Félix Biet

Félix Biet (1838, Langres, Haute-Marne – 1901, Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or) was a French missionary from Paris Foreign Missions Society and naturalist.

Félix Biet was ordained as a priest in 1864. He was next sent to Tatsienlu in Tibet as a missionary and he became the Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Thibet, now Diocese of Kangding, in 1898. Félix Biet collected butterflies for Charles Oberthür who dedicated three new species (Thecla bieti, Pantoporia bieti and Anthocharis bieti) to him. Alphonse Milne-Edwards described the Chinese Mountain Cat and the Black Snub-nosed Monkey from specimens collected by Biet and the Biet's Laughingthrush a Chinese endemic species was another discovery, named by Émile Oustalet in 1897. His natural history collections from Tibet and China are in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

He was succeeded by Pierre-Philippe Giraudeau.

References

• Adrien Launay (1916), Mémorial de la Société des missions étrangères
• Françoise Fauconnet-Buzelin (2012), Les Martyrs oubliés du Tibet. Chronique d'une rencontre manquée (1855-1940), éd. du Cerf, coll. Petit Cerf, Paris, 2012, 656 pages