Georg Wolfgang Knorr

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Georg Wolfgang Knorr, engraving by Johann Adam Schweickart

Georg Wolfgang Knorr (also: Georgius Wolfgangus Knorrius; * December 30, 1705 in Nuremberg ; † September 17, 1761 ibid) was a German engraver and collector of fossils .

Life

In his youth he worked in his father's woodcut shop , where he learned the woodworking trade . From 1723 he studied at Johann Leonhard Blanc the copper stinging and worked with Martin Tyroff and other Nuremberg engravers at the illustration of Johann Jakob Scheuchzers Physica Sacra , which appeared in Augsburg from 1731 to 1735. Through contacts with the Nuremberg doctor and naturalist Johann Ambrosius Beurer (1716–1754) and his library and natural history cabinet , he gained extensive scientific knowledge. He also engraved portraits , landscapes, geological formations and animal studies after Albrecht Dürer and the Kilian family. He contributed to the fact that in the second half of the 18th century more was published in Nuremberg than in Augsburg. Prints from his plates were often hand-colored.

The natural history of fossils to explain the Knorrische collection of curiosities of nature was published posthumously in four volumes by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch 1768–1773 and also appeared as a Dutch (1773) and a French edition (1768–1778). It has 275 colored copper engravings by Knorr.

Fonts

  • Deliciae Naturae Selectae Or Auserlesees Naturalien Cabinet, which shows from the three realms of nature what curious lovers deserve to be kept and collected […] , 2 volumes, Nuremberg (from 1754).
  • Les Délices Des Yeux et de L'espirit, ou Collection Generale des Differentes Espèces de Coquillages (1764–1773).
  • Collection of natural treasures and antiquities of the earth which contain petrified bodies shown and described, or fossilized and other excavated Coerperin-coated copper plates , 2 volumes, A. Bieling, Nuremberg (from 1749).
  • Pleasure of the eyes and the mind, in the imagination of a general collection of snails and shells and other creatures found in the sea . Nuremberg 1757 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.39134 .
  • Thesaurus rei herbariae hortensisque universalis […] General book on flowers, herbs, fruits and gardens , 3 volumes, Nuremberg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg Wolfgang Knorr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tischlinger, p. 89
  2. ^ Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Kilian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 736-738.
  3. ↑ Tischlinger, pp. 90, 95; Knorr, Georg Wolfgang / Walch, Johann Ernst Immanuel: The natural history of petrifications to explain the Knorrische collection of curiosities of nature. Bd .: 1, Nuremberg (1773) doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-10246
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Georg Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knorrius, Georgius Wolfgangus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1761
Place of death Nuremberg