François-Xavier Bélanger
Canadian scientist (1833–1882) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
François-Xavier Bélanger (1833 – 19 January 1882) was a French-Canadian naturalist and museum curator. An autodidact like many naturalists of the time, he specialized in the study of Microlepidoptera. Thanks to the influence of Léon Abel Provancher and Thomas-Étienne Hamel, he became curator of the zoology museum at Université Laval, where although he did a good job of enlarging the total collection, he did so in a generally poorly organized way. He was succeeded by his assistant curator Charles-Eusèbe Dionne.
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François-Xavier Bélanger | |
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Born | 1833 (1833) |
Died | January 19, 1882 (aged 48–49) |
Known for | Museum curator, Microlepidoptera studies |
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Fields | Natural history, entomology |
Institutions | Université Laval |
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