Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer

German botanist and entomologist

Date of Birth: 31-May-1755

Place of Birth: Etzelwang, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1829

Profession: botanist, entomologist, arachnologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer

  • Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (31 May 1755 – 28 June 1829) was a German botanist and entomologist. He was born at Etzelwang in the Upper Palatinate and died at Hersbruck, near Nuremberg.
  • He was the son of Georg Wolfgang Panzer (the elder, 1729-1805), one of the most distinguished and productive of German bibliographers, whose Annales Typographici were published between 1793 and 1803.A physician, he practised at Hersbruck.
  • A celebrated botanist, he had a very species-rich herbarium. He also assembled a very important insect collection which was the basis of a vast work Faunae insectorum germanicae initia (Elements of the insect fauna of Germany), published at Nuremberg between 1796 and 1813.
  • Illustrated by Jacob Sturm (1771–1848), with more than 2,600 hand-colored plates of individual, lifesize insects, this work was issued in 109 parts over the 17-year period of its serial publication, a common pattern for illustrated natural history works in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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