Jules Pierre Rambur

Jules Pierre Rambur ( born July 21, 1801 in Ingrandes at Chinon; † August 10, 1870 in Geneva) was a French physician and entomologist.

He studied at Tours and Montpellier medicine. He received his doctoral degree in September 1827 in Paris. With his childhood friend Adolphe de Graslin (1802-1882) and Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (1799-1879) he published the multi-volume collection iconographique et historique of chenille d'Europe (Paris, 1832-1843 ).

1829 to 1830, he traveled to Corsica and published in 1832 the Catalogue des lépidoptères de l' île de Corse. On February 29, 1832, he participated in the founding meeting of the Société entomologique de France. 1834 to 1835 he undertook together with Graslin a great trip through Andalusia, whose results he entomologique in the Faune de l' Andalousie ( 2 volumes, 1837-1840 ) and systématique in the Catalogue des Lépidoptères de l' Andalousie ( 1858-1866 ) published. He married in 1841 and settled as a physician in Seiches (Maine -et- Loire), and later he lived in Saint- Christophe ( Indre- et- Loire), in Tours, and finally in Geneva.

Swell

  • Jean Gouillard: Histoire des entomologistes français, 1750-1950. Édition revue et entièrement augmentée. Paris, Boubée 2004
  • Jean Lhoste: Les français Entomologistes. From 1750 to 1950. INRA Éditions, 1987
  • Physician (19th century)
  • Entomologist
  • Lepidopterist
  • Odonatologe
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1801
  • Died in 1870
  • Man
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