List of coleopterists

Notable students of coleopterology (beetles) include the following.

Coleopterists from Austria

* Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre
* Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid
* Johann Angelo Ferrari
* Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller
* Eduard Knirsch
* Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting
* Johann Carl Megerle von Mühlfeld
* Ludwig Redtenbacher
* Pater Gabriel Strobl

Coleopterists from Belgium

* Ernest Candèze
* Félicien Chapuis
* Jean Theodore Lacordaire
* Auguste Lameere

Coleopterists from Denmark

* Johan Christian Fabricius
* Otto Friedrich Müller

Coleopterists from England (United Kingdom)

* Herbert Edward Andrewes
* Gilbert John Arrow
* Joseph Sugar Baly
* Henry Walter Bates
* George Charles Champion
* James Cook Endeavour captain.
* George Robert Crotch Also U.S.A.
* Roy Crowson
* John Curtis
* Charles Darwin
* Horace Donisthorpe
* William Weekes Fowler
* Edward Wesley Janson
* Oliver Erichson Janson
* Norman H. Joy
* William Elford Leach
* John Henry Leech
* Thomas Marsham
* Philip Brookes Mason
* Andrew Murray
* Frederic John Sidney Parry
* David Sharp
* William Edward Shuckard
* James Francis Stephens
* James John Walker
* Thomas Vernon Wollaston

Coleopterists from Estonia

* Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz

Coleopterists from Finland

* Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist)

Coleopterists from France

* Charles Nicholas Aubé
* Alfred Balachowsky
* Ernest Marie Louis Bedel
* Louis Beguin-Billecocq
* Nicolas Adolphe Bellevoye
* Jules Bourgeois
* Charles N.F Brisout
* Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet
* Louis Companyo
* François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau
* Jean-Charles Chenu
* Louis Alexander Auguste Chevrolat
* Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
* Achille Deyrolle
* Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac
* André Marie Constant Duméril
* Etienne Louis Geoffroy
* Joseph-Étienne Giraud
* Jean-Étienne Girard
* Auguste Jean François Grenier
* Émile Joseph Isidore Gobert
* Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du Val
* Charles Georges Javet
* Jean Theodore Lacordaire
* Pierre André Latreille
* Edouard Lefèvre
* Charles Eugène Leprieur
* Sylvain Auguste de Marseul
* Édouard Ménétries (Also Russia)
* Étienne Mulsant
* René Oberthür
* Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
* Louis Pandelle
* Auguste Simon Paris
* Maurice Pic
* Louis Jérôme Reiche
* Maurice Auguste Régimbart
* Auguste Sallé
* Antoine Joseph Jean Solier

Coleopterists from Germany

* Michael Bach
* Hans Bischoff
* Oskar Boettger
* Johann Friedrich von Brandt
* Christian Casimir Brittinger
* Heinrich Christian Burckhardt
* Carl Gustav Calwer
* Rudolph Dittrich
* Carl August Dohrn
* Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
* Arnold Foerster
* Ernst Friedrich Germar
* Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
* Carl Heinrich Georg(es) von Heyden
* Walther Hermann Richard Horn
* Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
* Carl Gustav Jablonsky
* Martin Jacoby
* Gustav Jäger
* Ernest August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter
* Theodor Franz Wilhelm Kirsch
* Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
* Hermann Julius Kolbe
* Johann Gottlieb Kugelann
* Gustav Kunze
* Wilhelm Mink
* John Nietner
* Georg Hermann Alexander Ochs
* Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
* Maximilian Perty
* Edmund Reitter
* Hermann Rudolph Schaum
* Sigmund Schenkling
* Friedrich Julius Schilsky
* Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz
* Jacob Sturm

Coleopterists from Hungary

* Karel Brančik
* Friedrich F. Tippmann

Coleopterists from Ireland

* James Nathaniel Halbert
* Alexander Henry Haliday
* William Frederick Johnson
* Eugene O'Mahoney

Coleopterists from Italy

* Pietro Bargagli
* Flaminio Baudi di Selve
* Franco Andrea Bonelli
* Carlo Emery
* Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme
* Raffaello Gestro
* Bernardino Halbherr
* Paolo Luigioni
* Francisco Minà Palumbo
* Carlo Passerini
* Leonello Picco
* Odorado Pirazzoli
* Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Coleopterists from Japan

* Tusnamitsu Adachi

Coleopterists from Norway

* Embrik Strand

Coleopterists from Russia

* Maximilien Chaudoir
* Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky
* Édouard Ménétries (Also France)
* Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky
* Tikhon Sergeyevich Tschitscherine

Coleopterists from Spain

*José María Hugo de la Fuente Morales
*Ignacio Bolívar
*Fermín Martín Piera
*Cándido Bolívar Pieltain

Coleopterists from Sweden

* Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
* Carl Henrik Boheman
* Charles De Geer
* Leonard Gyllenhaal
* Carolus Linnaeus
* Gustaf von Paykull
* Carl Johan Schönherr
* Carl Peter Thunberg
* Carl Gustaf Thomson

Coleopterists from Switzerland

* Louis Agassiz (Also USA)
* Oswald Heer
* Johann Rudolph Schellenberg

Coleopterists from the United States of America

* Louis Agassiz (Also Switzerland)
* Ross H. Arnett, Jr.
* George Robert Crotch
* William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes
* Henry Guernsey Hubbard
* John Lawrence LeConte
* Eugene Amandus Schwarz
* Herbert Huntingdon Smith
* Michael C. Thomas

Portraits of famous Coleopterists

[http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/brit_pg.htm High definition portraits from Russia]

To be categorised

* Herbert Edward Cox
* George Crabbe
* Eleanor Glanville
* Frederick DuCane Godman
* Thomas H.M. Gorden
* Guido Nonveiller

ee also

* Timeline of Entomology
* Entomology

External links

* [http://www.coleopterist.org.uk "The Coleopterist"] - includes a biographical dictionary of British coleopterists
* [http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/index2.htm Scarab Workers World Directory]
* [http://www.koleopterologie.de/arbeitsgemeinschaft/historie/biografien/ahnen/ahnen-uebersicht.html German Coleopterists]
* [http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/france1.htm ZinRu] Gouillard J. 2004. "Histoire des entomologistes francais (1750-1950). Edition entierement revue et augmentee". Paris, Societe Nouvelle des Editions Boubee. 288 pp.