Alexander Yersin (entomologist)

Not to be confused with Alexandre Yersin.

Jean-Alexandre-Marc Yersin (5 April 1825, in Morges – 2 September 1863, in Lavaux) was a Swiss entomologist.

Jean-Alexandre-Marc Yersin was a teacher and entomologist. His entomological interests included Dermaptera and Orthoptera. The grasshopper species Yersinella Raimondi was so named in his honor in 1860. Yersin had tree childs with his wife Fanny Moschell. He died three weeks bevor the birth of Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin who became famous for having discovered the causative agent of the plague, the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Apparently the famous son developped his interest on biology at the age of eight years discovering and inspecting his fathers collection of insects. This collection is now conserved in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna) and in the Natural History Museum of Geneva. His publications include Sur quelques Orthoptères nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de la France Bull. Soc. vaud. Hist. nat., 8 p., 1 plate (1854) and Note sur quelques Orthoptères nouveaux ou peu connus d'Europes Ann. Soc. ent. Fr., pp. 509–537, pl. 10 (1860).

References

• Forel, A.. 1864 [Yersin, A.] Bull. Soc. vaud. Sci. nat., Lausanne 8 228-234
• Hollier, J. A. 2007 An annotated list of the species described by Alexandre Yersin (1825?1863) and of the Yersin type material housed in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle in Geneva. Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., Zürich 80 : 71-77 B15 10201
• Saussure, H. de 1866 [Yersin, A.] Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., Zürich 2 [1866-68] 75-106, Portrait.

External links

• Senckenberg World of Biodiversity Biografien der Entomologen der Welt