George Meyer-Darcis

Background

Georges Meyer-Darcis was the son of a world famous straw goods manufacturer (Sogin & Meyer).

Education

From 1875 to 1878 he was educated in the Technical Department of the cantonal school in Aarau.

Career

After a commercial apprenticeship in Geneva, he managed the straw goods factory. In Geneva, he collected insects in his spare time encouraged by the curator of the Entomological collections of the University of Geneva Doctor Emil Frey-Gessner (1826-1917). In addition to his own collections he purchased world Coleoptera and plant collections, including one by Johann Luzi Krättli (1812-1903), which he then presented to the Botanical Museum of the University of Zurich.

Some parts of his beetle collection were sold to the French entomologist René Oberthür and are now preserved in the Muséum national d"Histoire naturelle, Paris.

Connections

Friend:

Samuel Döbeli