Hugues-Fleury Donzel

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Hugues-Fleury Donzel (born February 14, 1791 in Rive-de-Gier , † November 18, 1850 in Lyon ) was a French entomologist .

Life

Donzel was full-time in the silk trade in Lyon.

In 1833 he became a member of the Société entomologique de France and in 1850 a member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.

Donzel mainly collected insects (butterflies) in the Mont Pilat area , in the Maritime Alps and the Pyrenees. His collection is in the Natural History Museum of Lyon.

Other important entomologists in Lyon in the 19th century were the professor and librarian Étienne Mulsant (1797-1880), who mainly collected beetles and with Claudius Rey published a natural history of the beetles of France in 42 volumes (1865 to 1879), the winemaker Claudius Rey (1817–1895), and the lawyers Eugène Foudras (1783–1859) and Benoit-Philibert Perroud (1796–1878).

Fonts

  • Description de Lépidoptères nouveaux, Annales Soc. Ent. Franc., 1846-1847

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Amigo, "Donzel (Hugues-Fleury)", 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 )
  • Étienne Mulsant: Notice sur Hugues-Fleury Donzel, Lue à la Société linnéenne de Lyon, le 14 mars 1853, Annales Soc. Linn. Lyon, Volume 1, 1853, Lyon: Dumoulin 1854, pp. 363-380, online
  • J. Clary, R. Allemand, P. Richoux: L'ecole entomologique lyonnaise du XIXe siecle, Bulletin Mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, Volume 57, 1988, pp. 287-293

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Jean-Jacques Amigo, "Donzel (Hugues-Fleury)", 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 )
  2. ^ Entomological collections, Lyon Natural History Museum
personal data
SURNAME Donzel, Hugues-Fleury
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Rive-de-greed
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1850
Place of death Lyon