Carl Chassot de Florencourt (January 2, 1756 – June 14, 1790) was a cameralist for the Duke of Brunswick who wrote on topics of mathematics and economics.
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 travelled with law student Jakob Georg von Berg through Europe in 1781.
[1] He collected beetles from the Göttingen area and a work on entomology was published posthumously in 1796.