Jules Putzeys

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1809|5|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Liège, First French Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1882|1|2|1809|5|1|df=y}}

| honours = Commander in the Order of Leopold

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Jules Antoine Adolphe Henri Putzeys (1 May 1809 – 2 January 1882) was a Belgian magistrate and an entomologist who took a special interest in the beetles belonging to the family Carabidae.

Putzeys was born in Liège and obtained a doctoral degree at the age of 20. He worked at the court of appeal in Liège and later as a substitute for the public prosecutor in Arlon. He moved to the Ministry of Justice in Brussels in 1840 and became a Secretary General in 1858. He was a member of the Commission Centrale de Statistique and was government commissioner for general and international statistics from 1879. He retired in 1880.

In 1851, he was appointed a knight in the Order of Leopold and in 1871 a commander.

Putzeys was also a respected amateur entomologist specializing in the study of beetles belonging to the family Carabidae. He was a close associate of Baron Maximilien de Chaudoir (1816-1881). He bequeathed his collection to the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. A variety of Begonia rex is named after him.{{cite book| author=Dewalque, G. | url=https://archive.org/details/biographienation18acad/page/178/mode/1up|pages=355–356|title=Biographie Nationale. Tome Dix-Huitieme. Ponceau-Reinula|year=1905|place=Bruxelles|publisher=Bruylant-Christophe & Co.}} He was president of the Entomological Society of Belgium from 1874 to 1876 and published two major works, Prémices entomolgiques and Monographie de Clivina et des genres voisins.{{cite journal|author=De Borre, AP |year=1882|title= Notice nécrologique sur Jules Putzeys| journal= Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique|volume= 26|pages=iiii–vii|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25157319|language=fr}}

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