Johann Rudolph Schellenberg
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Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (January 4, 1740–1806, Basel
) was a Swiss Artist
, writer
, botanist and entomologist.
He illustrated many botanical and entomological works including 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 in 1761; Johann Jacob Roemer
's Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata published in Winterthur, Steiner in 1789 and 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.
Schellenberg described some new species of Coleoptera and Diptera
including:
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
) was a Swiss Artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, botanist and entomologist.
He illustrated many botanical and entomological works including 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 in 1761; Johann Jacob Roemer
Johann Jacob Roemer
Johann Jacob Roemer was a physician and professor of botany in Zurich, Switzerland. He was also an entomologist.With Austrian botanist Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of Carolus Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium....
's Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata published in Winterthur, Steiner in 1789 and 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.
Schellenberg described some new species of Coleoptera and Diptera
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
including: