Charles Boursin

Charles Boursin (6 December 1901 – 27 December 1971) was a French entomologist.

Early life

Boursin was born into a comfortable bourgeois Catholic family in Nantes. he spoke German from his earliest days and remained "perfectly" bilingual in both during his lifetime. and in 1933 was awarded the Constant Prize of the Entomological Society of France for his work on the Lepidoptera subfamily, Trifinae, of the family Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). In 1938 Prior to his death he had sold ("en viager") his library and his collection to the Museum of Karlsruhe (thereby giving him a continuing source of money until his death, while at the same time having use of both library and collection). In 1967 the collection consisted of 29,245 specimens of Trifinae (including 171 holotypes, 1990 paratypes, 3800 genital preparations and 12000 photos). At his death he had contributed some 200 scientific papers to the entomological literature.

Selected publications