Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (4 January 1740,
Basel
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– 8 June 1806,
Töss, a district in the city of
Winterthur
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) was a Swiss artist, writer and
entomologist
Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
best known for his illustrations of insects.
During his career he performed illustrative work for
Johann Heinrich Sulzer,
Johannes Gessner,
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar (or Caspar) Lavater (; 15 November 1741 – 2 January 1801) was a Switzerland, Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian.
Early life
Lavater was born in Zürich, and was educated at the ''Gymnasium (school), Gy ...
and
Johann Kaspar Füssli.
[Schellenberg, Johann Rudolf]
Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz He illustrated a number of entomological works, a few being:
* Johann Heinrich Sulzer's ''Die Kennzeichen der Insekten, nach Anleitung des Königl. Schwed. Ritters und Leibarzts Karl Linnaeus. Mit einer Vorrede des Herrn Johannes Gessners'', published in
Zurich
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in 1761.
*
Johann Jacob Roemer's ''Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata'' published in Winterthur, Steiner in 1789.
* His own ''Genres des mouches Diptères représentés en XLII planches projettées et dessinées et expliquées par deux amateurs de l'entomologie'', published in Zurich in 1803. This work has 42 plates.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
(published works)
The municipal library in Winterthur has about 4000 of his insect watercolors.[
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References
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Swiss entomologists
Swiss scientific illustrators
Dipterists
1740 births
1806 deaths
Artists from Basel-Stadt
18th-century Swiss illustrators
19th-century Swiss illustrators
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