Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm (6 February 1805 – 24 January 1862) was a German ornithologist and engraver. He was the son of Jacob Sturm and brother of

Johann Wilhelm Sturm Johann Wilhelm Sturm (1808-1865) was Germany, German botanist. Works * With Jacob Sturm - ''Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit beschreibungen'' - Nuremberg, 1817 * Nymphaea semiaperta Klinggraff, eine fur Bayern neue pflanze ...

Biography

Sturm was born in

Nürnberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ci ...

, the eldest son of copperplate engraver Jacob Sturm and his wife Christine Albertine Wilhelmine née Wagner. He studied from 1820 to 1828 at the Nürnberg art school specializing in portraiture. His younger brother

took an interest in botany and together they helped their father in the production of books on German flora and fauna. In 1837 he married Anna Margaretha Luise née Zwinger. His plates went into several ornithological works. He received an honorary doctoral degree in 1848 from the Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. granted him the

honoris causa An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hono ...

doctoral degree.

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