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Guillaume Antoine Olivier
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (January 19 1756October 1 1814), was a French entomologist.

He was the author of Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes (1808) and Le Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse (1807). He was a close friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a patron of Pierre André Latreille.




Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes
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Entomology, from the Greek: entomo-/εντομο- "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented", hence "insect"; and logos/λόγος, "knowledge",[1] is the scientific study of insects.
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Johan Christian Fabricius (January 7, 1745 - March 3, 1808) was a Danish entomologist and economist.

Fabricius was born at Tønder in South Jutland. He studied at the gymnasium at Altona and entered the University of Copenhagen in 1762.
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Pierre André Latreille (November 20, 1762 - February 6, 1833) was a French entomologist. His works describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today.
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