Jacob Sturm

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Jacob Sturm (1771 -1848) was the most famous engraver of entomological and botanical scientific publications in Germany at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. He lived in Nurenburg

Sturm became a celebrated insect collector and founded the Nürnberg Society for Natural History. His entomological and botanical plates are very accurately drawn and show minute details and enjoyed a great popularity among naturalists. As most of his works were published in a small format, they could be purchased by a larger public and they were very popular.During this period, Nürnberg was the centre of natural history book production in Germany.

"The book Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Nürnberg, gedrückt auf Kosten der Verfassers,1798-1862. 163 parts (in 136 volumes) contains... neat and attractive little engravings, no more than 5 in. by 3 1/2 in. in size... He thus deliberately chose this minute format in order to make a knowledge of the German flora available by pictures to as many as possible and as cheaply as possible. Despite their smallness, they carry a surprising amount of detail. Jacob Sturm learnt his art from his father, Johann Georg Sturm, who was also a Nuremberg engraver" (Blunt & Stearn p.258-260).

[edit] Some works illustrated by Jacob Sturm

la Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen (de 1796 à 1862) avec 2 472 gravures illustrant des textes de J.C.D. von Schreber, D.H. Hoppe, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (1793-1879) et d’autres ;
la traduction en allemand de l’Entomologie de Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756-1814) par Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775-1813), Abbildungen zu Karl Illigers Uebersetzung von Oliviers Entomologie (1802-1803, Nuremberg) ;
Beschreibung der Gräser nebst ihren Abbildungen nach der Natur de J.C.D. von Schreber (1766-1779, Leipzig) ;
Deutschlands Insectenfaune et Kritische Revision der Insectenfaune Deutschlands... de G.W.F. Panzer (Nuremberg, 1805-1806) ;
Catalecta Botanica quibus Plantae Novae et Minus Cognitae Describuntur atque Illustrantur d’Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757-1834) (trois volumes, Leipzig, 1797-1806) ;
Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt (Leipzig, 1820-1838) et Revisio Saxifragarum Iconibus Illustrata (Regensberg, 1810-1822, Leipzig, 1831) du comte K.M. von Sternberg ;
System der Pilze und Schwämme (Wurbzerg, 1816) et Bryologia Germanica, oder Beschreibung der in Deutschland und in der Schweiz wachsenden Laubmoose (Nuremberg, 1823-1831) de C.G.D. Nees von Essenbeck ;
Caricologia Germanica, oder Beschreybungen und Abbildungen aller in Deutschland wildwachsenden Seggen (Nüremberg, 1835) de D.H. Hoppe.