Carl Geyer
Encyclopedia
Carl Geyer was a German
entomologist who wrote and illustrated various supplements to Jacob Hübner
s works on Lepidoptera
.
Carl Geyer was , by profession an artist
. He is not to be confused with Charles Andreas Geyer
(1809-1853), a botanist and plant collector.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
entomologist who wrote and illustrated various supplements to Jacob Hübner
Jacob Hübner
Jacob Hübner was a German entomologist. He was the author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge , a founding work of entomology.-Scientific career:...
s works on Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
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Carl Geyer was , by profession an artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. He is not to be confused with Charles Andreas Geyer
Karl Andreas Geyer
Karl Andreas Geyer was a German botanist who was a native of Dresden.As a teenager, Geyer worked as an apprentice-gardener in Zabeltitz, and in 1830 became an assistant at the botanical gardens in Dresden. From 1835 to 1844 he performed botanical studies on several expeditions within the United...
(1809-1853), a botanist and plant collector.
External links
- Carl Geyer (1796–1841) mentioned in Jacob Hübner's biography: Neue Deutsche Biographie, vol. 9, 1972, p. 720 (in German)