Sylvain Auguste de Marseul

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Sylvain Auguste de Marseul

Sylvain Auguste de Marseul (born January 21, 1812 in Fougerolles-du-Plessis , † April 16, 1890 in Paris ) was a French clergyman and entomologist specializing in beetles.

Life

The Abbé Marseul taught at the Petit séminaire in Paris from 1833 to 1836, founded a college in Laval in 1842 and taught again in Paris from 1850 to 1853. On a trip to America in 1854 he became interested in entomology.

In 1864 he founded a magazine for beetle science, called L'Abeille (Die Biene), which was continued as editor after his death by Ernest Marie Louis Bedel (1849-1922) and René Gabriel Jeannel (1879-1965). In it, Marseul also published on the history of entomology in France.

He was considered an authority on stutz beetles (Histeridea) and dealt with leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae). Among other things, he named the tribe Tropiphorini from the Entiminae in 1863 .

His collection is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and his library is in the Société entomologique de France , of which he was president in 1871.

Memberships

In 1841 de Marseul was introduced by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville as member number 220 of the Société cuviérienne .

Fonts

  • Éléments d'arithmétique raisonnée, à l'usage des frères de Saint-Joseph. Périsse frères, Paris and Lyon, 1839
  • Catalog des coléoptères d'Europe. Paris, 1857
  • Catalog des coléoptères d'Europe et du bassin de la Mediterranée en Afrique et en Asie. A. Deyrolle, Paris, 1863
  • Catalogus coleopterorum Europae et confinium. A. Deyrolle, Paris, 1866
  • Essai monographique de la famille des Histérides. In: Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 1854 to 1862

literature

  • Jean Gouillard: History of the French entomologists, 1750-1950. Boubée, Paris 2004
  • Jean Lhoste: French Entomologists. 1750-1950. INRA Editions, 1987
  • Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 4 , 1841, p. 96 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Marseul, Sylvain Auguste de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Fougerolles-du-Plessis
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1890
Place of death Paris