Carl Gustav Calwer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German ornithologist and entomologist
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Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Carl Gustav Calwer
- Carl Gustav Calwer (11 November 1821, Stuttgart — 19 August 1874, Mineralbad Berg) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He wrote initially with the Stuttgart professor Dr Gustav Jäger Käferbuch, Naturgeschichte der Käfer Europas published by Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart a 666-page work with 50 lithographic plates all but two in colour.
- This very popular work was successively reprinted until 1916.
- Many of the fine plates were reused in Georgij Georgiewitsch Jacobson's 1905 Beetles of Russia, enabling Jacobson to focus on illustrating previously undescribed species.
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