Carl Chassot de Florencourt: Difference between revisions

'''Carl Chassot de Florencourt''' (January 2, 1756 – June 14, 1790) was a [[Cameralism|cameralist]] for the [[Duchy of Brunswick|Duke of Brunswick]] who wrote on topics of mathematics and economics. He was also a naturalist who collected insect specimens.

Chassot was born in Braunschweg to Nicolaus Antonius Florencourt who worked as a forest secretary for the Duke of Brunswick, and his wife Johanna Henriette Sophie (née Roehl). Educated at the Collegium Carolinum (joined in 1775), he studied mathematics at the [[University of Göttingen]] from 1777. He then worked on mining and forestry and in 1780 he was a appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He travelled with law student Jakob Georg von Berg through Europe in 1781. In 1783 he was appointed a chamber councillor in the Harz mountains overseeing mining activity. In 1785 he published on mining in the past in ''Über die Bergwerke der Alten''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Doering, Heinrich |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BxNJAAAAcAAJ/page/n303/mode/1up |title=Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Section 1, A–G, Theil 45: Flaach–Flustra. |publisher=Gleditsch |year=1847 |place=Leipzig |chapter=Florencourt, (Karl Chassot de)|page 295}}</ref>

He collected beetles from the Göttingen area and a work on entomology was published posthumously in 1796. In this work he described the beetle ''[[Coccinella testudo]]''.