Auguste Desgodins

Auguste Desgodins, MEP (16 October 1826, in Manheulles – 14 March 1913, in Pedong) was a French member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who attempted to enter into Tibet in the early 1860s.

[1] While both Desgodins and his colleague, the Vicar Apostolic Thomine-Desmazures [fr] were granted passports to enter Lhasa, Tibet in 1861 and 1862, they were repelled from the border on multiple occasions.

Desgodins published an essay of Tibetan grammar and was a key architect of the development of Tibetan-Latin dictionary French, which was published in 1899.

[3] Along with Felix Biet, he founded in 1865 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church of Yerkalo.

Auguste Desgodins collected butterflies for Charles Oberthur.