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Jacob Sturm

1771 - 1848

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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 only son of engraver Johann Georg Sturm (1742-1793), who trained him in drawing and copperplate engraving. Sturm became a celebrated insect collector and founded the Nuremberg Society for Natural History. His entomological and botanical plates are very accurately drawn, show minute details, and enjoyed a great popularity among naturalists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Sturm is the 657th most popular biologist (down from 578th in 2019), the 3,939th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,961st in 2019) and the 133rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jacob Sturm ranks 657 out of 1,097. Before him are José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Charles Frédéric Girard, Wilhelm Hofmeister, James Francis Stephens, Leonhard Stejneger, and Sabiha Kasimati. After him are Pál Kitaibel, Ferdinand Albin Pax, Paul Nurse, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Archibald Reiss, and Charles Alexandre Lesueur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Jacob Sturm ranks 39. Before him are Pierre Baillot, Vincenzo Camuccini, Charles Athanase Walckenaer, Józef Chłopicki, Jean Reynier, and Karl Rudolphi. After him are Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, George Bass, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Heinrich Zschokke, Charles Brockden Brown, and Pierre-François Bouchard. Among people deceased in 1848, Jacob Sturm ranks 47. Before him are Ludwig Leichhardt, Robert Blum, Manto Mavrogenous, Pellegrino Rossi, Felix Lichnowsky, and Jaime Balmes. After him are Petrobey Mavromichalis, Martinus Rørbye, George W. Campbell, Steen Steensen Blicher, Pedro Vélez, and Vasily Stasov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacob Sturm ranks 3,941 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838), Joachim Camerarius (1500), Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1805), Mato Kósyk (1853), Max von Schillings (1868), and Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (1852). After him are Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia (1976), Emil Welti (1825), Ernst Albrecht (1907), Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790), Albert Kahn (1869), and Ludwig Bieberbach (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Jacob Sturm ranks 133. Before him are Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), and Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824). After him are Archibald Reiss (1875), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733).

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