Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Guillaume Antoine Olivier (1756-1814)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Olivier, a physician by training, was one of the great French naturalists and entomologists. He collected extensively in Europe and was employed as a naturalist for six years on a major expedition to Persia. He returned to France in 1798 with major natural history collections from Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia (Iran), Egypt, and some Mediterranean islands. In 1800 he was appointed a Professor of Zoology at the Veterinary; School at Alfort. He was a close friend of Fabricius as well as a patron and protector of Latreille during the revolutionary period of 1810-1814.  His large collection is now mostly at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

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PUBLICATIONS

Olivier, A. G. 1792.  Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Insectes. Tome 6. (pt. 2). Paris: Panckoucke, pp. 369-704.

REFERENCE

Olivier, E. 1830. G.A. Olivier, sa Vie, ses Travaux, ses Voyages. 98pp., bibliography, portrait.

Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton’s Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.