Justin Pierre Marie Macquart

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Justin Pierre Marie Macquart.

Justin Pierre Marie Macquart (* 1778 in Hazebrouck ; † November 25, 1855 in Lestrem ) was a French entomologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Macquart ".

Life

Justin Pierre Marie Macquart was born in Hazebrouck, 45 kilometers west of Lille . During the French Revolution in 1796 he went to the Rhine Army under the command of General Armand Samuel de Marescot (1758-1832), where he was secretary and draftsman. With the Rhine Army he reached Switzerland . Two years later, he left the army and went back to Lille. Here he devoted himself to the study of insects and was one of the founders of the Société d'Amateurs des Sciences et Arts of Lille. On the 27th Messidor of the year 11 according to the French Revolutionary Calendar (1802) Macquart was elected a member of the Société de Sciences de l'Agriculture et des Arts of Lille.

At a council of Pierre André Latreille way he specialized in the order of Diptera (Diptera). In 1826 the first volume of his work Insectes Diptères du Nord de la France appeared, followed by numerous other publications on the two-winged species. In 1839 Macquart visited Johann Wilhelm Meigen in Stolberg and acquired his notes and drawings for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris .

At the suggestion of ornithologist Charles Bonaparte , he was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences . In 1851 he received the award of a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur .

Fonts (selection)

An illustration from Macquart's Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres.
  • Insectes Diptères du Nord de la France . Lille 1826–1833, 5 volumes
    • Tipulaires . Lille 1826; digitized version
    • Asiliques, bombyliers, xylotomes, leptides, vésiculeux, stratiomydes, xylophagites, tabania . Lille 1826; digitized version
    • Platypézines, dolichopodes, empides, hybotides . Lille 1827; digitized version
    • Syrphies . Lille 1829; digitized version
    • Athéricères: créophiles, strides, myopaires, conopsaires, scénopiniens, céphalopsides . Lille 1833
  • Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Diptères . Roret, Paris 1834–1835, 2 volumes;
  • Diptères Exotiques Nouveaux ou peu Connus . Roret, Paris 1838–1846, 2 volumes and 5 supplements
  • Les Arbres et Arbrisseaux d'Europe et leurs insectes . Lille 1852; digitized version

proof

  • Hippolyte Verly: Essai de biographie lilloise contemporaine: 1800-1869 . Leleu, Lille 1869

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personal data
SURNAME Macquart, Justin Pierre Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Hazebrouck
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1855
Place of death Lestrem