Félix Biet
Deceased Person
1838 – 1901
Who was Félix Biet?
Félix Biet was a French missionary from Paris Foreign Missions Society and naturalist.
Félix Biet was ordained as a priest in 1864. He was next sent to Tatsienlu in Tibet as a missionary and he became the Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Thibet, now Diocese of Kangding, in 1898. Félix Biet collected butterflies for Charles Oberthür who dedicated three new species to him. Alphonse Milne-Edwards described the Chinese Mountain Cat and the Black Snub-nosed Monkey from specimens collected by Biet and the Biet's Laughingthrush a Chinese endemic species was another discovery, named by Émile Oustalet in 1897. His natural history collections from Tibet and China are in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.
He was succeeded by Pierre-Philippe Giraudeau.
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