Sylvain Auguste de Marseul, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sylvain Auguste de Marseul

French entomologist

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1812

Place of Birth: Fougerolles-du-Plessis, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 16-Apr-1890

Profession: Catholic priest, entomologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Sylvain Auguste de Marseul (January 21, 1812 in Fougerolles-du-Plessis in Normandy – April 16, 1890 in Paris) was a French Roman Catholic priest and entomologist.
He taught in the Petit séminaire de Paris from 1833 to 1836.
In 1842, founded a college at Laval, then from 1850 to 1853, he taught in Paris.
In 1854, he left his college for America where he remained eight months and discovered entomology.
The abbot of Marseul was the author of many publications.
He founded in 1864 a review devoted to the Coleoptera and named L'Abeille, the Bee.
On his death this publication was continued by Ernest Marie Louis Bedel (1849-1922) then by René Gabriel Jeannel (1879-1965).
The abbot also studied the history of the beginnings of French entomology in a series of review article in the Bee under the generic title Entomologistes et de leurs écrits, Entomologists and their writings (1882 to 1887).
His collection is conserved in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and his library in the Société entomologique de France.