About Pierre Rambur
Lived 1801 – 1870 (aged 69). Pierre Rambur was a French lepidopterist, physician, malacologist, entomologist, zoologist and zoological collector.
Jules Pierre Rambur (; 21 July 1801 – 10 August 1870) was a French entomologist.
Rambur was born in Chinon. He studied the insect fauna of Corsica and Andalusia. He was the author of Histoire naturelle des insectes (1842) amongst other works. He died in Geneva.
He was a Member and later (1839) President of the Société entomologique de France.
Publications Catalogue des lépidoptères insectes Néuroptères de l'île de Corse (1832) Faune entomologique de l'Andalousie (two volumes, 1837–1840) Histoire naturelle des insectes (part of the Suites à Buffon, 1842) Catalogue systématique des Lépidoptères de l'Andalousie (1858–1866). with Adolphe Hercule de Graslin and Jean Baptiste Boisduval Collection iconographique et historique des chenilles; ou, Description et figures des chenilles d'Europe, avec l'histoire de leurs métamorphoses, et des applications à l'agriculture Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1832.
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French physician and entomologist (1801-1870)
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Pierre Rambur was born on 21 July 1801 in Ingrandes-de-Touraine.
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Pierre Rambur died on 10 August 1870 in Geneva.
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Pierre Rambur was a lepidopterist, physician, malacologist, entomologist, zoologist and zoological collector.
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Pierre Rambur was French.
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· DBpedia: Jules Pierre Rambur
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