Baron Michel Edmond de Selys Longchamps was a Belgian Liberal Party politician and scientist. Selys Longchamps has been regarded as the founding figure of odonatology, the study of the dragonflies and damselflies. Wikipedia
Born: May 25, 1813, Paris, France
Died: December 11, 1900 (age 87 years), Liège, Belgium
Party: Liberal Party
Parents: Michel-Laurent de Selys Longchamps and Marie-Denise Gandolphe