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Germany. Son of Johann Georg Sturm.
Nuremberg engraver Sturm was the son of Johann Georg Sturm, also a Nuremberg engraver. Jacob Sturm was the most famous engraver of natural history publications in Germany at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century.
Engraver for C.Gaertnerís Supplement to De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1805-1807). Jakob Sturm was a major engraver for Deuschlands Flora during the 1800s.
Also listed as a Diptera taxonomist ?
Sources: M.Rix The Art of the Plant World (1981); W.Blunt & W.T.Stearn The Art of Botanical Illustration 2nd
edn (1994); H.Hewson (1999).
George, Alex (2011) A Banksia Album – two hundred years of botanical art, National Library of Australia, Canberra
Portrait: Google Images, dates and names checked 2012.