Edouard Piaget

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Edouard Piaget ( 3 November 1817 , Les Bayards- 10 September 1910, Couvet ) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in Phthiraptera.

As a young man he became a teacher of French at Mr. de Raedt's College at Instituut Noorthey in Holland. After obtaining a doctorate in Roman Law at Leiden University he did not practise this profession but remained in Holland as a private tutor until he was appointed Professor of French and History at the Erasmian Gymnasium in Rotterdam in 1844. He next taught at the Higher Citizen's school in Rotterdam.In 1884 when he returned to Les Bayards to live with his sister.

Piaget's collection of "Pédiculines" was obtained from animals in the Zoological Gardens at Rotterdam and from skins in the Leiden Natural History Museum.It was enhanced by specimens from all over the world sent for identification and description.

His entomological collection and herbarium and his library, were given to the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in Neuchâtel. It is now in the Natural History Museum in London.

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Monographs

(1880) Les pédiculines: Essay monographique. Leiden, Brill, E. J., 714 pp. pdf [1]
(1885) Les Pediculines. Essai monographique. Supplement. E. J. Brill, xii+200pp.[2]