About Johann Georg Sturm
Lived 1742 – 1793 (aged 50–51). Johann Georg Sturm was a German botanical illustrator and copper engraver.
Johann Georg Sturm (1742–1793) was a German natural history illustrator noted for the plates in Joseph Gaertner's De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum, and for co-authoring Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen. He was the father of Jacob Sturm (1771–1848), a noted entomologist, who engraved the illustrations for the supplement to De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum.
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Who was Johann Georg Sturm?
German illustrator (1742–1793)
When was Johann Georg Sturm born?
Johann Georg Sturm was born in 1742 in Nuremberg.
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Johann Georg Sturm died on 9 April 1793 in Nuremberg.
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Johann Georg Sturm was a botanical illustrator and copper engraver.
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Johann Georg Sturm was German.
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