Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
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Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (31 May 1755 – 28 June 1829) was a German botanist and entomologist.
He was born at Etzelwang in the Upper Palatinate and died at Hersbruck, near Nuremberg. He was the son of Georg Wolfgang Panzer (the elder, 1729-1805), one of the most distinguished and productive of German bibliographers, whose Annales Typographici were published between 1793 and 1803.
A physician, he practised at Hersbruck. A celebrated botanist, he had a very species-rich herbarium.
He also assembled a very important insect collection which was the basis of a vast work Faunae insectorum germanicae initia (Elements of the insect fauna of Germany), published at Nuremberg between 1796 and 1813. Illustrated by Jacob Sturm (1771–1848), with more than 2,600 hand-colored plates of individual, lifesize insects, this work was issued in 109 parts over the 17-year period of its serial publication, a common pattern for illustrated natural history works in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Works
- 1781: Observationum Botanicarum specimen
- 1783: Beytrag zur Geschichte des ostindischen Brodbaums, mit einer systematischen Beschreibung desselben … Nebst einer Kupfertafel
- 1785: De dolore (Altorfi)
- 1787: Versuch einer natürlichen Geschichte der Laub- und Lebermoosse nach Schmidelschen-Schreberschen und Hedwigschen Beobachtungen
- 1793–1813: Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia, oder Deutschlands Insecten, 109 Teile, 2640 Kupfertafeln von Jacob Sturm, herausgegeben von Dr G. W. F. Panzer. Zweyte Auflage. [Fortgesetzt bis 1844 von] Dr G. A. W. Herrich-Schaffer
- 1794: Faunae Insectorum Americes Borealis prodomus, etc.
- 1795: Deutschlands Insectenfaune oder entomologisches Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1795
- 1802: Symbolae Entomologicae … Cum tabulis XII. aeneis
- 1802: Viro … venerabili G. W. Panzero parenti suo … gratulatur, simulque quaedam de D. J. G. Volcamero, … additis duabus ad illum epistolis H. Boerhaave et I. Pitt[on] Tournefort, … exponit D. G. W. F. Panzer
- 1804: Systematische Nomenclatur uber weiland … J. C. Schaeffers naturlich ausgemahlte Abbildungen regensburgischer Insekten, etc. (D. J. C. Schaefferi iconum insectorum circa Ratisbonam indigenorum enumeratio systematica opera et studio G. W. F. P.)
- 1805: Kritische Revision der Insektenfaune Deutschlands (2 Bändchen)
- 1813: Index entomologicus sistens omnes insectorum species in G. W. F. Panzeri Fauna Insectorum Germanica descriptas atque delineatas … adjectis … observationibus. Pars 1. Eleutherata
- 1813: Ideen zu einer künftigen Revision der Gattungen der Gräser. L.P.