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   Becker
   Ludwig Philipp Heinrich
   L. P. H. B. ; Ludwig Becker ;
   
   
   1808 in Offenbach-on-Main near Darmstadt
   1861
   Koorliatto Waterhole on the Bulloo River, Australia
   civil service position as a lotto director for the Archduke of Hesse-Darmstadt, Ernst Friedrich Becker
   Amona Eleanora Becker, née Weber (1785 c. - 1819) (mother) ; Johanette Christiane Weber (stepmother and aunt?) ; August Becker (half brother)
   Trained as an illustrator by his mentor Johann Kaup, studied lithography under Peter Vogel in Frankfurt;
   Australia
   Robert O'Hara Burke: State Victoria expedition ; Heinrich Ludwig Broenner ; John Macadam ; Prof. Frederick McCoy in Melbourne ; Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Müller (1796-1896) ; Johann Jacob Kaup: Galerie Amphibien 1826 & Thierreich Hauptformen systemat. 1835-7 ; August Klipstein 1834-6 ;
   court painter to the Arch Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt ; Lady Denison ;
   ->John Gould ; ->Charles Stone ; ->William Purcell ; lithographer ->Rudolf Hofmann for Kaup & Klipstein 1834-6 (signed "H & B") ; naturalist and zoologist -> Johann Jakob Kaup (1803-1873) ;
   botanical, zoological, and ichthyological drawing, painting, and lithography ;
   http://museumvictoria.com.au/caughtandcoloured/becker2.aspx ;
   http://museumvictoria.com.au/caughtandcoloured/becker.aspx ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/becker-ludwig.html ;
   AKL 8 1994, 171 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Langer 1978: 372 ; Rudwick 1992: 70f., 264 & n30f. ; Tipping, Marjorie (1917-2009): Ludwig Becker. Artist and Naturalist with the Burke and Wills Expedition (Carlton, VIC: Melbourne University Press, 1979) ; Kerr, J.: The Dictionary of Australian Artists (1992) ; Darragh, Thomas A[lwynne] (*1940): Ludwig Becker, a Scientific Dilettante, in: Historical Records of Australian Science 11 (4), 1997: 501-522 ; Kynaston, Edward: A man on edge. A life of Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller (Ringwood, VIC ; London: Allen Lane, 1981) ;
   Further Places of Activity: Germany; 1851 Launceston via England and Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia.

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   181812096
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