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Last Name Sellow

Given Name Friedrich

alt. Names F. S. ; Sello / Frederick / Frederico Sellow ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1789 in Potsdam

Year died 1831

Place of death Rio Doce in Brazil

Father's occupation court gardener Carl Julius Samuel Sello (1757-1796)

Relatives court gardener family Sello in Berlin / Potsdam

Education taught by Johann Wilhelm Sello (1756-1822)

Country of Activity Brazil

Worked for Maximilian Alexander Philipp Prinz zu Wied (1782-1867) ;

Patronage Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) ; Georg Heinrich Baron von Langsdorff (1774-1852) ;

Collaborators Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812) ;

Techniques botanical, zoological, ethnographical, and architectural drawing

Sample(s) http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Bildergalerien-Region/Ein-Potsdamer-erforscht-Brasilien/06_Tapir-Sellow

Archival sources http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Sello ; www.hofgaertner-sello.de/FriedrichSello.shtml

Published sources Zischler, Hackethal & Eckert: Die Erkundung Brasiliens. Friedrich Selllows unvollendete Reise (Berlin 2013) ; Sabine Hackethal: Sellow, Friedrich, in: NDB 24, Berlin 2010: 225-6 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Germany, France (Paris), UK (London), the Netherlands, Brazil, and Uruguay. URL: http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/sammlungen/historische-arbeitsstelle/transkription-der-reisetagebuecher-friedrich-sellows/.

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