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Last Name Tyroff

Given Name Hermann Jakob

alt. Names H. J. T. ; Jacob Herm. Tyroff ;

Marriage Christiana Sophia Bock (1749-1792) in 1767 ;

Children 5: 4 sons 1 daughter

Year born 1742 in Nuremberg

Year died 1786

Place of death Nuremberg (Johannisfriedhof)

Father's occupation engraver and art dealer Martin Tyroff (1704 or 1705-1758or 1759)

Relatives wedding manager and corporal Johann Bock (1730 c. -1757 after) (father-in-law) ; ...

Education engraving from father ;

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Josef Gaertner (1732-1791): De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1801-1807) ; Jacob Christian Schaeffer (1718-1790) ; Johannes Zorn (1739-1799) ; Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761): Allgemeine Blumen (1750) ; Johann Christian Daniel Schreber (1739-1810) ; Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesarae Naturae Curiosorum (volume 9, 1818-1863) ;

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Techniques botanical, pomological, natural, paleontological, fossil, and entomological drawing and copperplate engraving ;

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Archival sources http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/tyroff-hermann.html ;

Published sources AKL ; NKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 2231-36, 3629, 3748 & 4535a ;

other Further relatives: engraver Christoph Wilhelm Bock (1754 or 1755-1835) (brother-in-law) and engraver son Johann Carl Bock the Younger (1757-1843) (brother-in-law).

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