Étienne Boyer de Fonscolombe

Étienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe (born July 22, 1772 in Aix-en-Provence , † February 13, 1853 ibid) was a French entomologist .

His father Emmanuel Honoré Hippolyte de Boyer (1744-1810) published in the treatises of the Academy of Aix (Mémoires de l'académie d'Aix) on agriculture. Ètienne Boyer de Fonscolombe studied at the Collège de Juilly in Juilly . In 1789 he took part in the constituent assembly in Paris, as a companion of Mirabeau . Father and son were imprisoned during the French Revolution (Ètienne 1793/94), but survived and then retired to their country estate and Montvert Castle . After his father's death in 1810, he lived with his wife and mother in Aix-en-Provence. In 1833 he handed over the management of his estate to his son-in-law Adolphe de Saporta and in 1848 he sold the family castle in Montvert. Then he devoted himself entirely to entomology.

Boyer de Fonscolombe's town house in Aix

As an entomologist, he specialized in beetles , hymenoptera and insect pests . His collection is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

One of his descendants was the composer Emmanuel de Fonscolombe (1810-1875) and about this Antoine de Saint-Exupéry .

Fonts

• Des insectes nuisibles à l'agriculture principalement dans les départements du midi de la France. In: Mémoires de l'Académie de Sciences d'Aix. Volume 5, 1840, pp. 5-225.

literature

• R. Constantin: Memorial des Coléopteristes Français. In: Bull. Liaison Assoc. Col. reg. Parisienne. Paris (Suppl. 14), 1992, pp. 1-92.
• MWR de V. Graham: Hymenoptera collections of Boyer de Fonscolombe, with an account of his work and a description of the natural features of his estate. In: Journal of Natural History. Volume 26, 1992, pp. 1089-1111.
• J. Lhoste: Les entomologistes français. 1750-1950. INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Paris 1987.