Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French entomologist
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Place of Birth: Chartres, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie
- Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie (28 January 1844, Chartres – 25 September 1888, Évreux) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. After his studies in Chartres then Paris, Chavignerie worked at the Palais de Justice in Paris from 1844 to 1859.
- He was devoted to Lepidoptera and wrote many scientific papers on them, principally faunistic works.
- The most important were the faunas of the Auvergne (1850), the Alps (de 1854 à 1858), the Pyrénées-Orientales (1858), Sicily (1860) and Corsica (1861).
- Charles Oberthür (1845-1924) acquired his collection after his death.
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