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Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749 or 1750 - 1798) was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat.
Bruguière was born in Montpellier.
He was a doctor, connected to the University of Montpellier. His was interested in invertebrates, mostly snails.
He accompanied the explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec on his voyage to the Antarctic in 1773. In 1792, although he was ill, he visited the Greek archipelago and the Middle East, together with the entomologist Guillaume-Antoine Olivier. He died on the voyage back.
He described several taxa in the Encyclopédie Méthodique (1788-1832), which appeared even long after he had died.
He also wrote Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Vol. 1 (1792) together with Christian Hee Hwass, who wrote most of it.
He died in October 1798 (and not in 1799, as mentioned in some sources; there was a discrepancy due to the French revolutionary calendar)
Reference
- Lamy, E., 1930. Les conchyliologistes Bruguière et Hwass. Journ. de Conchyl. Vol. 74.