Sylvain Auguste de Marseul

Sylvain Auguste de Marseul (January 21, 1812 in Fougerolles-du-Plessis in Normandy – April 16, 1890 in Paris) was a French Roman Catholic priest and entomologist.

He founded in 1864 a review devoted to the Coleoptera and named L'Abeille, the Bee.

On his death this publication was continued by Ernest Marie Louis Bedel (1849-1922) then by René Gabriel Jeannel (1879-1965).

The abbot also studied the history of the beginnings of French entomology in a series of review article in the Bee under the generic title Entomologistes et de leurs écrits, Entomologists and their writings (1882 to 1887).

His collection is conserved in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and his library in the Société entomologique de France.