Author: Pfeuffer, E. (Ed.)
Title: Von der Natur fasziniert: Frühe Augsburger Naturforscher und Zeichner
Description: Wissner 2004 192, 166 col illus.. . HB. NEW. . Text German. This book looks at the achievements of the important natural historians living in Augsburg in the 18th and 19th centuries, and introduces the reader to the wealth of botanical and zoological illustrations which thanks to the work of these men, have survived until today: Jacob Hübner (1761-1826), Lepidopterist; Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811); Christian Friedrich Freyer (1794-1885), Lepidopterist; Johann Friedrich Leu (1808-1882), Ornithologist, taxidermist and draughtsman; Andreas Wiedemann (1824-1896); Jakob Friedrich Caflisch (1817-1882), Botanist. [9783896393920]

Keywords: 13002; Augsburg; Bavaria; Botanical Illustration; Botany; Entomology; Europe; Germany; History of Natural History; Lepidoptera; Ornithology; Zoological Illustration


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