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Last Name Giltsch

Given Name Adolf

alt. Names A. G. ; Dr. phil. h. c. A. G. ;

Marriage

Children 2 sons: lithographer -> Eduard Giltsch II (1xxx-1xxx) ; lithographer N. N. (1xxx-1xxx)

Year born 1852

Year died 1911

Place of death Jena

Father's occupation printer and lithographer -> Eduard Giltsch I

Relatives

Education apprentice to father Giltsch Lith. Anstalt Jena (at age 14); trained by Haeckel

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Haeckel: System Medusen (1879) & Kunstformen (1899ff.) ; Wyville Thomson John Murray ; J. G. Kerr ; F. Keibel ; H. Friese: Europ. Bienen ; Joh. Walther: Korallenriffe Sinaihalbinsel (1888) ; Johann Friedrich Theodor (called Fritz) Müller (1822-1897) ;

Patronage Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft of Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Jena

Collaborators artist and illustrator -> A. Kirkpatrick Maxwell ; Ernst Haeckel on altogether more than 400 large color plates ; photographer E. Meisenbach ;

Techniques botanical, marine, anatomical, zoological, and natural chromolithography, colour drawing, and micrography ;

Sample(s) http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Haeckel_Lacertilia.jpg http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.de/2009/04/art-forms-in-nature.html ;

Archival sources Haeckel's obit.:Jen.Zeitung 1911: zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jparticle_00156226 ; digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kunstchronik1911/0263/ocr

Published sources Haeckel: Radiol. for Challenger Reports ; Nick Hopwood: hist. plates embryol. Int., in: J. Dev. Biol. 58 (2007): 1-26 ; Lapage 1961: 30f. ; AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Dopplereffekt 2010: 166-8 ;

other Portait in Olaf Breidbach's preface to Haeckel Kunstformen 1998: 12.

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