Jacob Sturm

Jacob Sturm (21 March 1771 – 28 November 1848) was a leading engraver of entomological and botanical scientific publications in Germany at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.

[1] Sturm became a celebrated insect collector and founded the Nuremberg Society for Natural History.

His entomological and botanical plates are very accurately drawn, show minute details, and enjoyed a great popularity among naturalists.

During this period, Nuremberg was the centre of natural history book production in Germany.

He thus deliberately chose this minute format in order to make a knowledge of the German flora available by pictures to as many as possible and as cheaply as possible.