Edmond de Sélys Longchamps

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Edmond de Sélys Longchamps
President of the Senate
In office
3 August 1880 – 23 July 1884
Preceded byCamille de Tornaco
Succeeded byJules d'Anethan
Personal details
Born(1813-05-25)25 May 1813
Paris,
Odonatology
Author abbrev. (zoology)Sélys
Coat of arms of Selys-Longchamps

Baron Michel Edmond de Selys Longchamps

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
.

Biography

Selys was a wealthy aristocrat born in Paris to Michel Laurent de Selys Longchamps and Marie-Denise Gandolphe. He was educated at home by private tutors and never attended school or university. Nevertheless, he became known as the world's leading authority on

Belgian Senate from 1880 to 1884.[1][2]

His early interest in birds is shown by a book of coloured figures of Belgian species painted when he was 16. Ornithology remained a lifelong interest and he assembled an ornithological museum at Waremme, maintaining very large collections of birds, both European and exotic, including a

phylogenetic and morphological
notes.

Selys met and began a collaboration with

nomina nuda). This led to much later nomenclatural confusion. Selys was an inveterate traveller, spending long periods in most European countries and being an honorary member of almost all European entomological societies including the Royal Entomological Society which so honoured him in 1871. He helped to found the Société Entomologique de Belgique in 1856. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1873.[3]

He amassed the greatest collection of

Hope Department of Entomology, University of Oxford. He died at Liège
.

Honours

Works

Selys published over 250 works on entomology, ornithology and other topics in natural history:

Odonata
Birds
  • Observations sur les phénomènes périodique du règne animal, et particulièrement sur les migrations des oiseaux en Belgique, de 1841 à 1846 Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 21 pdf from GDZ[permanent dead link]
General
  • Faune belge. Première partie. Indication méthodique des mammifères, oiseaux, reptiles et poissons, observés jusqu'ici en Belgique. Faune Belge i–xii + 1–310 (1842)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Pronunciation: French: [lɔ̃ʃɑ̃]
  1. ^ Essig 1931
  2. ^ Wasscher & Dumont 2013
  3. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  4. ^ "De SELYS LONGCHAMPS". Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  5. ^ Handelsblad (Het) 12 June 1882
  6. ^ "De SELYS LONGCHAMPS". Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  7. ^ "De SELYS LONGCHAMPS". Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2016.

References

English

French

  • Coen, J., Michel-Edmond de Selys-Longchamps 1813–1900. Gentilhomme et démocrate, 1982, 217 p.
  • N.N., A la mémoire de Michel Edmond Baron de Selys-Longchamps 1813–1900, Liège, Impr. H. Vaillart-Carmanne, 1901, 51 p.
  • Yans, M., L'Atavisme d'un grand parlementaire de Léopold II : Michel Edmond Baron de Selys-Longchamps, in : Cahiers Léopoldiens, New Series, 1959–1960, nr. 7, p. 59.
  • Nicole Caulier-Mathy en Nicole Haesenne-Peremans, 2008 Une vie au fil des jours.Journal d’un notable politicien et naturaliste, Michel-Edmond de Selys-Longchamps (1823–1900), 2 vol., LXV-1747 p., 25 ill., 2 genealogische tafels.(Collectie Groot in-8°).

Further reading

  • Kirby, W.F. 1890. A synonymic catalogue of Neuroptera Odonata, or dragonflies. Gurney and Jackson, London, ix + 202 pp.

External links

Political offices
Preceded by
President of the Senate

1880–1884 		Succeeded by
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