Alexandre Constantinovich Chnéour, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexandre Constantinovich Chnéour

Russian scientist

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1884

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 16-Sep-1977

Profession: lepidopterist, herpetologist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Alexandre Constantinovich Chnéour

  • Alexandre Constantinovich (or Konstantinovitsch) Chnéour (he signed Schneeur on some articles written in German) (August 30, 1884, Saint Petersburg -September 16, 1977, San Francisco) was a Russian entomologist and herpetologist. As a young man Chnéour had an early passion for butterflies.
  • After travelling in Germany and in Switzerland, he studied at the school "Gurevich de Saint-Pétersbourg," then at the "Mihailovsky Artillery School".
  • He left there with the rank of lieutenant and became an officer in a mobile unit artillery. Decorated at the very start of the First World War he joined, in 1916, the Russian Air Force and started a short career in aviation.
  • He supplemented his military training with studies at the Military Academy. During the Soviet Revolution of 1917, he joined the anticommunist White Army and fought in the mountains of the Caucasus.
  • He was later evacuated to the Gallipoli camp in Turkey. Chnéour then went to Bulgaria where he gave courses in a military academy of engineering to members of the white army.
  • He then settled in Lyon then, in 1929, in Tunisia, where he worked as a cartographer. Chnéour started to write on the butterflies of Tunisia in 1934, publishing, between 1934 and 1937, six articles in German under the name Schneeur.
  • Until 1956, he regularly published articles on the butterflies of Tunisia.
  • With N Chpakowsky, he also published an article on the snakes of Tunisia. Chnéour had to leave Tunisia at the time of its independence in 1956.
  • He emigrated to the United States with his collection.
  • He lived initially in New York where, with the American Museum of Natural History, he checked the identification of his Tunisian captures.
  • He was then injured by a fall in the library where he worked.
  • Chnéour next settled in California and gave his collections to the California Academy of Sciences.
  • At the age of 90 years he was wounded by a burglar and had to be hospitalized.

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