Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie (28 January 1844, Chartres – 25 September 1888, Évreux)[1] was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. After his studies in Chartres then Paris, Chavignerie worked at the Palais de Justice in Paris from 1844 to 1859. He was devoted to Lepidoptera and wrote many scientific papers on them, principally faunistic works. The most important were the faunas of the Auvergne (1850), the Alps (de 1854 à 1858), the Pyrénées-Orientales (1858), Sicily (1860) and Corsica (1861). Charles Oberthür (1845-1924) acquired his collection after his death.
Sources[]
- Jean Lhoste (1987). Les Entomologistes français. 1750-1950. INRA Éditions : 351 p.
- Translation from French Wikipedia
References[]
- ^ Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Bellier de La Chavignerie (Jean-Baptiste, Eugène) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. (ISBN 9782908866506)
Categories:
- French entomologists
- French lepidopterists
- Presidents of the Société entomologique de France
- 1844 births
- 1888 deaths
- People from Chartres
- 19th-century French zoologists