Henry Wilfred Brolemann (10 July 1860 – 31 July 1933) was a French
myriapodologist
Myriapodology is the scientific study of myriapods which includes centipedes and millipedes. The field of myriapodology can also cover other myriapods such as pauropods and symphylans. Those who study myriapods are myriapodologists.
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and former president of the
Société entomologique de France known for major works on
centipede
Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...
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millipedes, of which he named some 500 species. Brolemann was born on 10 July 1860 in Paris, to a wealthy family of
Israelite industrialists and bankers that had long since converted to
Protestantism. He graduated from the
University of Paris and was in the banking business early in life, then left for studies in the United States, including at
Indiana University,
and then studied in Italy before returning to France and becoming one of the world's experts in myriapods. Brolemann was fluent in English, German and Italian, and wrote in Spanish and Portuguese.
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External links
List of Brolemann's publications on myriapodsfrom th
International Society of Myriapodology
1860 births
1933 deaths
Myriapodologists
French entomologists
Presidents of the Société entomologique de France
Scientists from Paris
19th-century French zoologists
20th-century French zoologists
University of Paris alumni
People from Béarn
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