Henri Stempffer
Henri Stempffer was a French entomologist who specialized in the study of Lycaenidae butterflies.
Biography
Stempffer was born on 23 January 1894 in Paris, at 19 rue de Charonne.In 1922, he became a member of the French Entomological Society and subscribed to the entomological publication of Léon Lhomme, L'Amateur de papillons.
He then was working at the Banque de France .
In 1954 he became a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London.
He specialized in the study of Lycaenidae and became a specialist publishing his work in both French and English. In 1967 he wrote a major review of the African species
In 1973 he received the Karl Jordan Medal of the Lepidopterists' Society.
In 1977 he donated his collection to the entomology laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History of Paris.
Although he was a specialist of the African fauna, he had never been in Africa, but he visited many countries as Italy, Greece, and Yugoslavia. In 1972, at the invitation of Torben B. Larsen, he visited Lebanon.
During the Second World War he was part of the resistance movement and received the Ordre de la Libération in 1944.
Stempffer died on 1 November 1978 in Paris, at 4 rue Saint-Antoine.
Works
He wrote about 90 publications.The complete list has never been published. Apart from his huge monograph already cited, he published many works in many different journals such as:
- Contribution à l'étude des Lycaenidae de l'Afrique équatoriale, 1953-1961.
- Contribution à l'étude des Lycaenidae de la faune éthiopienne, 1942-1969.
- Les Lépidoptères de l'Afrique Noire Française. 3. Lycaenidae, 1957.