Toussaint von Charpentier (22 November 1779 – 4 March 1847) was a German geologist and entomologist.
Toussaint von Charpentier was born in Freiberg, Saxony ( 22 November 1779 and died in Brieg 4 March 1847.
[1] In the year 1802 Charpentier went to Prussia, where he accepted a place with the Silesia Oberbergamt (upper mining authority) in Breslau.
In the year 1836 he transferred to the Silesian mining authority in the same capacity.
He published between 1829 and 1830 a new edition of the publications Die europäischen Schmetterlinge and Die ausländischen Schmetterlinge with Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper.