Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
{{for|the French naturalist and specialist on fireflies|Ernest Olivier}}
{{short description|French entomologist (1756–1814)}}
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Guillaume-Antoine Olivier ({{IPA|fr|ɡijom ɑ̃twan ɔlivje}}; 19 January 1756, Les Arcs near Toulon – 1 October 1814, Lyon) was a French entomologist and naturalist.
Life
Olivier studied medicine in Montpellier, where he became good friends with Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet. With Jean Guillaume Bruguière and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck .Jean-Baptiste-François Gigot d'Orcy later employed Olivier who was then able to travel to England and Holland meeting Thomas Martyn in London. In 1789 and 1790 he published the first two volumes of the Histoire naturelle des Coléoptères for Gigot d'Orcy, and simultaneously, thanks to Daubenton's recommendation, collaborated in the Dictionnaire de l'Histoire naturelle des Insectes, Papillons, Crustacés and collaborated in the creation of Journal d'Histoire Naturelle (1792). Afterwards, he served as a naturalist on a 6-year scientific journey that took him to Asia Minor, Persia, Egypt, Cyprus and Corfu. He returned to France in 1798 with a large collection of natural history specimens from his travels. Later, he was associated with the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, where in 1811, he was appointed professor of zoology.[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000006163 JSTOR Global Plants] (biography) Olivier was a close friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a patron of Pierre André Latreille.{{Cite web |url=http://unsm-ento.unl.edu/workers/GOlivier.htm |title=Guillaume Olivier 1756–1814 |publisher=University of Nebraska–Lincoln |access-date=31 January 2021}}
Although primarily an entomologist, Olivier also worked in the scientific field of herpetology, describing several new species of Asian lizards."Olivier". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. He also described a few plant species, including Prunus arabica and Quercus libani.
Works
Olivier was the author of Coléoptères Paris Baudouin 1789–1808 (11 editions),{{cite book|last1=Olivier|first1=Guillaume Antoine|title=Entomologie, ou, Histoire naturelle des insectes : avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur enluminée / Coléoptères|url=https://archive.org/details/entomologieouhi05oliv|date=1789|publisher=De l'Imprimerie de Baudoin|location=Paris, France|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.61905}} Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes (1808) and Le Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse (1807). He was a contributor to Encyclopédie Méthodique.
Legacy
{{see also|:Category:Taxa named by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier}}
Today, most of his collection is housed at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.[http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/GOlivier.htm University of Nebraska-Lincoln State Museum - Division of Entomology] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522152051/http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/GOlivier.htm |date=2018-05-22 }} (biographical information)
A species of lizard, Mesalina olivieri, is named in his honor.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Olivieri", pp. 194–195).
References
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External links
- Olivier GA (1800). Voyage dans l'empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fait par ordre du gouvernement, pendant les six premières années de la république. [https://archive.org/details/voyagedanslempir01oliv Vol I] - [https://archive.org/details/voyagedanslempir02oliv Vol II] - [ Vol III] - [ Vol IV] - [https://archive.org/details/voyagedanslempi01olivgoog Vol V] - [https://archive.org/details/voyagedanslempi00olivgoog Vol VI]
- {{Internet Archive author|sname=Guillaume Antoine Olivier}}
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