Gaspard Auguste Brullé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French entomologist (1809–1873)
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Gaspard Auguste Brullé
- Gaspard Auguste Brullé (7 April 1809, Paris – 21 January 1873, Dijon) was a French entomologist. Passionnate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of Georges Cuvier, he participated in the Morea expedition organised by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1829. In 1832, he participated in the foundation of the Société entomologique de France.
- The following year he became an aide-naturaliste (assistant naturalist) to Jean Victoire Audouin in charge of Crustacea, Arachnida and insects. Brullé studied for and obtained a baccalauréat in sciences then in "lettres", before qualifying in 1839 as a Doctor of Natural Science.
- His thesis, published in 1837, was Sur le gisement des insectes fossiles et sur les services que l'étude de ces animaux peut fournir à la géologie.
- He became the Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Dijon. He proposed a new classification of Neuroptera which was completed by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson.
- He also wrote the introduction, parts of the text of Histoire naturelle des insectes coléoptères (published in 1840) with Francis de Laporte de Castelnau and parts of Histoire naturelle des insectes.
- Hyménoptères with Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau. Étienne Mulsant named the ladybird beetle species Scymnus brullei in his honor
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