Giuseppe De Cristoforis

Portrait bust of Giuseppe De Cristoforis made by Abbondio Sangiorgio.

Giuseppe De Cristoforis (or De Cristofori) (11 October 1803, Milan – 27 December 1837, also Milan) was an Italian naturalist and collector.

Also known as Joseph de Cristoforis or Giuseppe Cristofori was an entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He was a natural history and insect dealer in Milan.

His collections, merged with those of Giorgio Jan (1791-1866), were the basis of Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Milan. He bequeathed them to the city in 1832 on the condition that the municipality created a natural history museum curated by his friend Giorgio Jan.[1][2]

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  1. Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75 : 159-382. ISSN 0037-8747
  2. Translated from French Wikipedia
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