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Last Name De Bry

Given Name Johann Theodor

alt. Names J. T. B. ; de Brey / de Bruy / de Breh / Jan Theodor de Bry / Jean Theodor ;

Marriage

Children 2 daughters: Maria-Magdalena (Merian) (1573 / 1619-1645) and Margarethe Elisabeth de Bry (1573 / 1627-16xx)

Year born 1561 in Strasbourg, Alsace, now France

Year died 1623

Place of death Bad Schwalbach, Taunus, Hessen, now Germany

Father's occupation copper engraver, goldsmith, and editor ->Theodor / Dirk de Bry (1528-1598)

Relatives printer Johann Israel (1565-1609) (brother) ; engraver and publisher ->Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) ; engraver Matthäus Merian Sr. (son-in-law)

Education taught by his father

Country of Activity Belgium

Worked for Jean-Théodore de Bry: Historiae americanae (1591) ; Florilegium Novum (1612-18) ; Caspar Bauhin: Theatrum anatomicum (1621) ; Thomas Harriot: Virginia (1590) ;

Patronage colonialist Jean Ribault ; colonialist Renbé de Laudonnière ;

Collaborators father ; brother J. I. de Bry ;

Techniques topographical, botanical and natural copperplate engraving, etching, and painting

Sample(s) http://art-links.livejournal.com/1650995.html

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Theodor_de_Bry ; http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=1300&-max=25 ;

Published sources AKL 14 1996: 620 ; ThB 5 1911: 162 ; Bryan ; Benezit ; Geck 1982: 49 ;

other Also known as a publisher, active in Oppenheim 1609, in Frankfurt 1619.

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