Johann Daniel Wilhelm Hartmann

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Johann Daniel Wilhelm Hartmann (born January 12, 1793 in St. Gallen ; † April 18, 1862 ibid) was a Swiss painter, engraver and malacologist .

He was the son of Georg Leonhard Hartmann (1764-1828), who was also a painter, but also a historical and scientific journalist and editor of a weekly paper for the canton of Säntis and civil servant.

After training in fine arts with his father in Zurich, Munich and Bern, he worked in St. Gallen from 1826 as a natural and miniature painter, heraldist and genealogist.

Fonts

  • Earth and freshwater gasteropods of Switzerland, with the addition of some strange exotic species. St. Gallen 1844, Archives

literature

  • Marcel Mayer: Hartmann, Johann Daniel Wilhelm. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • BB Woodward: On the dates of publication of JD Wilhelm Hartmann's “Erd- und Süsswasser-Gastropoden”, St. Gallen, 1840. In: Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7, 1906, p. 3.
  • D. Heppell: The dates of publication of JDW Hartmann's 'Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden'. In: Journal of Conchology 26, 1966, pp. 84-88.

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