Johann Daniel Wilhelm Hartmann (12 January 1793 – 18 April 1862) was a

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, engraver and

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Biography

He was born in

St. Gallen , neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach , twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic) , website ...

, the son of Georg Leonhard Hartmann (1764-1828), who was also a painter. After training in fine arts with his father in Zurich, Munich and Bern, he worked in St. Gallen from 1826 as a naturalist and miniature painter, heraldist and genealogist. Taxa described by Hartmann include '' Discus ruderatus'', '' Ampullaceana ampla'', '' Trochulus clandestinus'', '' Bythiospeum acicula'', '' Papillifera'' and others.

Works

*Hartmann, J. D. W. 1821. ''System der Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden Europa's: in besonderer Hinsicht auf diejenigen Gattungen, welche in Deutschland und der Schweitz angetroffen werden''. Nürnberg,

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 the ...

, 1821 *Hartmann, J. D. W. 1844. ''Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit Zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten''. I. Band. - pp. i-xx 1-20 1–227, Tab. I-XII 1-12 I-XII ic, = 13-24 25–84. St. Gallen. (Scheitlin & Zollikofer
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References

Sources

* *B. B. Woodward, 1906: ''On the dates of publication of J. D. Wilhelm Hartmann's "Erd- und Süsswasser-Gastropoden"'', St. Gallen, 1840. ''Proceedings of the

Malacological Society of London The Malacological Society of London is a British learned society and charitable organisation concerned with malacology, the study of molluscs, a large phylum of invertebrate animals divided into nine or ten taxonomic classes, of which two ar ...

'' 7, 1906 *D. Heppell,1966: ''The dates of publication of J. D. W. Hartmann's "Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden"''. ''

Journal of Conchology The ''Journal of Conchology'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, covering research in conchology and malacology. It claims to be the world's oldest continuing publication on t ...

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