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Joachim François Philibert Feisthamel

Joachim François Philibert Feisthamel

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Baron Joachim-François Philibert Julien de Feisthamel (15 February 1791 – 17 January 1851) was a French entomologist.[1][2][3]

Tomb of Feisthamel

Born in Dieuze, Baron Joachim de Feisthamel was a soldier, variously a major d'infanterie, colonel then maréchal de camp. He was a Member of the Société Entomologique de France and a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour. He died in Paris.[4]

Works

partial list

  • 1835 Heliconia leprieuri Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4:631–632, plate 18
  • 1839. Supplement a la zoologie du voyage de la Favorite comprenant la description de lepidopteres nouveaux. Mag. Zool. 9:17–26; 10 plates. [Reprinted in 1840: 13 pp., 10 pls. Paris: Bertrand] (Supplement to Laplace, Cyrille Pierre Theodore Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine : execute sur la corvette de l'etat La Favorite pendant les annees 1830, 1831 et 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace capitaine de fregate Paris Imprimerie Royale, 1833–1839)
  • 1850. Description de quelques Lépidoptères Rhopalocéres nouveaux ou peu connus, provenant de la Cazamance (Afrique) Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (2) 8 : 247–262
  • several papers on Coleoptera in Magasin de Zoologie and Annales de la Société Entomologique de France

The butterfly Iphiclides feisthamelii was named in his honour.

References

  1. [1]
    Annuaire officiel des officiers de l'armée active France Ministère de la guerre "Feistham[m]el (Joachim-F. P. J. ) Off, garde municipale."
  2. [2]
    Moniteur des dates: – Page 70 Eduard Maria Oettinger, Hugo Schramm-Macdonald, Karl August Kesselmeyer – 1869 Feisthamel (Joachim François Philibert , franzosischer General-Major, Chef des Gener stabs"
  3. [3]
    Feisthamel, Joachim François Philibert
  4. [4]
    Chuquet, Arthur Maxime (1915). Feuilles d'histoire du XVIIe au XXe siècle (in French). Librairie R. Roger et F. Chernoviz. p. 154. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  • Jean Lhoste (1987). Les Entomologistes français. 1750–1950. INRA Éditions .
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