Jakob Wilhelm Roux was a German painter and draughtsman

Draughtsman

A draughtsman or draftsman , is a person skilled in drawing, either:*drawing for artistic purposes, or*technical drawing for practical purposes such as architecture or engineering...

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Roux was born to a Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...

 family. He studied mathematics for a time at the University of Jena. He later enrolled in the university of Christian Immanuel Oehme where his interests and classes turned to the arts. It was while studying there that he met the surgeon Justus Christian Loder

Justus Christian Loder

Justus Ferdinand Christian Loder was a German anatomist and surgeon who was a native of Riga.In 1777 Loder earned his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen, and the following year was appointed professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Jena, where he would practice medicine...

, with whom he collaborated with. Roux did a number of anatomical illustrations for Loder.

Roux later primarily painted portraits. He was first married in 1801 to Pauline Johanna Heyligenstädt, and they had two daughters and a son together. Two years after she died in 1823, Roux re-married to Charlotte Mariana Wippermann. They had two sons together. He died in Heidelberg in 1830.

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