Jean Théodore Lacordaire

Jean Théodore Lacordaire

Jean Théodore Lacordaire (born February 1, 1801 in Châtillon-sur-Seine , † July 19, 1870 in Liège ) was a Belgian entomologist of French descent who was best known for his descriptions of the insects of South America . He was a brother of the Dominican Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire .

Live and act

Lacordaire studied law in Le Havre and traveled to Buenos Aires , Argentina in 1824 to establish himself as a businessman. He traveled to the pampas and then it took him to Uruguay and later to Brazil in the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais . Another trip then led from Santiago , Chile , to Montevideo , Uruguay. He used the trips for zoological observations. In 1830 he returned to France and, at the invitation of Georges Cuvier, visited Paris, where he met Pierre André Latreille , Jean Victor Audouin and André Marie Constant Duméril and was involved in founding the Entomological Society of France. In the same year, however, he traveled to Cayenne for two more years , where he again collected extensive zoological collections. After his return to France, Lacordaire began to describe the insects he had collected and to write travel reports. In 1835 he became professor of zoology at the University of Liège , where he stayed until his death in 1870. There he devoted himself in particular to increasing the university's zoological collections. From 1837 he was also a professor of comparative anatomy.

His monumental work Histoire naturelle des insectes lists around 6000 species of beetles.

Memberships

In 1841 de Marseul was introduced by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville as member number 225 of the Société cuviérienne . In 1868 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Fonts

• Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères , Paris, Roret, 1854 to 1876 in 12 parts plus atlas (the first 9 parts by Lacordaire, continued from 1870 by Félicien Chapuis )
• Introduction à l'Entomologie , 2 volumes and atlas, Paris, Roret, 1834 to 1838
• Faune entomologique des environs de Paris , 1835

literature

• Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 4 , 1841, p. 176 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 176.