Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (31 May 1755 – 28 June 1829) was a German

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and

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. He was born at

Etzelwang Etzelwang is a municipality in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria in Germany. History Etzelwang has existed as a parish since the second half of the 11th century. However, the present municipality of Etzelwang was not created until the Ba ...

in the

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and died at

Hersbruck Hersbruck () is a small town in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, belonging to the district Nürnberger Land. It is best known for the late-gothic artwork of the Hersbruck altar, the "Hirtenmuseum" and the landscape of Hersbruck Switzerland. ...

, near

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. He was the son of (the elder, 1729-1805), one of the most distinguished and productive of German

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s, whose ''Annales Typographici'' were published between 1793 and 1803.G.W. Panzer, ''Annales Typographici ab Artis Inventae Origine usque ad annum MDXXXVI'', 11 Vols (Impensis Joannis Eberhardi Zeh, Bibliopolae, Norimbergae 1793-1803). A

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, he practised at Hersbruck. A celebrated botanist, he had a very species-rich

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. 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 Jacob Sturm (21 March 1771 – 28 November 1848) was a leading engraver of entomological and botanical scientific publications in Germany at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. He was born and lived in Nuremberg and was th ...

(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.

Works

* 1781: Observationum Botanicarum specimen * 1783: Beytrag zur Geschichte des ostindischen Brodbaums, mit einer systematischen Beschreibung desselben … Nebst einer Kupfertafel * 1785: De dolore (Altorfi) * 1787: Versuch einer natürlichen Geschichte der Laub- und Lebermoosse nach Schmidelschen-Schreberschen und Hedwigschen Beobachtungen * 1793–1813: Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia, oder Deutschlands Insecten, 109 Teile, 2640 Kupfertafeln von Jacob Sturm, herausgegeben von Dr G. W. F. Panzer. Zweyte Auflage. ortgesetzt bis 1844 vonDr G. A. W. Herrich-Schaffer * 1794: Faunae Insectorum Americes Borealis prodomus, etc. * 1795: Deutschlands Insectenfaune oder entomologisches Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1795 * 1802: Symbolae Entomologicae … Cum tabulis XII. aeneis * 1802: Viro … venerabili G. W. Panzero parenti suo … gratulatur, simulque quaedam de D. J. G. Volcamero, … additis duabus ad illum epistolis H. Boerhaave et I. Pitt nTournefort, … exponit D. G. W. F. Panzer * 1804: Systematische Nomenclatur uber weiland … J. C. Schaeffers naturlich ausgemahlte Abbildungen regensburgischer Insekten, etc. (D. J. C. Schaefferi iconum insectorum circa Ratisbonam indigenorum enumeratio systematica opera et studio G. W. F. P.) * 1805: Kritische Revision der Insektenfaune Deutschlands (2 Bändchen) * 1813: Index entomologicus sistens omnes insectorum species in G. W. F. Panzeri Fauna Insectorum Germanica descriptas atque delineatas … adjectis … observationibus. Pars 1. Eleutherata * 1813: Ideen zu einer künftigen Revision der Gattungen der Gräser. L.P.

References

External links

Digital Faunae insectorum germanicae
Panzer and Sturm ''Faunae insectorum germanicae initia'' slideshow with sound {{DEFAULTSORT:Panzer, Georg Wolfgang Franz 1755 births 1829 deaths People from Amberg-Sulzbach German entomologists German arachnologists 18th-century German botanists Botanists with author abbreviations 19th-century German botanists 19th-century German physicians 19th-century German zoologists