Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant, writer, man of letters, and scientist. He was a polymath and wrote extensively on geography, natural history, and literature. Major contributions included his multi-volume natural histories of arachnids and insects, some published in collaboration with others. He was made a baron in 1823.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, entomologist, zoologist, novelist
- Position held
- arrondissement mayor, Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Prefect of Nièvre, president of the Société entomologique de France
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
