Julien François Desjardins

Julien François Desjardins ( born July 27, 1799 in Centre de Flacq, Mauritius, † April 18, 1840 in Paris, France ) was a Franco- Mauritian zoologist.

Life

From 1822 to 1824 Desjardins studied in Paris, where he took classes with, among others, Louis Jacques Thénard, Joseph Louis Gay -Lussac, Pierre André Latreille and René Desfontaines. He worked as a civil engineer before he discovered his passion for zoology.

On August 11, 1829 Desjardins next to Charles Telfair, Jacques Delisse and Wenceslas Boii was one of the founding members of the Société royale des Arts et des Sciences de l' île Maurice. Desjardins was the first secretary of this society and first editor of the annual journal "Rapport annuel sur les travaux de la Société d' histoire naturelle de l' île Maurice" until he returned in 1839 to France.

Desjardins zoological collections, which he amassed in Mauritius, were first kept in 1842, inaugurated by Governor William Maynard Gomm Desjardins Museum in Port Louis. 1885 went to the museum with a library in the Mauritius Institute.

Dedikationsnamen

Félix Édouard Guérin - Méneville named the Käfertaxa Cryptamorpha desjardinsii and Trochoideus desjardinsi as well as the extinct species of butterfly Euploea desjardinsii in honor of Desjardins.