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Georg Wolfgang Knorr was a German engraver, naturalist, and one of the first paleontologists of the 18th century.
Knorr was first apprenticed to his father as a lathe operator, and at the age of eighteen became a copper engraver for Leongard Blank, working with Martin Tiroff on the illustrations for Jacob Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra (1731). This work and his acquaintance with J.A. Beurer, a mineralogist and correspondent of the Royal Society, awakened Knorr's interest in natural history.
In the 1750s Knorr began publishing his own sumptuous folios. One of the most beautiful books of the eighteenth century is devoted to sea shells.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Martersteig was a German historical and genre painter and drawing teacher. From 1828 to 1834 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Art under Ludwig Richter. Afterwards he spent four years at the academy in Dusseldorf and was a pupil of Carl Ferdinand Sohn, Theodor Hildebrandt and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow.
Friedrich Martersteig was a member and professor of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
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