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Victor Auzat

c. 1905

Jean François Victor Auzat (January 3, 1865 – September 27, 1939) was a French physician and amateur entomologist who specialized in beetles of the family Histeridae. A monograph work on the Gallo-Rhenish Histeridae that he began was unfinished and never published.

Auzat was born in Saint-Germain-de-Lembron (Puy-de-Dôme). He went to school at Clermont-Ferrand and became a school teacher in 1883. In 1886 he received a degree in natural science and a doctorate in 1890. He taught at the Orléans High School (1891), the Janson-de-Sailly High School (1892), and the Saint-Louis High School (1894). In 1894 he joined the faculty of medicine in Paris and became a doctor of medicine in 1903. He worked as an assistant professor at the Collège Rollin (Paris). In 1919 he became an officer of public instruction. He was a member of the Entomological Society of France from 1904 and in 1927 he received the Dollfus Prize of the Society. In 1908 he received the cross of agricultural merit.[1][2][3]

Auzat published widely on the Histeridae[4][5][6] and his collections went to the entomologist Therond and are now held in the museum of natural history in Paris.[1][7]

References

  1. ^ a b "AUZAT Jean François Victor". Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques.
  2. ^ Gomy, Yves (2009). "« Les travaux d'Entomologie du Dr. V. AUZAT ». Compléments bibliographiques" (PDF). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie. Nouvelle série. 26 (1): 58.
  3. ^ Gomy, Yves (1995). "Victor Auzat (1865-1939) ou l'œuvre inachevée". Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie. Nouvelle série. 12 (1): 3–15.
  4. ^ Auzat, Victor (1917). "Revision des Gnathoncus [Col. Histeridae] français". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 22 (13): 206–208. Bibcode:1917AnSEF..22..206A. doi:10.3406/bsef.1917.28860.
  5. ^ Auzat, Victor (1916). "Description d'un Saprinus nouveau d'Australie [Col. Histeridae]". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 21 (7): 132–133. Bibcode:1916AnSEF..21..132A. doi:10.3406/bsef.1916.25908.
  6. ^ Auzat, Jean-François-Victor (1919). "Notes sur les variétés et la nomenclature l'Hololepta plana [Col. Histeridae]". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 24 (11): 199–200. Bibcode:1919AnSEF..24..199A. doi:10.3406/bsef.1919.26442.
  7. ^ Cambefort, Yves (2006). ""Amateurs et professionnels"". Des coléoptères, des collections et des hommes. Publications scientifiques du Muséum. pp. 99–313. doi:10.4000/books.mnhn.2310. ISBN 978-2-85653-594-3.