Jules Culot

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Jules Culot (born November 2, 1861 in Baccarat , † September 17, 1933 in Geneva ) was a French glass artist , illustrator and lepidopterist .

Jules Culot (1914)

Life

Culot's parents were employed in the crystal glass factory in Baccarat and the young Culot also began to learn the glassmaking trade as an apprentice and specialized in glass engraving. He was also very interested in entomology , particularly butterflies . Due to differences with his superiors, he ended his work in the crystal glass factory and used the knowledge he had acquired to engrave, print and reproduce panels and drawings. When the war broke out in 1870 , the home of the Culot family was destroyed, he settled briefly in Paris , but returned to Baccarat to support his mother, worked briefly in the crystal glass factory and took private drawing lessons. In 1884 he moved to Geneva , where he lived off the sale of crystal glass with custom engravings. He became friends with Charles Oberthür and both began many joint entomological ventures. Between 1909 and 1920, Culot engraved a total of 150 plates with images of owl butterflies (Noctuidae) and spanners (Geometridae), all of which were colored by hand, sometimes with the assistance of his daughters, and for their artistic value he received several prizes. Descriptions of the individual species were added and the four-volume, very impressive complete work was published under the title Noctuelles et Géomètres d'Europe - Iconographie Complète de Toutes les Espèces Européennes . He also described new species and subspecies . Half of his butterfly collection (Lepidoptera) went to his older daughter in Geneva and half to his younger daughter in Nice , while the beetle collection (Coleoptera) went to the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève .

Works

  • Noctuelles et Géomètres d'Europe - Iconographie Complète de Toutes les Espèces Européenn Première Partie Noctuelles , Imprimerie Oberthür, Rennes, 1909
  • Noctuelles et Géomètres d'Europe Première Partie Noctuelles Volume II , Imprimerie Oberthür, Rennes, 1914–1917
  • Noctuelles et Géomètres d'Europe Deuxième Partie Geómètres Volume III , Imprimerie Oberthür, 1917–1919
  • Noctuelles et Géomètres d'Europe Deuxième Partie Geómètres Volume IV , Imprimerie Oberthür, 1919–1920

From the 1980s onwards, the books were reprinted.

Taxa named after Culot (selection)

Several butterfly species and subspecies have been named in honor of Culot, for example Polymixis culoti ( Schawerda , 1921).

Web links

Commons : Jules Culot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Arnold Pictet: Jules Culot (1861–1933) , Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologische Gesellschaft, Geneva, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1934, pp. 129–139
  2. ^ Biographies of the Entomologists of the World
personal data
SURNAME Culot, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entomologist, glass artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Baccarat
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1933
Place of death Geneva