Hercule Nicolet (18 January 1801

Neuchâtel , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...

– 16 September 1872) born Louis-Ami-Hercule Nicolet, was a

Swiss Swiss may refer to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland * Swiss people Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina *Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses *Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports *Swiss Internation ...

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

, natural history illustrator, librarian at ''

École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort The National veterinary school of Alfort ( or ''ENVA'') is a French public institution of scientific research and higher education in veterinary medicine, located in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris. It is operated under the superv ...

'' from 1861 to 1870, and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who specialized in

Thysanura Thysanura is the now deprecated name of what was, for over a century, recognised as an order in the class Insecta. The two constituent groups within the former order, the Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) and the Zygentoma (silverfish and fireb ...

and

Collembola Springtails (Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects (the other two are the Protura and Diplura). Although the three orders are sometimes grouped together in a class called Ento ...

. Hercule Nicolet was the son of Bénédict-Alphonse Nicolet (1743-1807). He was the business partner of Jean Coulin (1822-1883) in the lithographic firm of Hercule "Nicolet and Coulin fils", pressing the plates for ''Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel'' co-edited by

Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he rec ...

and many other geological and natural history works. He wrote ''Recherches pour Servir á l'Histoire des Podurelles.'' ''Nouv. Mém. Soc. Helvet. Sci. Nat''., 6, p.1-88 (1842) and "Essai sur une classification des insectes aptères, de l'ordre des Thysanoures" (Séance du 25 Mars 1846) in the ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'', 2e Série, Tome V, p. 335-395 (1847). He was a Member of the

Société entomologique de France The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. The society was founded in 1832 in Paris, France. The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832. The first ...

References

*Bonnet, P. 1945: ''Bibliographia Araneorum''. Toulouse 35 *Muñoz Cuevas, A. 2006: Hercule Nicolet ''Bol. Soc. Ent. Aragon. , Zaragoza'' 36: 455-458 455-458 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicolet, Hercule Swiss entomologists 1801 births 1872 deaths