Édouard Piaget

Édouard Piaget (3 November 1817 in Les Bayards – 10 September 1910 in Couvet) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in lice (Phthiraptera).

As a young man, Piaget became a teacher of French at Mr. de Raedt's Instituut Noorthey [nl], an upper class boarding school in the Netherlands.

After obtaining a doctorate in Roman Law at Leiden University he remained in the Netherlands but did not practice law as a profession, working instead as a private tutor until 1844, when he was appointed teacher of French and History at the Gymnasium Erasmianum in Rotterdam.

Piaget's collection of lice (Pédiculines) was obtained from animals in the Zoological Gardens at Rotterdam and from skins in the Naturalis in Leiden.

His entomological collection, herbarium, and library were given to the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in Neuchâtel.