Gaspard Auguste Brullé
Deceased Person
1809 – 1873
Who was Gaspard Auguste Brullé?
Gaspard Auguste Brullé 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 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 with Francis de Laporte de Castelnau and parts of Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères with Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau.
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