history...
- Louis Alexandre Auguste ChevrolatLouis Alexandre Auguste ChevrolatLouis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat was a French entomologist, born 29 March 1799 at Paris and died16 December 1884 in the same city.In government service in Paris, this amateur entomologist studied, mainly, Coleoptera and birds...
- Pierre François Marie Auguste DejeanPierre François Marie Auguste DejeanPierre François Marie Auguste Dejean , was a French entomologist. A soldier of fortune during the Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and aide de campe to Napoleon. He amassed vast collections of Coleoptera some even collected on the battlefield at Waterloo...
- Jules Desbrochers des LogesJules Desbrochers des LogesJules Desbrochers des Loges Jules Desbrochers des Loges Jules Desbrochers des Loges (1836 , Béthune, Pas de Calais-10th August 1913 , Tours was a Frenchentomologist.Desbrochers was an insect dealer at first based in Vitry-aux-Loges (1880–1887), then from 1888 in Tours...
- Achille DeyrolleAchille DeyrolleAchille Deyrolle was a French entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.Born in Lille Deyrolle eventually settled in Brussels where he worked with his father in the City Museum. He went on a scientific mission to Brazil...
- Robert DidierRobert DidierRobert Didier Robert Didier Robert Didier (4 February 1885, Porte sur Saône , Haute-Saône- 10 May 1977, Paris was a French surgeon, zoologist and entomologist.Robert Didier was an Associé of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris...
- Jean-Louis Alléon-DulacJean-Louis Alléon-DulacJean-Louis Alléon-Dulac was a French naturalist.Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac was born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, the son of an adviser of the king...
- André Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
- Antoine Casimir Marguerite Eugène FoudrasAntoine Casimir Marguerite Eugène FoudrasAntoine Casimir Marguerite Eugène Foudras was a French entomologist. He was a Member of the Société Linnéenne de Lyon.Although Eugène Foudras had to work hard to earn his living, he spent all his spare time collecting insects in various parts of France , especially Chamonix, Bresse, Dauphiné,...
- Étienne Louis GeoffroyÉtienne Louis GeoffroyÉtienne Louis Geoffroy was a French entomologist and pharmacist. He was born in Paris and died in Soissons. He followed the binomial nomenclature of Carl von Linné and devoted himself mainly to beetles....
- Joseph-Étienne GiraudJoseph-Étienne GiraudJoseph-Étienne Giraud was a French doctor and entomologist specializing in Hymenoptera with an additional interest in Coleoptera.Giraud practised medicine in Vienna and Paris...
- Jean-Étienne GirardJean-Étienne GirardMaurice Jean Auguste Girard was a French entomologist.Girard entered École normale supérieurein 1844. In 1847 he taught physics in Périgueux. After having obtained his agrégation, he left for Dijon where he taught from 1853 to 1873...
- Auguste Jean François GrenierAuguste Jean François GrenierAuguste Jean François Grenier was a French doctor and entomologist. He studied at Rouen, then at Paris where he qualified as a doctor in 1842. He was devoted to entomology only between 1857 and 1859...
- Émile Joseph Isidore GobertÉmile Joseph Isidore GobertÉmile Joseph Isidore Gobert was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera then Diptera.He wrote Catalogue raisonné des insectes Coléoptères des Landes and Catalogue des diptères de France ....
- Alphonse HustacheAlphonse HustacheAlphonse Hustache was a French entomologist.He was one of the best specialist on Curculionidae.-Works:He begins to write many articles in many journals as l'Échange, Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, Miscellanea Entomologica, and many others including north African and South American...
- Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du ValPierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du ValPierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin Du Val was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Born in Pyrénées-Orientales, Jacquelin Du Val went to Paris in order to begin medical studies. There he met Alexandre Laboulbène who introduced him to entomology. The paradox is that Laboulbène became a...
- Charles Georges JavetCharles Georges JavetCharles Georges Javet was a Swiss-born French insect dealer and entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera....
- Jean Théodore LacordaireJean Théodore LacordaireThéodore Lacordaire or Jean Théodore Lacordaire was a Belgian entomologist of French extraction....
- Pierre André LatreillePierre André LatreillePierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis...
- Edouard LefèvreEdouard LefèvreEdouard Lefèvre was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He was a civil servant.-References:...
- Charles Eugène LeprieurCharles Eugène LeprieurCharles Eugène Leprieur was a French army doctor and entomologist. He was especially interested in Coleoptera....
- Sylvain Auguste de MarseulSylvain Auguste de MarseulSylvain Auguste de Marseul . was a French Abbot and entomologist. He taught in the Petit séminaire de Paris from 1833 to 1836. In 1842, founded a college at Laval , then from 1850 to 1853, he taught in Paris. In 1854, he left his college for America where he remained eight months and discovered...
- Édouard MénétriesÉdouard MénétriesÉdouard Ménétries was a French entomologist, zoologist, and herpetologist.Ménétries was born in Paris, and became a student of Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille. On their recommendation he was chosen as the zoologist on a Russian expedition to Brazil in 1822, led by Baron von Langsdorff...
(also Russia) - Étienne MulsantÉtienne MulsantMartial Étienne Mulsant was a French entomologist and ornithologist.Initially employed in commerce, Mulsant wrote writes Lettres à Julie sur l'entomologie, suivies d'une description méthodique de la plus grande partie des insectes de France, ornées de planches… Martial Étienne Mulsant (March 2,...
- René OberthürRené OberthürRené Oberthür was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.With his brother Charles Oberthür he worked in "Imprimerie Oberthür" the very successful printing business founded by his father François-Charles Oberthür....
- Guillaume-Antoine OlivierGuillaume-Antoine OlivierGuillaume-Antoine Olivier was a French entomologist.He was the author of Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes and Le Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse . He was a close friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a patron of Pierre André Latreille.-References:...
- Louis PandelléLouis PandelléLouis Pandellé was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Diptera.-Works:Partial...
- Auguste Simon ParisAuguste Simon ParisAuguste Simon Paris was a French notary and entomologist.A former notary who retired to live in Épernay, he was interested in butterflies and Coleoptera and assembled a rich personal collection, sold on his death...
- Maurice PicMaurice PicMaurice Pic was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He contributed to Mary-Louis Fauconnet's Catalogue raisonné des coléoptères de Saône-et-Loire and wrote many short papers, many in L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne describing world beetles...
- Louis Jérôme ReicheLouis Jérôme ReicheLouis Jérôme Reiche , was a French merchant, manufacturer and entomologist.Reiche travelled widely in Europe making a large insect collection principally of beetles...
- Maurice Auguste RégimbartMaurice Auguste RégimbartMaurice Auguste Régimbart was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera , particularly Dytiscidae , Gyrinidae and Hydrophilidae.Regimbart worked on expedition material collected mainly from French ,...
- Claudius ReyClaudius ReyClaudius Rey was a French entomologist .Rey’s family owned a prosperous printing works which went bankrupt in 1847. Fortunately, one of his uncles, the owner of a vineyard producing Morgon, offered him employment...
- Auguste SalléAuguste SalléAuguste Sallé was a French traveller and entomologistwho specialised in Coleoptera.Following expeditions to the Southern States of the USA , West India, Central America and Venezuela on behalf of Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat) and accompanied by his mother and a M...
- Antoine Joseph Jean SolierAntoine Joseph Jean SolierAntoine Joseph Jean Solier was a French naturalist, entomologist and plant collector....
- James Thomson (entomologist)James Thomson (entomologist)James Thomson was an American entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.James Thomson was of independent means and for most of life lived in France...
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Coleopterists from Germany
- Michael Bach
- Max BernhauerMax BernhauerMax Bernhauer was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Staphylinidae. He described over 5,000 species. He studied and received a law degree from the University of Vienna in 1899. He worked as a notary to supplement his amateur studies...
- Hans BischoffHans BischoffHans Bischoff was a German entomologist from Berlin.He was Kustos or curator of Hymenoptera at Museum für Naturkunde from 1921 until 1955.-Selected works:...
- Oskar BoettgerOskar BoettgerOskar Boettger was a German zoologist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main. He was an uncle of the noted malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger ....
- Johann von BöberJohann von BöberJohann von Böber or Boeber or Johann Jacob Beberi was a German teacher, entomologist and botanist. He was first a professor at St. Peter's College Jelgava then in 1796. became an advisor to the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.In 1809 he wrote Description de quelques nouvelles espèces de...
- Johann Friedrich von BrandtJohann Friedrich von BrandtJohann Friedrich von Brandt was a German naturalist.Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin. In 1831 he was appointed director of the Zoological Department at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, where he published in Russian...
- Christian Casimir BrittingerChristian Casimir BrittingerChristian Casimir Brittinger was a German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist.- Botany :...
- Heinrich Christian BurckhardtHeinrich Christian BurckhardtHeinrich Christian Burckhardt was a German forester and entomologist.In 1853 Burckhardt became the first civil director of forest administration in the Kingdom of Hanover Heinrich Christian Burckhardt (26 February 1811 , Adelebsen - 14 December 1879 , Hannover) was a German forester and...
- Carl Gustav CalwerCarl Gustav CalwerCarl Gustav Calwer was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera....
- Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann ClasenFriedrich Wilhelm Erdmann ClasenFriedrich Wilhelm Erdmann Clasen was a German entomologist who specialized in Coleoptera.Clasen was a teacher at the state school in Rostok.He was the author of Beitrage zur Kaeferfauna Mecklenburgs Abtlg. Osterprogr...
- George DieckGeorge DieckGeorg Dieck was a German entomologist and botanist.He wrote many scientific papers describing new taxa, and introduced several plants to western cultivation, notably Ulmus pumila L. var. arborea Litv...
- Rudolph DittrichRudolph DittrichRudolph Dittrich was a German entomologist specialising in Coleopteraand Hymenoptera.His Hymenoptera collection is in the Museum of Natural History Wroclaw University-Works:Partial List...
- Carl August DohrnCarl August DohrnCarl August Dohrn was a German entomologist.-Biography:Born at Stettin Carl August was the son of Heinrich Dohrn, who was a wine and spice merchant, and had made the family fortune by trading in sugar...
- Wilhelm Ferdinand ErichsonWilhelm Ferdinand ErichsonWilhelm Ferdinand Erichson was a German entomologist.He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv für Naturgeschichte.-Works:*Genera Dytiscorum. Berlin...
- Franz FaldermannFranz FaldermannFranz Faldermann was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Falderman described many new taxa of Coleoptera.His major works are:...
also Russia - Arnold FörsterArnold FörsterArnold Förster was a German entomologist, who worked mainly on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.-Life:Arnold Förster, who was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884. He was Oberlehrer , or upper teacher, in Aachen for his entire adult life. He worked ceaselessly on...
- Ernst Friedrich GermarErnst Friedrich GermarErnst Friedrich Germar was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. He monographed the heteropteran family Scutelleridae.Amongst Germar’s publications...
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm HerbstJohann Friedrich Wilhelm HerbstJohann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg....
- Carl Heinrich Georg(es) von HeydenCarl von HeydenCarl Heinrich Georg von Heyden was a German Senator and entomologist. He collected insects in all Orders but was especially interested in Coleoptera, Microlepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera and fossil insects.His collections are divided between the German Entomological Institute and the Senckenberg...
- Theodor HildebrandtTheodor HildebrandtTheodor Hildebrandt , German painter, was born at Stettin .He was a disciple of the painter Schadow, and, on Schadow's appointment to the presidency of a new academy in the Rhenish provinces in 1828, followed that master to Düsseldorf...
- Walther Hermann Richard HornWalther Hermann Richard HornWalther Hermann Richard Horn was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was born in Berlin, where he also died.He was first a physician then Director of the German Entomological Institute.-Selected works:...
- Johann Karl Wilhelm IlligerJohann Karl Wilhelm IlligerJohann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German entomologist and zoologist.Illiger was the son of a merchant in Brunswick. He studied under the entomologist Johann Hellwig, and later worked on the zoological collections of Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg...
- Carl Gustav JablonskyCarl Gustav JablonskyCarl Gustav Jablonsky was a Berlin naturalist, entomologist and illustrator. He was also the private secretary to the Queen of Prussia....
- Martin JacobyMartin JacobyMartin Jacoby , London was a German musician and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Chrysomelidae .-Selected works:...
- Gustav JägerGustav JägerGustav Jäger was a German naturalist and hygienist.He was born at the historic Pfarrhaus of the village of Bürg, Neuenstadt am Kocher, in Württemberg. After studying medicine at Tübingen he became a teacher of zoology at Vienna...
- Ernest August Hellmuth von KiesenwetterErnest August Hellmuth von KiesenwetterErnst August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter Ernst August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter Ernst August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter (5 November 1820 Dresden-18 March 1880 in Dresden was a German entomologist who specialised in beetles, or Coleoptera....
- Theodor Franz Wilhelm KirschTheodor Franz Wilhelm KirschTheodor Franz Wilhelm Kirsch Theodor Franz Wilhelm Kirsch Theodor Franz Wilhelm Kirsch (29 September 1818 , Düben, Torgau - 8 July 1889, Dresden was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Kirsch was Curator of Entomology at the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden in Dresden....
- Johann Christoph Friedrich KlugJohann Christoph Friedrich KlugJohann Christoph Friedrich Klug was a German entomologist born 5 May 1775 in Berlin and died 3 February 1856 in the same city.He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich's Symbolæ Physicæ...
- Hermann Julius KolbeHermann Julius KolbeHermann Julius Kolbe was a German entomologist from Halle, Westphalia. He was curator at the Berlin Zoological Museum from 1890 until 1921 specialising in Coleoptera, Psocoptera and the “Neuroptera”...
- Johann Gottlieb KugelannJohann Gottlieb KugelannJohann Gottlieb Kugelann was a German entomologist. A pharmacist by profession, Kugelann worked on Coleoptera....
- Gustav KunzeGustav KunzeGustav Kunze Gustav Kunze Gustav Kunze (4 October 1793, Leipzig -30 April 1851, Leipzigwas a German professor of zoology, an entomologist and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids....
- Franz Anton MengeFranz Anton MengeFranz Anton Menge was a German entomologist.Menge was a student of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History at the University of Bonn He became Professor at the Petrischule in Danzig....
- Wilhelm MinkWilhelm MinkWilhelm Mink was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hymenoptera . He was a teacher in Krefeld. His collection is in the Städt. Museum Annaberg-Buchholz in Saxony....
- Wilhelm MöllenkampWilhelm MöllenkampWilhelm Möllenkamp was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Lucanidae.Möllenkamp was an insect dealer in Dortmund...
- Julius MoserJulius MoserJulius Moser 1863–1929 was a German entomologist who specialised in beetles.He worked on world fauna maintaining a very large personal collection much of which was purchased from insect dealers. Moser who lived in Berlin left his collection to the...
- John NietnerJohn NietnerJohn Nietner was a German naturalist chiefly interested in botany and entomology. He was a plantation owner in Ceylon and described many new insect species from the island.-Works:...
- Georg Hermann Alexander OchsGeorg Hermann Alexander OchsGeorg Hermann Alexander Ochs was a German entomologist , specialising in Coleoptera and in particular the Gyrinidae. In this group he worked on the world fauna.-Works:Partial list...
- Georg Wolfgang Franz PanzerGeorg Wolfgang Franz PanzerGeorg Wolfgang Franz Panzer was a German botanist and entomologist.He was born at Etzelwang in the Palatinate and died at Hersbruck, near Nuremberg.A physician, he practised at Hersbruck...
- Maximilian PertyMaximilian PertyJosef Anton Maximilian Perty was a German naturalist and entomologist. He was a professor of natural history at the University of Bern.-Works:...
- Edmund ReitterEdmund ReitterEdmund Reitter was a Austrian entomologist , writer and a collector.Edmund Reitter was above all well-known as an expert on the beetles of the Palaearctic....
- Karl RostKarl RostKarl Rost was a German entomologist and insect dealer.From 1886 Rost was an insect dealer and professional insect collector in Berlin. He collected insects later offered for sale in Spain and Greece . In 1899 he went on an expedition to Siberia and in 1900 -1901 collected in the Caucasus...
- Hermann Rudolph SchaumHermann Rudolph SchaumHermann Rudolph Schaum was a professor in Berlin and an entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera....
- Sigmund SchenklingSigmund SchenklingSigmund Schenkling was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera....
- Friedrich Julius SchilskyFriedrich Julius SchilskyFriedrich Julius Schilsky was a German entomologist.He was Secretary of the Entomological Society of Berlin. His principal work was a catalogue of German beetles Systematisches Verzeichnis der Käfer Deutschlands, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer geographischen Verbreitung. Zugleich ein...
- Georg Karl Maria SeidlitzGeorg Karl Maria SeidlitzGeorg Karl Maria Seidlitz was a German doctor and entomologist. He was a zoology teacher in Dorpat , then in Königsberg, , where he became a fishery expert. He later specialised in Coleoptera, describing many new species and he wrote Fauna Baltica...
- Jacob SturmJacob SturmJacob Sturm was the most famous engraver of entomological and botanical scientific publications in Germany at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. He lived in Nuremberg....
- Christian Wilhelm Ludwig Eduard SuffrianChristian Wilhelm Ludwig Eduard SuffrianChristian Wilhelm Ludwig Eduard Suffrian was a German entomologist who specialized in Coleoptera especially Chrysomelidae.He was a schoolteacher in Münster...
Coleopterists from Hungary
- Elemér BokorElemér BokorElemér Bokor was a Hungarian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Bokor worked on cave fauna.His collection of Palaearctic beetles is in the Hungarian Natural History Museum.-Works:...
- George BornemisszaGeorge BornemisszaGeorge Francis Bornemissza is a Hungarian-born entomologist and ecologist. He studied science at the University of Budapest before obtaining his PhD in zoology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria in 1950. At the end of that year he emigrated to Australia...
- Karel BrančikKarel BrancikKarel Brančik was a Hungarian doctor and naturalist....
- Ernő Csíki
- Friedrich F. TippmannFriedrich F. TippmannFriedrich F. Tippmann Friedrich F. Tippmann Friedrich F. Tippmann (5 October, 1894, Futak-5 August 1974, Vienna was a Hungarian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera , especially the Cerambycidae.-Life and work:...
Coleopterists from Ireland
- James Nathaniel HalbertJames Nathaniel HalbertJames Nathaniel Halbert was an Irish entomologist. He was born 30 August 1871 and died 7 May 1948 in Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland.In 1892, Halbert began work at the Science and Art Museum, in Dublin . He was appointed Technical Assistant in 1904 and then Assistant Naturalist, in place of George H...
- Alexander Henry HalidayAlexander Henry HalidayAlexander Henry Haliday, also known as Enrico Alessandro Haliday and Alexis Heinrich Haliday sometimes Halliday , was an Irish entomologist. He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera and Thysanoptera, but Haliday worked on all insect orders and on many aspects of entomology.Haliday...
- William Frederick JohnsonWilliam Frederick JohnsonWilliam Frederick Johnson was an Irish naturalist primarily interested in Entomology.-Biography:He was born in Travancore, India, where he spent his youth. A genial and kindly clergyman,he published over 100 papers each on Lepidoptera, sixty or so on Hymenoptera and smaller numbers on each of ten...
- Eugene O'MahoneyEugene O'MahoneyEugene O'Mahoney was an Irish museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.O'Mahoney worked in the National Museum, Dublin...
- James TardyJames TardyJames Tardy was an Irish naturalist.Tardy was a friend of Thomas Coulter and Nicholas Aylward Vigors. His collection of 10,000 Irish insects was purchased by Trinity College in 1843. He published nothing himself, but his records appear in other works notably by Alexander Henry Haliday and Authur...
Coleopterists from Italy
- Raniero Alliata di PietratagliataRaniero Alliata di PietratagliataRaniero Alliata di Pietratagliata or more correctly " of the Duchi di Pietratagliata" was an Italian, intellectual, theosophist and entomologist. His insect collection from the Madonie is conserved in the civic museum in Terrasini It includes purchased exotic insects. He lived in Villa Alliata di...
- Pietro BargagliPietro BargagliPietro Bargagli was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. His collection is in La Specola and the Istituto Sperimentale per la Zooogia Agraria.He was a member of La Società Entomologica Italiana-Works:Partial list.*Escursioni entomologiche sulla montagna di Cetona...
- Carlo BassiCarlo BassiCarlo Bassi was an Italian entomologist.He was honorary curator of entomology in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milan from 1841 to his death in 1856.He was a specialist in Coleoptera....
- Flaminio Baudi di SelveFlaminio Baudi di SelveFlaminio Baudi di Selve Flaminio Baudi di Selve Flaminio Baudi di Selve (7 July 1821 , Savigliano - 26 June 1901 , Genoa was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera but also Heteroptera....
- Giuseppe BertoliniGiuseppe BertoliniGiuseppe Bertoloni was an Italian botanist and entomologist.He was Professor of botany in the University of Bologna which conserves his collections in the University Museum...
- Franco Andrea BonelliFranco Andrea BonelliFranco Andrea Bonelli was an Italian ornithologist, entomologist and collector.-Life:Very little is known about the early life of Bonelli: he was born in Cuneo and was interested from an early age in the fauna which surrounded him, making collecting trips, preparing specimens and noting his...
- Carlo EmeryCarlo EmeryCarlo Emery was an Italian entomologist.Born in Naples, Carlo Emery was professor of Zoology at the University of Bologna. He later worked in Geneva...
- Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di BremeFerdinando Arborio Gattinara di BremeFerdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme , Duc de Sartirana Lomellina, marquis de Breme was an Italian naturalist and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Diptera.He was a “sénateur” of the Société entomologique de France and president of that society in...
- Raffaello GestroRaffaello GestroRaffaello Gestro was an Italian entomologist who specialised in ColeopteraGestro was the Director of the Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria Genoa where his collection is conserved...
- Bernardino HalbherrBernardino HalbherrBernardino Halbherr was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Heteroptera....
- Paolo LuigioniPaolo LuigioniPaolo Luigioni was an Italian entomologist.Luigioni was a Rome University professor and Curator of the Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma where the main his collection is kept...
- Francisco Minà PalumboFrancisco Minà PalumboFrancisco Minà Palumbo was an Italian naturalist who made the first significant studies of the natural history of Sicily....
- Carlo PasseriniCarlo PasseriniCarlo Passerini was an Italianentomologist. He was Curator at the R. Natural History Museum in Florence.His collection of Coleoptera is in the Paolo Savi Museum in Pisa ....
- Leonello PiccoLeonello PiccoLeonello Picco was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hemiptera.His main work was Contributo allo studio della fauna entomologica Italiano. Elenco sistematico degli Emitteri finora raccolti nella Provincia di Roma. Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital. 40:10-101 His collection is in Museo...
- Odorado PirazzoliOdorado PirazzoliOdorado Pirazzoli Was an Italian army Major, engineer and entomologist. He was born in and, excepting his army career, lived in Imola. Pirazzoli was a coleopterist. His collection is in Museo civico 'G. Scarabelli', Imola.-References:...
- Giovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist.-Biography:...
Coleopterists from Russia
- Ernst von BallionErnst von BallionErnst von Ballion was a Russian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Tenebrionidae.-Works:Partial list...
- Maximilien ChaudoirMaximilien ChaudoirMaximilen Chaudoir, or Maximilien, baron de Chaudoir, was a Russian entomologist....
- Alexander Ivanovitsch JakovlevAlexander Ivanovitsch JakovlevAlexander Ivanovitsch Jakovlev , was a Russian entomologist. He is not to be confused with Wassily Ewgrafowitsch Jakowlew also an entomologist who lived in St. Petersburg....
(= Jakowlew, Jakowleff) - Wassily Ewgrafowitsch JakowlewWassily Ewgrafowitsch JakowlewWassily Ewgrafowitsch Jakowlew was a Russian entomologist....
(= Jakowlev, Jakowleff= B.E ) - Nikita Rafailowitsch KukujevNikita KokuyevNikita Rafailovich Kokuyev was a Russian entomologist.He specialized in Hymenoptera and Coleoptera and described new taxa in both groups. His collection is in the...
- Oleg Leonidovich KryzhanovskyOleg Leonidovich KryzhanovskyOleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky was a Russian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Carabidae and Histeridae....
- Édouard MénétriesÉdouard MénétriesÉdouard Ménétries was a French entomologist, zoologist, and herpetologist.Ménétries was born in Paris, and became a student of Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille. On their recommendation he was chosen as the zoologist on a Russian expedition to Brazil in 1822, led by Baron von Langsdorff...
(also France) - Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky
- Tikhon Sergeyevich TschitscherineTikhon Sergeyevich TschitscherineTikhon Sergeyevich Tschitscherine was a Russian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Carabidae-References:*Daniel, K. 1906 [Tschitscherin, T. S.] Münch. Koleopt. Zeitschr. 2 1904-1906 389-390....
Coleopterists from Spain
- José María Hugo de la Fuente MoralesJosé María Hugo de la Fuente MoralesJosé María Hugo de la Fuente Morales was a Spanish entomologist. Born in Pozuelo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Spain, son of the Madrilenian doctor Ildefonso de la Fuente Villanueva and Pozuelo de Calatrava native Anastasia Ramona Morales Hornero, he was the second of nine children, of whom only four...
- Ignacio BolívarIgnacio BolívarIgnacio Bolívar y Urrutia was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist, and one of the founding fathers of Spanish entomology...
- Fermín Martín PieraFermín Martín PieraFermín Martín-Piera was a specialist in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of Scarabaeoidea with special reference to dung beetles.He was also keenly interested in the historical biogeography of these groups...
- Cándido Bolívar PieltainCándido Bolívar PieltainCándido Bolívar Pieltain . He studied in Ciudad Real. When he was 14, his article “Observaciones sobre algunas cuevas del Norte de España y descripción de una nueva especie de ‘Speocharis’” was published in the Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural.When he was 17 years old, he...
Coleopterists from Sweden
- Per Olof Christopher AurivilliusPer Olof Christopher AurivilliusPer Olof Christopher Aurivillius was a Swedish entomologist.Aurivillius was born at Forsa. He was the Director of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and he specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was, for a long time, the Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science...
- Carl Henrik BohemanCarl Henrik BohemanCarl Henrik Boheman was a Swedish entomologist.Boheman studied at Lund University and trained as an officer, participating in the invasion of Norway in 1814...
- Charles De GeerCharles De GeerBaron Charles de Geer was a Swedish industrialist and entomologist.- Life :...
- Leonard GyllenhaalLeonard GyllenhaalLeonard Gyllenhaal was a Swedish military officer and entomologist.Born on the Ribbingsberg manor in Västergötland in west Sweden, Leonard Gyllenhaal was son of an army officer and belonged to a family of the lower nobility...
- Carl Linnaeus
- Gustaf von PaykullGustaf von PaykullGustav von Paykull was a Swedish friherre and hovmarskalk , ornithologist and entomologist....
- Carl Johan SchönherrCarl Johan SchönherrCarl Johan Schönherr was a Swedish entomologist who revised the taxonomy of beetles, including weevils.Born in Stockholm, Schönherr was son of a German immigrant who had established himself as a silk manufacturer. At the age of nineteen, he took over the business together with his mother and...
- Carl Peter ThunbergCarl Peter ThunbergCarl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....
- Carl Gustaf ThomsonCarl Gustaf ThomsonCarl Gustaf Thomson was a Swedish entomologist.Thomson became a student in the University of Lund in 1843 , graduated in 1850 and became associate professor of zoology there in 1857...
Coleopterists from Switzerland
- Louis AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
(also USA) - Andreas Bischoff-EhingerAndreas Bischoff-EhingerAndreas Bischoff-Ehinger was a Swiss entomologistBischoff-Ehinger specialized in Coleoptera. He was an insect dealer.The Bischoff-Ehinger collection is in the Natural History Museum of Basel-References:...
- Oswald HeerOswald HeerOswald Heer , Swiss geologist and naturalist, was born at Niederuzwil in Canton of St. Gallen and died in Lausanne.-Biography:...
- Johann Rudolph SchellenbergJohann Rudolph SchellenbergJohann Rudolph Schellenberg was a Swiss Artist , writer , botanist and entomologist.He illustrated many botanical and entomological works including Johann Heinrich Sulzer’s Die Kennzeichen der Insekten, nach Anleitung des Königl. Schwed. Ritters und Leibarzts Karl Linnaeus...
- Henri TournierHenri TournierHenri Tournier was a Swiss entomologist. He was a dealer in Peney-le-Jorat. Tournier described many new species of Hymenoptera and Coleoptera.-Works:Very partial listColeoptera...
Coleopterists from the United States of America
- Louis AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
(also Switzerland) - Ross H. Arnett, Jr.Ross H. Arnett, Jr.Ross Harold Arnett, Jr. was an American entomologist noted for his studies of beetles, and as founder of the Coleopterist's Bulletin....
- Willis BlatchleyWillis BlatchleyWillis Stanley Blatchley was an American entomologist, malacologist and geologist...
- George Robert CrotchGeorge Robert CrotchGeorge Robert Crotch was a British entomologist.Born in Cambridge, England 1842 Crotch became interested in insects, especially Coleoptera, while an undergraduate at Cambridge University. He worked at the University Library, Cambridge...
- William Trowbridge Merrifield ForbesWilliam Trowbridge Merrifield ForbesWilliam Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.-Works:Partial ListColeoptera...
- George Henry HornGeorge Henry HornGeorge Henry Horn was a U.S. entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles.Born in Philadelphia, Horn attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1861...
- Henry Guernsey HubbardHenry Guernsey HubbardHenry Guernsey Hubbard was an American horticulturist, botanist, and entomologist.Henry Hubbard, first son of noted Michigan geologist, explorer and surveyor, Bela Hubbard, was born in Detroit, Michigan....
- John Lawrence LeConteJohn Lawrence LeConteJohn Lawrence LeConte was the most important American entomologist of the 19th century, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, including some 5,000 species of beetles...
- Eugene Amandus SchwarzEugene Amandus SchwarzEugene Amandus Schwarz was an American entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He studied entomology in Europe then left for the U.S.A. in 1872 where he joined the courses of Hermann August Hagen at the University of Harvard...
- Herbert Huntingdon SmithHerbert Huntingdon SmithHerbert Huntingdon Smith was an American naturalist who worked on the flora and fauna of Brazil. He wrote Brazil, the Amazons and the coast and Do Rio de Janeiro a Cuyabá: Notas de um naturalista .He first went to Brazil in 1870 on the Morgan expedition led by Charles Frederick Hartt...
- Michael C. ThomasMichael C. ThomasMichael C. Thomas is an American entomologist who is co-author of the book series American Beetles.Born in Miami, Florida, Thomas graduated from the University of South Florida in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in fine arts, followed by a Master of Science degree in Entomology from the...
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- Herbert Edward Cox
- Eleanor GlanvilleEleanor GlanvilleLady Eleanor Glanville was a 17th century English entomologist from Tickenham in Somerset. She was particularly interested in butterflies. Lady Glanville collected large numbers of butterfly specimens, many of which survive as some of the earliest specimens kept in the Natural History Museum...
- Frederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist....
- Thomas H.M. Gorden
- Guido NonveillerGuido NonveillerGuido Nonveiller was a Croatian entomologist, FAO expert and professor at the University of Belgrade. He fought in the International Brigades and French Forces of the Interior during WW2. In 1989 he was inducted as a Commander of the l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques...
External links
- The Coleopterist – includes a biographical dictionary of British coleopterists
- Scarab Workers World Directory
- German Coleopterists
- ZinRu Gouillard J. 2004. Histoire des entomologistes français (1750–1950). Édition entièrement revue et augmentée. Paris, Société Nouvelle des Éditions Boubée. 288 pp.
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