Claude Charles Goureau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French entomologist
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Place of Birth: Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Claude Charles Goureau
- Claude Charles Goureau (15 April 1790, Pisy, Yonne – 6 February 1879, Santigny) was a French soldier and entomologist. In 1808, he entered L’École Polytechnique training there until 1810.
- He then spent two years at “L’école du génie” a Military Academy in Metz where he was awarded the rank of second lieutenant.
- During the siege of Magdeburg in 1812, he was promoted to the rank of captain, then, in 1814 to capitaine d’état-major and he also receive the Légion d'honneur.
- He was in command of various fortifications, those of Paris in 1840, but also forts guarding the English Channel at Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine, In 1846, he became an Officer of the Legion of Honour.
- After his retirement, in 1850, to Santigny, he became fully occupied with entomology.
- Goureau was especially devoted to the study of harmful (and later beneficial)insects.
- He became a member of the Société entomologique de France in 1835, becoming vice-president in 1842, 1844 and 1851, president in 1845 and 1852 and an honorary member in 1866.
- He is credited as being the first to recognize structural colors in the seemingly clear transparent wings of Drosophilidae in 1843.
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