Enrico Brunetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Enrico Brunetti

British musician and entomologist

Date of Birth: 22-May-1862

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1927

Profession: composer, musician, entomologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Enrico Brunetti

  • Enrico Adelelmo Brunetti (22 May 1862 – 21 January 1927) was a British musician and entomologist. Brunetti was born in London.
  • His mother was English and his father, of Italian origin, was a confectioner and importer of wines who ran a restaurant in South Kensington.
  • A musician by profession, Brunetti was a composer for orchestra and piano.
  • He spent his free time studying entomology, especially Diptera.
  • In 1904 he made a musical tour of the Dutch East Indies, China and Japan making extensive insect collections on his travels.
  • He later settled in Calcutta where he stayed for 17 years.
  • He spent his summers in Darjeeling and wrote many papers in the Records of the Indian Museum.
  • He briefly worked as an Assistant Superintendent in charge at the Indian Museum working on honoraria ranging from 30 to 300 GBP per annum.
  • At the suggestion of Thomas Nelson Annandale he was sanctioned leave to go to England to revise his work on Indian Diptera using the material at the British Museum.
  • For this task the Government of India approved 300 GBP for the period of a year.
  • In 1921 he returned to Europe, spending his summers in England where The Imperial Bureau of Entomology employed him to identify specimens.
  • Winters were spent in Paris and Brussels.
  • He worked for long periods on British Diptera.
  • He fell ill during a winter in Paris in 1926-27 and died in a hospital in London.Before his death, Brunetti gave his collection of 80,000 specimens, and his library to the Natural History Museum.
  • This museum also his manuscripts:- 56 letters and two bound manuscript volumes regarding African and Australasian Diptera. The Psychodid genus Brunettia Annandale, 1910 was named by Annandale in honour of Enrico Brunetti.

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