Hercule Nicolet
Illustration — Batocera wallacei Hercule Nicolet (18 January 1801 in Neuchâtel – 16 September 1872) born Louis-Ami-Hercule Nicolet, was a Swiss lithographer, natural history illustrator, librarian at École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort from 1861 to 1870, and entomologist who specialized in Thysanura and Collembola. The son of Bénédict-Alphonse Nicolet (1743–1807). He was the business partner of Jean Coulin (1822–1883) in the lithographic firm of Hercule "Nicolet and Coulin fils", pressing the plates for Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel co-edited by Louis Agassiz and many other geological and natural history works.
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Illustration — Batocera wallacei Hercule Nicolet (18 January 1801 in Neuchâtel – 16 September 1872) born Louis-Ami-Hercule Nicolet, was a Swiss lithographer, natural history illustrator, librarian at École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort from 1861 to 1870, and entomologist who specialized in Thysanura and Collembola. The son of Bénédict-Alphonse Nicolet (1743–1807). He was the business partner of Jean Coulin (1822–1883) in the lithographic firm of Hercule "Nicolet and Coulin fils", pressing the plates for Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel co-edited by Louis Agassiz and many other geological and natural history works.
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He wrote Recherches pour Servir á l'Histoire des Podurelles. Nat, 6, pp. 1–88 (1842) and "Essai sur une classification des insectes aptères, de l'ordre des Thysanoures" (Séance du 25 Mars 1846) in the Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 2e Série, Tome V, pp. He was a Member of the Société entomologique de France.
He was employed by École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort and Joséphine-Clémence Formentin. He belonged to Société entomologique de France.
Pl. 9 Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des Podurelles
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1801
Hercule Nicolet was born in 1801 at La Ferrière.
1872
Hercule Nicolet died in 1872 at Versailles.
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Hercule Nicolet (1801-1872) et l'Institut lithographique de Neuchâtel (2014) — DataCite (Schweizerische Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft)
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Taxonomy of Pinnotheres bipunctatus Nicolet, 1849 with a distributional checklist of the Pinnotheridae of Chile and Peru, and a list of the Crustacea described by Hercule Nicolet in the Atlas of the Physical and Political History of Chile, Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2017.
Nicolet, Hercule, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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