Auguste Desgodins, MEP (16 October 1826, in Manheulles – 14 March 1913, in Pedong) was a French member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who attempted to enter into Tibet in the early 1860s. "China and the European Travellers to Tibet, 1860-1880"; JSTOR
While both Desgodins and his colleague, the Vicar Apostolic were granted passports to enter Lhasa, Tibet in 1861 and 1862, they were repelled from the border on multiple occasions."China and the European Travellers to Tibet, 1860-1880"; JSTOR He lived sometime in Darjeeling.
Desgodins published an essay of Tibetan grammar and was a key architect of the development of Tibetan-Latin dictionary French, which was published in 1899."Essai de grammaire Thibetaine"; Google Books
Along with Felix Biet, he founded in 1865 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church of Yerkalo. Auguste Desgodins collected butterflies for Charles Oberthur.
See also Catholic Church in Tibet
References
Oberthür, C. 1916 Lepidopterists Études de lépidoptérologie comparée, impr. Oberthür 11
Bibliography Essai de grammaire Thibétaine: pour le langage parlé avec alphabet et prononciation, Imprimerie de Nazareth, 1899 Dictionnaire Thibétain-Latin-Français: par les missionnaires catholiques du Thibet, Imprimerie de la Société des missions étrangères, 1899 La mission du Thibet de 1855 à 1870, d'après les lettres de l'abbé Desgodins, Charles H. Desgodins, 1872 Mémoires, Société académique indo-chinoise (Paris, France), A. Lorgeau, A. Biet, C. E. Bouillevaux, A. de Villemereuil, Eugène Aristide Marre, Léon Feer, G. H. J. Meyners d'Estrey (comte), Auguste Desgodins, L. M. J. Delaporte, J. Depuis, éditeur : Challamel ainé, 1879