Walbaum is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Johann Julius Walbaum
Johann Julius Walbaum (30 June 1724 – 21 August 1799) was a German physician, natural history, naturalist and fauna taxonomist.
Works
Walbaum was from Greifswald. As an ichthyologist, he was the first to describe many previously unknown fish s ...
(1724–1799), German physician, naturalist and taxonomist
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Johannes Walbaum
Johannes Walbaum (born February 18, 1987, in Neuss) is a German association football, footballer who plays for :de:FC Wegberg-Beeck, FC Wegberg-Beeck. He previously played for Fortuna Düsseldorf
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1987 births
Living people
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(born 1987), German footballer
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Justus Erich Walbaum
Justus Erich Walbaum (25 January 1768 – 21 June 1837) was a German typefounder and punchcutter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Walbaum was a punchcutter, who carved steel punches used as a master to stamp matrices, the moulds used to ...
(1768-1837), German type designer and
punchcutter
Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type. Steel punches in the shape of the letter would be used to stamp matrices into copper, which were locked into a mould sh ...
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Walbaum (typeface)
Walbaum is the name given to serif typefaces in the "Didone" or modern style that are, or revive the work of early nineteenth-century punchcutter Justus Erich Walbaum (1768–1837), based in Goslar and then in Weimar.
Walbaum-style typefaces ar ...
, the
Didone typeface named after him.
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German-language surnames