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Christian Gottlieb Geissler
Christian Gottlieb Geissler (1729 – 2 November 1814) was a German-Swiss copperplate engraver, painter and printmaker, specialising in natural history. Biography Geissler was born in 1729 in Augsburg. He moved to Geneva in about 1771 where he became a Swiss citizen. He was the son of Adam Geissler, a garden designer. Geissler is probably best known for his illustrating of ''Tabulae Phytographicae'', an encyclopaedic work published by the Zürich naturalist Johannes Gessner (1709-1790), whose natural history collection Geissler also depicted. Between 1744 and 1749 Geissler was an apprentice of the Augsburg miniaturist, Samuel Baumeister. He subsequently went to Nuremberg where he helped to illustrate :fr:Franz Michael Regenfuss, Franz Michael Regenfuss's work ''Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés''. In 1753 he travelled to Zürich to join Gessner in the production of the 24-part ''Tabulae Phytographicae'', which first appeared in 1795. Following this he moved to Geneva where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a Monotheism, monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ (title), Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' (מָשִׁיחַ) (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It does not have a meaning of 'of Christ' or 'related or pertaining to Christ'. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
