Henri Bertrand (entomologist)

Henri Bertrand (19 January, 1892 – 1 September, 1978) was a French entomologist.

[1] Bertrand obtained the qualification licence de sciences naturelles at the University of Bordeaux in 1912 then a certificat d'histologie in 1920 from the University of Paris and a doctorate in sciences in 1927.

In 1936, he worked at the marine biology station in Dinard where he specialised in crustaceans.

In 1944, he worked as a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) then at l'École pratique des hautes études.

In 1918 Bertrand published Larves et Nymphes des Dysticides Hygrobiides et Haliplides; then in 1954 a two-volume work Insectes aquatiques d'Europe and in 1972 his last work, 804 pages on the Larves et Nymphes des coléoptères aquatiques du globe.