René Jeannel

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René Jeannel
René Jeannel, c. 1905
Born	(1879-03-23)23 March 1879 Paris, France
Died	20 February 1965(1965-02-20) (aged 85) Paris, France
Education	Science Faculty of Paris (1911) Faculté de médecine de Paris (1907) University of Toulouse
Known for	French entomologist
Parent	Maurice Jeannel (father)

René Jeannel (23 March 1879 – 20 February 1965) was a French

In 1905 he began a life-long friendship and collaboration with Romanian biologist Emile Racovitza. In the first 17 years alone they jointly explored 1,400 caves in southern Europe and North Africa and published descriptions of the caves and their fauna. When Racovitza was invited to found a biospeleological institute in Cluj, Jeannel became his deputy director until 1927, when Jeannel obtained a chair in entomology in the Paris museum.^[2]

Despite his administrative positions, Jeannel remained a productive scientist. In 1911, when he published his 641-page, 657-illustration doctoral thesis on Leptodirini (then called Bathysciinae), he had already produced more than 30 papers. During the rest of his career, he added another 500 scientific publications to this total, together amounting to more than 20,000 published pages—mostly on cave insects and all illustrated by himself.^[2]

Jeannel's most important contribution to taxonomy was that he realised the potential of using the

• Revision des Bathysciinae (Coleoptères silphides): morphologie, distribution géographique, systématique Paris, Libraire A. Schulz (1911).
• Faune cavernicole de la France "The Fauna of the Caves of France") (1940).
• La genèse des faunes terrestres "The Origins of Terrestrial Fauna") (1942).
• Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911–1912). Résultats scientifiques, 1–6. (1913–1919).
• "Monographie des Catopidae". Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (N.S.), 1: 1-435. (1936)
• "L’isolement, facteur de l’évolution" Revue Française d’Entomologie, 8: 101-110. (1942)
• "L’Édéage; initiation aux recherches sur la systématique des Coléoptères" Publications du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 16: 1-155. (1955)

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