About Charles Joseph Devillers
Lived 1724 – 1810 (aged 85). Charles Joseph Devillers was a French naturalist, entomologist and arachnologist.
Charles Joseph Devillers or de Villers (1724 in Rennes – 1810) was a French naturalist.
Charles Devillers was a member of l’Académie des sciences belles-lettres et arts de Lyon from 1764 to 1810. He had a cabinet of curiosities and was interested in physics and mathematics. He published Caroli Linnaei entomologia, in 1789, a collection of the insect descriptions of Carl von Linné. He was a friend of Philibert Commerson (1727–1773), Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert (1741–1814) and Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette (1729–1793).
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When was Charles Joseph Devillers born?
Charles Joseph Devillers was born on 24 July 1724 in Rennes.
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Charles Joseph Devillers died on 3 January 1810 in Lyon.
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Charles Joseph Devillers was a naturalist, entomologist and arachnologist.
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Charles Joseph Devillers was French.
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