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Last Name Hoffer

Given Name Andreas

alt. Names A. H. ; Hofer ;

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Year born 1736 fl.

Year died 1780 fl.

Place of death

Father's occupation

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Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Johann Friedrich Esper (1732-1781): Zoolithen unbekannter vierfüsiger Thiere Markgrafthums Bayreuth (1774) ; Georg Wolfgang Knorr: Deliciae naturae secta (1766-7) ; Christoph Jacob Trew ; Johann Christian Daniel Schreiber: Säugethiere ; Georg Wolfgang Knorr: Allgemeine Blumen Kräuter (1750ff.) ; Verlustiging der oogen (Amsterdam) ;

Patronage

Collaborators natural historian Georg Wolfgang Knorr ; artist ->Jacques de Sève ; engraver ->V. Bischoff ; engraver->J. A. Eisenmann ; engraver ->J. A. Joninger ;

Techniques botanical, mineralogical, mammal, malacological, and natural copperplate engraving

Sample(s) www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/dokumente/15025/

Archival sources Senckenberg Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main; Johann David Schoepf papers, Humboldt-Univ.Berlin.

Published sources AKL ; ThB 17 124: 238 ; Nissen 1953/76 ; Nagler 1838: 222 ; Franz Hodes & Ernst Berninger: Ad Bibliothecam Senckenberg 1968: 41 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1318, 2236f., 3393 & 37489 ;

other Worked in Nuremberg and Augsburg.

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