Henry Wilfred Brolemann (10 July 1860 – 31 July 1933) was a French myriapodologist and former president of the

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known for major works on centipedes and

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s, of which he named some 500 species. Brolemann was born on 10 July 1860 in Paris, to a wealthy family of

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industrialists and bankers that had long since converted to

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. He graduated from the

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and was in the banking business early in life, then left for studies in the United States, including at

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, and then studied in Italy before returning to France and becoming one of the world's experts in myriapods. Brolemann was fluent in English, German and Italian, and wrote in Spanish and Portuguese.

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List of Brolemann's publications on myriapods
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International Society of Myriapodology
1860 births 1933 deaths Myriapodologists French entomologists Presidents of the Société entomologique de France Scientists from Paris 19th-century French zoologists 20th-century French zoologists University of Paris alumni People from Béarn {{entomologist-stub