About Léon Fairmaire
Lived 1820 – 1906 (aged 85). Léon Fairmaire was a French entomologist and scientific collector.
Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist.
As a specialist in Coleoptera, he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780–1845). This is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Fairmaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera (partial list of papers in Wikispecies). He also worked on Hemiptera.
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Who was Léon Fairmaire?
French entomologist (1820–1906)
When was Léon Fairmaire born?
Léon Fairmaire was born on 29 June 1820 in Paris.
When did Léon Fairmaire die?
Léon Fairmaire died on 1 April 1906 in Paris.
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Léon Fairmaire was an entomologist and scientific collector.
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Léon Fairmaire was French.
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