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   Merian
   Matthaeus
   M. M. ; Matthäus jun. / MM / Merian the Younger / Merian der Jüngere ;
   Anthonetta Margaretha Barthels in 1652 ;
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   1621 in Basel, Switzerland
   1687
   Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, now Germany
   copper engr. ->Matthaeus Merian the Elder (1593-50), mother Maria Magdalena, née de Bry
   sister -> Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & brother ->Caspar Merian (1627-86), both illustrator & engr.
   pupil of Joachim von Sandrart in Frankfurt 1637 in Amsterdam, since 1639 Anthonis van Dyck in London, since 1641 in Paris.
   Germany
   Jan Jonston (1603-75): Historiae Naturalis, & Theatrum universale omnium animalium insectorum 1768; Historiae naturalis de insectis libri II, de serpentibus et draconibus (Moenum 1653; reissued in Amsterdam, 1657 & 1665); M Merian et al. (eds.) Topographia Germaniae & Theatrum Europaeum; possibly also collab. w. his father: Der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Nahmen/Vorhaben/ Gemählde, 1646; Lambsprinck: De lapide philosophico libellus (Frankfurt 1677); Musaeum Hermeticum (1678) ;
   
   father ->Matthaeus Merian the Elder (1593-50); sister-> Sybilla Merian; pupil ->Bartholomäus Kilian (1630-96) in Frankfurt; draughtsman ->Clemens Beuttler
   natural history and topographical drawing, copperplate engraving, and painting ; hand-colouring :
   http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Ihringen_Merian_1621.png ; http://www.hartard.de/forschung2.htm ;
   Landesbibliothek Oldenburg, Georg Friedrich Brandes collection ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matth%C3%A4us_Merian_the_Younger ;
   AKL ; Edgar Bonjour in NDB 17 (1994): 134-135 ; Nürnberger Künsterlexikon; Rudolf Wackernagel: Selbstbiographie des jüngeren M. M., in: Basler Jahrbuch 1895: 227–244 ; Daniela Nieden, Matthäus Merian der Jüngere, Diss. Univ. Freiburg im Breisgau 2002 (publ. Göttingen 2002) ; Beelen 2012: 16f. ;
   Amsterdam 1637, London 1639-41, Paris 1641, Italy 1643-7, Nürnberg. illustrations in Topographia Germaniae & Theatrum Europaeum. cf. also https://www.artnet.com/artists/matth%C3%A4us-merian/past-auction-results and https://ia800806.us.archive.org/9/items/LambsprinckAntiquiLibellusDeLapidePhilosophicorum/Lambsprinck%20antiqui%20libellus%20de%20lapide%20philosophicorum.pdf for Merian's copper plates in Lampsprinck's lapide philosophico (1677)
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