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Last Name Winterschmidt

Given Name Adam Wolfgang

alt. Names A. W. W. ; (not Adolf) ;

Marriage Ursula Magdalena Dietzsch (17xx-1817) in 1754 ;

Children 12: Christian Gottlob‏ (ca.1755-post 1809‏) ; Johann Jakob‏ (c.1755-post 1809); Johann Samuel‏ (c.1760-c.1824)

Year born 1734 / 1733 Nuremberg

Year died 1796 / 89

Place of death Nuremberg

Father's occupation dance master Georg Wolfgang Winterschmidt

Relatives father-in-law Georg Friedrich Dietzsch, schoolmaster and organist

Education dance from father

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) ; Martin Frobenius Ledermüller: Roßkastanienbaum (1764) ; Dru Drury (1725-1803): Abbildungen und Beschreibungen exotischer Insekten (Nürnberg 1785) ; K. C. Oelhafen von Schöllenbach & Johann Wolf: Wilde Bäume (1767/73-1804) ; Wilhem Friedrich Freiherr von Gleichen called Russworm (1717-1783) ; Johann Christoph Heppe (1745-1806) ; Martinus Slabber (1740-1835) ; Caspar Stoll (1xxx-1795) ;

Patronage

Collaborators J. S. Winterschmidt ; naturalist ->M. F. Ledermüller ;

Techniques botanical, entomological, natural, ichthyological, and zoological copperplate engraving ; hand-colouring of microscopic observations ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources www.bmlo.lmu.de/w0783

Published sources AKL ; NKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1161, 1589, 1591, 1892, 3862 & 4001 ; Ludwig 1998: 387-9 ; Beelen 2012: 46 ;

other Active as engraver c. 1763-1782, specialized in natural history. Publisher and musical score seller Altdorf, Mittel-Franken; lieutenant in Braunschweig. built mills, bastions & fortifications.

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