Louis Jurine was a Swiss physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

, surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

 and naturalist

Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

 mainly interested in entomology

Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

. He lived in Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

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Surgeon

Studies of surgery in Paris. Jurine quickly acquires a very great reputation of expert, well beyond Geneva. It gives courses of anatomy, of surgery and of zoology to the Academy, the Old people's home of Maternity in 1807 founds, gains in Paris two prices for its work over the angina pectoris (1815) and the croup (1816).

Collections

Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...

, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

 and Hemiptera

Hemiptera

Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...

 are in the Natural History Museum of Geneva

Natural History Museum of Geneva

The Natural History Museum of Geneva is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland....

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Works

• Nouvelle méthode de classer les Hyménoptères et les Diptères. Hyménoptères. Genève, J.J. Paschoud, 1807. (Only 250 copies of this work were issued.)
• Observations sur les ailes des hyménoptères Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 24 (1820): 177–214.